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! (Summary by Mark)
Mr. Bedford Meets Mr. Cavor at LympneThe First Making of CavoriteThe Building of the sphereInside the SphereThe Journey to the MoonThe Landing on the MoonSunrise on the Moon.A Lunar Morning.Prospecting Begins.Lost Men in the MoonThe Mooncalf PasturesThe Selenite's FaceMr. Cavor Makes Some SuggestionsExperiments in intercourseThe Giddy BridgePoints of ViewThe Fight in the Cave of the Moon ButchersIn the SunlightMr. Bedford AloneMr. Bedford in Infinite SpaceMr. Bedford at LittlestoneThe Astonishing Communication of Mr. Julius WendigeeAn Abstract of the Six Messages First Received from Mr. CavorThe Natural History of the SelenitesThe Grand LunarThe Last Message Cavor Sent to the Earth
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