The First Men in the Moon

A failed businessman rents a lonely bungalow on the Kent marshes to write a play. The neighbour turns out to be a physicist who has made a substance that screens gravity, and you play Bedford, who sees the money in it long before he sees the danger. Sixty-eight chapters: a sphere, a landing, air that arrives with the sunrise, and a civilisation under the crust with a use for everyone born into it.

Chapters

1. The Play at LympneLympne Bungalow
2. Thirteen Evening WalksLympne Ridge Path
3. The Stranger at the GateCavor's House and Laboratory
4. A Substance Against WeightCavor's Laboratory
5. Gibbs and the FurnaceCavor's Work-Shed
6. October FourteenthLympne Field and Ruined Laboratory
7. Roofless ScienceLympne Ruins and Bungalow
8. Steel, Glass, and ShuttersLympne Bungalow and Laboratory
9. The Lower HemisphereTemporary Sphere Laboratory
10. The Moon Reckoned WithLympne and Canterbury
11. March AssemblyTemporary Sphere Laboratory
12. The Last Earthly NewspaperInside the Cavorite Sphere
13. Down Loses Its MeaningThe Cavorite Sphere in Space
14. Earth AboveThe Cavorite Sphere in Space
15. The Growing MoonThe Cavorite Sphere Near the Moon
16. Frozen AirLunar Crater in the Cavorite Sphere
17. Sunrise in the CraterLunar Crater beside the Sphere
18. Brandy and Low GravityLunar Crater outside the Sphere
19. The Bayonet ForestSunlit Lunar Crater
20. Where the Sphere Had BeenBayonet Forest
21. Booms and BellowsBayonet Forest
22. The Mooncalf PastureMooncalf Pasture
23. The Yellow FungusFungus Thicket
24. After the FungusSelenite Holding Chamber
25. Chains in the DarkSelenite Holding Chamber
26. The Selenite's FaceBlue-Lit Holding Chamber
27. Geometry in the DarkSelenite Holding Chamber
28. Food Between WorldsSelenite Holding Chamber
29. Experiments in GestureSelenite Industrial Cavern
30. Cold Blue MachineryGreat Machine Cavern
31. The GoadOuter Industrial Cavern
32. The Downward TunnelDescending Selenite Tunnel
33. The Giddy BridgeBridge above the Lunar Abyss
34. The World BelowAbyss Edge beneath the Moon
35. The Second GoadLedge Above the Central Gulf
36. The Pale LightPale-Lit Fissure
37. Beneath the GratingAscending Lunar Fissure
38. Workers Above the GratingWorkers' Cavern above the Grating
39. Pursuit at the GratingLower End of the Butchers' Cavern
40. The Jacket DecoyUpper Butchers' Cavern
41. The Spiral to DaylightGreat Ventilation Shaft
42. Late Sun Over the CraterLate-Afternoon Lunar Crater
43. What Earth Would BringRidge Above the Outer Tunnel
44. The White HandkerchiefSearch Marker on the Crater Ridge
45. West of the HandkerchiefLiterary Agent's Office - Recollected Moon
46. A Spark at SunsetLiterary Agent's Office - Recollected Moon
47. The Loaded SphereLiterary Agent's Office - Recollected Moon
48. The Cap on the RockLiterary Agent's Office - Recollected Moon
49. The Damaged PageLiterary Agent's Office - Recollected Moon
50. The First SnowflakeLiterary Agent's Office - Recollected Moon
51. The Hundred LeapsLiterary Agent's Office - Recollected Moon
52. Alone at the StudsLiterary Agent's Office - Recollected Moon
53. The Cargo in the VoidLiterary Agent's Office - Recollected Space
54. The Uncertain CourseLiterary Agent's Office - Recollected Space
55. Weeks Without WeightLiterary Agent's Office - Recollected Space
56. The Upper AirLiterary Agent's Office - Recollected Earthfall
57. The Unknown SandbankUnknown Sandbank at Dawn
58. Two Bars of GoldLittlestone Beach
59. The Boy with the BicycleLittlestone Hotel
60. The Locked Hotel RoomLiterary Agent's Office - Recollected Hotel
61. After LittlestoneLiterary Agent's Office
62. A Letter in AlgiersMonte Rosa Observatory - Algiers Letter
63. Monte RosaWendigee's Observatory
64. Broken English from SpaceMonte Rosa Record Room
65. A World Made for WorkMonte Rosa Record Room
66. The Grand LunarMonte Rosa Record Room
67. InterferenceMonte Rosa Observatory
68. The Last FragmentMonte Rosa Observatory

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