The first men in the moon
H.G. Wells

Complete and unabridged.

The First Men in the Moon by the English author H. G. Wells is a scientific romance.

The novel recounts a journey to the Moon by the two protagonists: a businessman narrator, Mr. Bedford; and an eccentric scientist, Mr. Cavor. Bedford and Cavor discover that the Moon is inhabited by a sophisticated extraterrestrial civilisation of insect-like creatures they call “Selenites”.