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dc.contributor.authorWells, H. G. (Herbert George)-
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-04T04:06:26Z-
dc.date.available2022-03-04T04:06:26Z-
dc.date.issued2016-
dc.identifier.urihttps://tlor.svkos.cz/handle/123456789/366-
dc.description.abstractThe First Men in the Moon is a scientific romance by the English author H. G. Wells, originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from December 1900 to August 1901 and published in hardcover in 1901, who called it one of his "fantastic stories". The novel tells the story of a journey to the Moon undertaken 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". The inspiration seems to come from the famous 1870 book by Jules Verne From the Earth to the Moon, and the opera by Jacques Offenbach from 1875. In that opera the word "selenites" is used for the first time for moon inhabitants.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherProject Gutenbergen_US
dc.relation.urihttps://www.gutenberg.org/files/1013/1013-h/1013-h.htmen_US
dc.rightsPUBLIC DOMAIN This work is in Public Domain and no exclusive intellectual property rights apply to it in the countries of this e-library project. These rights has expired or been forfeited. Anyone can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking a permission. Still, who would like to use this text or quote a part of it, he or she is obliged to cite its author and source.en_US
dc.subjectscience fictionen_US
dc.subjectsci-fien_US
dc.subjectcosmic travelsen_US
dc.subjectvoyagesen_US
dc.subjectMoonen_US
dc.subjectastronautsen_US
dc.subjectnovelen_US
dc.titleThe First Men in the Moonen_US
dc.typeBooken_US
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