Greg Wagland is an excellent narrator of HG Wells (and maybe other authors as well!) - I'm definitely going to look for some of his other work here. But the structure is a bit odd and the end surprisingly open-ended. It's a short, fast, entertaining tale, with a surprising amount of humor. In the process, Bedford proves that he's mainly interested in Number One Cavor, with his endlessly inquiring mind, bridges the gap and begins exchanging information with the "Selenites" - or, less formally, the "Moonies" - until they learn that one of the major industries on earth is the manufacture of weapons of war: and that gold, one of the commoner metals on the moon, is prized on earth above life itself. They are captured, they try to communicate, they try to escape. What they find is that an ant-like race lives under the moon's surface, in a massive nest of tunnels that goes hundreds of miles down. Wells became a prolific writer with a diverse output, of which the famous works are his science fiction novels. After an education repeatedly interrupted by his family’s financial problems, he eventually found work as a teacher at a succession of schools, where he began to write his first stories. Wells wrote many strange tales, and this is one of the stranger. Wells was born in Bromley, Kent, in 1866. In a sphere they build, they end up on the moon. When penniless businessman Mr Bedford retreats to Kent to write a play, he encounters Dr Cavor, an absent-minded scientist who has invented a material that. Bedford the somewhat unscrupulous businessman (and would-be playwright) joins forces with his neighbor, an eccentric scientist named Cavor, who is developing a metal that can repel gravity.
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