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The First Men in the Moon

By: H. G. Wells
Narrated by: Geoffrey Giuliano, The Icon Players
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Summary

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!

Produced by Devin Lawrence

Edited by Macc Kay

Production executive Avalon Giuliano

ICON intern Eden Giuliano

Music by AudioNautix with their kind permission

Geoffrey Giuliano is the author of more than 30 internationally best-selling biographies, including the London Sunday Times best seller Blackbird: The Life and Times of Paul McCartney and Dark Horse: The Private Life of George Harrison. He can be heard on the Westwood One Radio Network and has written and produced more than 700 original spoken-word albums and video documentaries on various aspects of popular culture. He is also a well-known movie actor.

©2020 Geoffrey Giuliano (P)2020 Geoffrey Giuliano
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Just, ugh.

good story, but the plot is explained by the opening narrator, who bangs on for the first 10 minutes telling you every plot point before saying "but I don't want to spoil the story for you." Add the almost half asleep narration in the story, just get any other version and do yourself a favour

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