The First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells audiobook. Genre: scifi Britain won the Moon Race! Decades before Neal Armstrong took his 'giant leap for mankind' two intrepid adventurers from Lympne, England, journeyed there using not a rocket, but an antigravity coating. Mr. Bedford, who narrates the tale, tells of how he fell in with eccentric inventor Mr. Cavor, grew to believe in his researches, helped him build a sphere for traveling in space, and then partnered with him in an expedition to the Moon. What they found was fantastic! There was not only air and water, but the Moon was honeycombed with caverns and tunnels in which lived an advanced civilization of insect-like beings. While Bedford is frightened by them and bolts home, Cavor stays and is treated with great respect. So why didn't Armstrong and later astronauts find the evidence of all this? Well, according to broadcasts by Cavor over the newly-discovered radio technology, he told the Selenites too much about mankind, and apparently, they removed the welcome mat! Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:36:54) Chapter 2 (00:54:17) Chapter 3 (01:12:20) Chapter 4 (01:21:25) Chapter 5 (01:34:46) Chapter 6 (01:44:23) Chapter 7 (01:55:47) Chapter 8 (02:05:11) Chapter 9 (02:25:07) Chapter 10 (02:37:15) Chapter 11 (03:00:51) Chapter 12 (03:11:05) Chapter 13 (03:27:28) Chapter 14 (03:39:43) Chapter 15 (04:03:08) Chapter 16 (04:20:26) Chapter 17 (04:42:47) Chapter 18 (05:02:10) Chapter 19 (05:26:45) Chapter 20 (05:43:46) Chapter 21 (06:15:45) Chapter 22 (06:24:43) Chapter 23 (06:42:40) Chapter 24 (07:22:50) Chapter 25 (07:58:25) Chapter 26 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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