Everybody knows HG Wells is a popular science-fiction writer. Most people know of him through a few of his stories that have been produced as popular movies such as "The Time Machine", and "The War of the Worlds." However HG Wells was really more of a philosopher and a quasi-scientist than he was a writer.
This is one of his lesser known science fiction stories published in 1901. However as with most science fiction the story is only a vehicle to carry HG's philosophy and commentary on his Victorian Society to the reader. The story has many false starts and stops but takes the time to comment on such subjects as can a person actually be satisfied with a one-dimensional job?
Knowing that this was pre-Einstein it may be possible to believe in the technology and theories of the time. And then again as with many science-fiction or fantasy stories HG may have just been taking liberalities with realities.
One cute touch in this story is that the characters comment on Jules Vern's story of the man in the moon.
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Bedford bankrupt businessman who is making a comeback by writing a play, through a series of circumstances, teams up with Professor Cavor a recluse scientist who does not realize his own potential. Together they build a contraption, sphere, that can cut off gravity waves. What can they do with such a device? You guessed it! Let's all traveled to the moon.
Once on the moon Bedford and Cavor find that they are not alone. After a few adventures they are detained by the Moonies referred to mostly in this story as Selenites. The daring duo is restrained with chains of gold. Cavor looks at this is a reasonable precaution and also looks forward to communicating with the strange creatures. Bedford is more practical and knows what chains mean. This means it's time to escape an escape they do.
Will they be able to make it back to Earth and warn the people of the strange creatures? Or will they be caught and who knows what may happen to them in the long run.
Keep reading and learn of the society and nature of the Selenites.
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The First Men in the Moon (Oxford World's Classics) ペーパーバック – 2017/1/12
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H. G. Wells
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Simon J. James
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'My next clear recollection is that we were prisoners at we knew not what depth beneath the moon's surface ...
At the village of Lympne, on the south coast of England, the 'most uneventful place in the world' the failed playwright Mr Bedford meets the brilliant inventor Mr Cavor, and together they invade the moon.
Dreaming respectively of scientific renown and of mineral wealth, they fashion a sphere from the gravity-defying substance Cavorite and go where no human has gone before. They expect a dead world, but instead they find lunar plants that grow in a single day, giant moon-calves and the ant-like Selenites, the super-adapted inhabitants of the Moon's utopian society.
The First Men in the Moon is both an inspired and imaginative fantasy of space travel and alien life, and a satire of turn-of-the-century Britain and of utopian dreams of a wholly ordered and rational society.
At the village of Lympne, on the south coast of England, the 'most uneventful place in the world' the failed playwright Mr Bedford meets the brilliant inventor Mr Cavor, and together they invade the moon.
Dreaming respectively of scientific renown and of mineral wealth, they fashion a sphere from the gravity-defying substance Cavorite and go where no human has gone before. They expect a dead world, but instead they find lunar plants that grow in a single day, giant moon-calves and the ant-like Selenites, the super-adapted inhabitants of the Moon's utopian society.
The First Men in the Moon is both an inspired and imaginative fantasy of space travel and alien life, and a satire of turn-of-the-century Britain and of utopian dreams of a wholly ordered and rational society.
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- 出版社Oxford Univ Pr
- 発売日2017/1/12
- 言語英語
- 寸法19.3 x 12.7 x 1.52 cm
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One of my favorite movies!
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This is one of my favorite movies. Not totally believable but an entertaining yarn. Fascinating me as a kid. Glad to add it to my collection. Arrived quickly and plays well.
Norman Hall
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Woo-Hoo !!
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A great, entertaining film that doesn't take itself overly seriously. In Dynamation, to boot !!
* I wish they still made them.
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* I wish they still made them.
* a great gift for a collector or enthusiast. BUY !!
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* I wish they still made them.
* a great gift for a collector or enthusiast. BUY !!
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The Moon is a piece of cheese and a lovely one
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Ever since having read Mr Wells' short stories, I have been very much impressed by his imaginative power as a Victorian genius. In this novella, his brilliance shines like moonshine.
The idea of going to the moon was not new even in his time in the late 19th C yet Mr Wells' brilliance lies in fleshing out the amazing journey with surprises and suspense. The introduction of Prof. James is very detailed in tracing such a theme in the long history of fiction writing. He has written extensively on Mr Wells.
The ending of the story was revised many times by the author and such revision is not reprinted here. Editorial non-intervention is thoughtful because the story is in better shape artistically.
I find this novella extremely useful, entertaining and thought-provoking. It seems to me that Mr Wells did not just concern himself with telling a good story. Actually he was more serious when he gave a very descriptive account of how the lunar inhabitants had been organized. By extension, how the earthly society should be organized or have been organized if to avert the impending doom he foresaw.
Other than the strength of the introduction, there is one more merit for this OUP edition: its improved paper quality. (its world classics printed and re-issued before 2008 with pulp paper are easily yellowed.)
The idea of going to the moon was not new even in his time in the late 19th C yet Mr Wells' brilliance lies in fleshing out the amazing journey with surprises and suspense. The introduction of Prof. James is very detailed in tracing such a theme in the long history of fiction writing. He has written extensively on Mr Wells.
The ending of the story was revised many times by the author and such revision is not reprinted here. Editorial non-intervention is thoughtful because the story is in better shape artistically.
I find this novella extremely useful, entertaining and thought-provoking. It seems to me that Mr Wells did not just concern himself with telling a good story. Actually he was more serious when he gave a very descriptive account of how the lunar inhabitants had been organized. By extension, how the earthly society should be organized or have been organized if to avert the impending doom he foresaw.
Other than the strength of the introduction, there is one more merit for this OUP edition: its improved paper quality. (its world classics printed and re-issued before 2008 with pulp paper are easily yellowed.)
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Sehr zu empfehlen für jeden, der gerne in der Sonne liegt und sich dabei gut unterhalten lassen möchte!
Sehr zu empfehlen für jeden, der gerne in der Sonne liegt und sich dabei gut unterhalten lassen möchte!
Bob in Edmonton
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great old movie
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This is an old classic, with a great story and humorous characters.