The First Men in The Moon, H.G. Wells
The First Men in The Moon, H.G. Wells
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The First Men in The Moon

Author: H.G. Wells

Narrator: Geoffrey Giuliano and the Icon Players

Unabridged: 7 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/17/2020


Synopsis

Britain won the Moon Race! Decades before Neal Armstrong took his "giant leap for mankind" two intrepid adventurers from Lympne, England, journeyed there using not a rocket, but an antigravity coating. Mr. Bedford, who narrates the tale, tells of how he fell in with eccentric inventor Mr. Cavor, grew to believe in his researches, helped him build a sphere for traveling in space, and then partnered with him in an expedition to the Moon. What they found was fantastic! There was not only air and water, but the Moon was honeycombed with caverns and tunnels in which lived an advanced civilization of insect-like beings. While Bedford is frightened by them and bolts home, Cavor stays and is treated with great respect. So why didn't Armstrong and later astronauts find the evidence of all this? Well, according to broadcasts by Cavor over the newly-discovered radio technology, he told the Selenites too much about mankind, and apparently, they removed the welcome mat!

Produced by Devin Lawrence

Edited by Macc Kay

Production executive Avalon Giuliano

ICON Intern Eden Giuliano

Music By AudioNautix With Their Kind Permission

©2020 Eden Garret Giuliano (P) Eden Garret Giuliano

Geoffrey Giuliano is the author of over thirty internationally bestselling biographies, including the London Sunday Times bestseller Blackbird: The Life and Times of Paul McCartney and Dark Horse: The Private Life of George Harrison. He can be heard on the Westwood One Radio Network and has written and produced over seven hundred original spoken-word albums and video documentaries on various aspects of popular culture. He is also a well known movie actor.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul on August 01, 2024

Social commentary and great adventure! Mr Bedford, a recently bankrupt Victorian gentleman has retired to the English countryside to recover his spirit and write a play. He meets Dr Cavor, an eccentric, quaintly comical scientific genius researching the preparation of a compound he calls "Cavorite" t......more

Goodreads review by Paul on January 30, 2025

The first thing to notice with regard to this 1901 science-fiction novel by H.G. Wells is the great author’s peculiar choice of prepositions. “The First Men in the Moon” – not on, but in. This phraseology, of course, goes against the way we of the modern world would ordinarily talk about a trip to t......more

Goodreads review by Cindy on September 26, 2023

We will be doing an episode of The Literary Life Podcast On this surprising influence on CS Lewis’s space trilogy. Quite an easy and fun read.......more

Goodreads review by Thibault on October 21, 2022

A businessman and an eccentric scientist shoot themselves to the moon, where they encounter an insect-like alien species that lives beneath the surface. The science might be outdated but both the entertainment factor and the important message it tries to deliver still very much stand to this day.......more