The First Men in the Moon

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Herbert George Wells was a British author, that was prolific in many genres of literature, he wrote more than fifty novels and dozens of short stories. His non-fiction works of literature include works of social commentary, politics, history, popular science, satire, biography, and autobiography. The author's science fiction novels are so favorably regarded that he is considered the father of science fiction and the originator of this genre. The First Men in the Moon is the author's magnum opus, his main work, it is a scientific romance, originally published in 1901 by the George Newnes. The novel tells the story of a journey to the Moon undertaken by the two protagonists, a businessman, that acts as the narrator, and an eccentric scientist. They discover that the Moon is inhabited by a sophisticated extraterrestrial civilisation of Selenites, with whom they try to communicate and come to terms. This is not just a facsimile of the first edition, whereas a facsimile comes with the defects, that copies of the original edition incurred over the past centuries, this exact replica of the original first edition is what readers held in their hands when they purchased the original first edition at the turn of last century. If you are looking for original science fiction, you have found it, this book is definitely the most original science fiction novel ever written.

Specificaties
ISBN/EAN 9789464813555
Auteur Herbert George Wells
Uitgever Pumbo.nl B.V.
Taal Engels
Uitvoering Gebonden in harde band
Pagina's 378
Lengte 198.0 mm
Breedte 126.0 mm

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