Though modern-day readers may find some of the scientific concepts quaint and outdated, the plot and characters more than make up for any such shortcomings. A scandal erupted when Wells was accused of plagiarism by an Irish writer, but no evidence was found for the charges. The book probably launched a whole new genre of sci-fi horror fiction and has had a huge influence on films, TV, stage, animation, video-games and comics. Scholars have dubbed The First Men in the Moon as the first alien dystopia, where the denizens of another world are hostile to humans. What follows is classic sci-fi with a twist of romance. However when they get there, they discover that the moon is not an uninhabited satellite as was hitherto assumed. Together the two launch into a moon voyage. Bedford is excited by this and immediately sees the commercial value of Cavorite. With the aid of this material, he plans to explore space and wants to undertake an experimental journey to the moon. The man is a physicist named Cavor who has developed a novel new anti-gravity material that he has named Cavorite. With Edward Judd, Martha Hyer, Lionel Jeffries, Miles Malleson. A mysterious stranger accosts him and insists on sharing a brilliant scientific discovery with Bedford. First Men in the Moon: Directed by Nathan Juran. However, strange events interrupt his progress. When penniless businessman Mr Bedford retreats to the Kent coast to write a play, he meets by chance the brilliant Dr Cavor, an absent-minded scientist on the brink of developing a material that blocks gravity. He moves to a lonely cottage in Kent where he hopes to come up with a theatrical masterpiece. Businessman and budding playwright, John Bedford takes a sabbatical from his work and decides to write a play.

The First Men in the Moon by Herbert George Wells, the English author who is today called the Father of Science Fiction, describes a strange and fantastic voyage.

Written nearly seven decades before Neil Armstrong's historic “Giant leap for Mankind” this book by one of the most influential sci-fi writers in English is an interesting read. It is my purpose in this paper to trace in some detail the many places in the Ransom trilogy where Lewis is specifically in debt to Wells’s The First Men in the Moon (henceforth designated FMM).

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