H. G. Wells 4 hr 53 min read

An impoverished inventor discovers a gravity-defying substance and, with a down-on-his-luck companion, flies a sphere to the Moon, where a whole civilization waits beneath the surface.

This Finnish edition presents H. G. Wells's 1901 'The First Men in the Moon,' his classic of lunar exploration and the insectile Selenite society. Wonder-filled, satirical, foundational. Read it for one of Wells's great scientific romances, a witty and imaginative voyage to a living Moon.

In its time

Published in 1901, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

4 hr 53 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).