H. G. Wells 4 hr 21 min read

The impecunious Mr. Bedford and the eccentric Mr. Cavor build a sphere coated in gravity-defying Cavorite and voyage to the Moon, a hollow world ruled by the insectoid Selenites.

H. G. Wells's 1901 novel is a classic of early science fiction and lunar adventure. Visionary, witty, endlessly imaginative. Read it for the father of modern SF at his most inventive, a marvelous voyage to a living Moon, a satirical vision of an ant-like civilization, and one of the great first-contact stories ever written.

In its time

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

Reading it

4 hr 21 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).