The First Men in the Moon

The First Men in the Moon is a scientific romance by the English author H. G. Wells (Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946)), 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».