In their attempt to find their way back to the surface and to their sphere, they come upon some Selenites carving up mooncalves but fight their way past. In their flight they discover that gold is common on the Moon. The insectoid lunar natives (referred to as "Selenites", after Selene, the moon goddess) are part of a complex and technologically sophisticated society that lives underground, but this is revealed only in radio communications received from Cavor after Bedford's return to Earth.īedford and Cavor break out of captivity beneath the surface of the Moon and flee, killing several Selenites.
They wander drunkenly until they encounter a party of six extraterrestrials, who capture them. At first they hide and crawl about, but growing hungry partake of some "monstrous coralline growths" of fungus that inebriate them. They encounter "great beasts", "monsters of mere fatness", that they dub "mooncalves", and five-foot-high "Selenites" tending them. They hear for the first time a mysterious booming coming from beneath their feet.
Bedford and Cavor leave the capsule, but in romping about get lost in the rapidly growing jungle. On the surface of the Moon the two men discover a desolate landscape, but as the Sun rises, the thin, frozen atmosphere vaporises and strange plants begin to grow with extraordinary rapidity. On the way to the Moon, they experience weightlessness, which Bedford finds "exceedingly restful". Cavor hits upon the idea of a spherical spaceship made of "steel, lined with glass", and with sliding "windows or blinds" made of cavorite by which it can be steered, and persuades a reluctant Bedford to undertake a voyage to the Moon Cavor is certain there is no life there. Bedford sees in the commercial production of cavorite a possible source of "wealth enough to work any sort of social revolution we fancied we might own and order the whole world". When a sheet of cavorite is prematurely processed, it makes the air above it weightless and shoots off into space. Bedford befriends Cavor when he learns he is developing a new material, cavorite, which can negate the force of gravity. After two weeks Bedford accosts the man, who proves to be a reclusive physicist named Mr. He is bothered every afternoon, however, at precisely the same time, by a passer-by making odd noises. Bedford rents a small countryside house in Lympne, in Kent, where he wants to work in peace. Wells, not knowing what happened to Cavor, wrote a fictionalized account of his expedition.The narrator is a London businessman named Bedford who withdraws to the countryside to write a play, by which he hopes to alleviate his financial problems. Due to the connection between space, time and gravity, which Cavor was unaware of, his cavorite-coated ship was transported to the 23rd century and flung into deep space. It is revealed that Cavor did indeed invent cavorite, but he did not travel to the moon. In the photo comic The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner, the USS Enterprise, commanded by Captain Pike, encounters a ship floating in space and the crew are surprised to discover that its occupant is Professor Cavor, who was previously believed to be a fictional character.
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