The First Men in the Moon

When Mr. Bedford, a bankrupt businessman hiding out in the Kent countryside, befriends the eccentric scientist Mr. Cavor, he stumbles into the discovery of the century: Cavorite, a substance that blocks gravity itself. Together they build a glass sphere and fly to the Moon, where frozen air melts at sunrise, a strange jungle springs up in hours, and beneath the surface lies a vast hidden world of the insect-like Selenites and their ruler, the Grand Lunar. H. G. Wells's 1901 classic is a thrilling, funny and haunting voyage of wonder and one of the founding novels of science fiction.