The First Men in the Moon

H. G. Wells

⏱ 8 minScience fiction

An eccentric scientist invents a substance that defeats gravity, and with a stranded businessman flies to the Moon, into its airless dawn, its living jungle, and the insect civilization in the caverns below. Wells's classic lunar voyage.

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