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The First Men in the Moon
H. G. Wells
出版
Random House Publishing Group
, 2007-12-18
主題
Fiction / Science Fiction / Hard Science Fiction
Fiction / Classics
Fiction / Science Fiction / Action & Adventure
ISBN
0307432203
9780307432209
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=-CbJSGIVgKYC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
“Why do people read science fiction? In hopes of receiving such writing as this—a ravishingly accurate vision of things unseen; an utterly unexpected yet necessary beauty.” So says Ursula K. Le Guin in her Introduction to
The First Men in the Moon
, H. G. Wells’s 1901 tale of space travel. Heavily criticized upon publication for its fantastic ideas, it is now justly considered a science fiction classic.
Cavor, a brilliant scientist who accidentally produces a gravity-defying substance, builds a spaceship and, along with the materialistic Bedford, travels to the moon. The coldly intellectual Cavor seeks knowledge, while Bedford seeks fortune. Instead of insight and gold they encounter the Selenites, a horrifying race of biologically engineered creatures who viciously, and successfully, defend their home.