The enabling premise of the story is that Cavor has invented a new material - “Cavorite” - that shields the gravitational force, such that if the material comes between an object and the earth, the object becomes weightless. We are not completely outclassed in the comparison. It is an adventure story, an engaging speculation on the pitfalls of cross-cultural communication, and, by presenting an alien civilization as a foil, a meditation on human society and culture. There they discover, not a barren wasteland, but a strange world inhabited by an alien race of intelligent cave-dwelling creatures. By means of a quaint device he sends Cavor, a brilliant but eccentric scientist, and Bedford, an unimaginative but practical man of the world, to the moon. In The First Men in the Moon, Wells gives us a romance of exploration and discovery with dark undertones.
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