![]() ![]() Bedford and Cavor leave the capsule, but in romping about get lost in the rapidly growing jungle. On the surface of the moon the two men discover a desolate landscape, but as the sun rises, the thin, frozen atmosphere vaporizes and strange plants begin to grow with extraordinary rapidity. On the way to the moon, they experience weightlessness, which Bedford finds "exceedingly restful". ![]() Cavor hits upon the idea of a spherical spaceship made of "steel, lined with glass", and with sliding "windows or blinds" made of cavorite by which it can be steered, and persuades a reluctant Bedford to undertake a voyage to the moon Cavor is certain there is no life there. Bedford sees in the commercial production of cavorite a possible source of "wealth enough to work any sort of social revolution we fancied we might own and order the whole world". ![]() ![]() When a sheet of cavorite is prematurely produced, it makes the air above it weightless and shoots off into space. Bedford befriends Cavor when he learns he is developing a new material, cavorite, that can negate the force of gravity. After two weeks Bedford accosts the man, who proves to be a reclusive physicist named Mr. He is bothered every afternoon, however, at precisely the same time, by a passer-by making odd noises. Bedford rents a small countryside house in Lympne, in Kent, where he wants to work in peace. The narrator is a London businessman who withdraws to the countryside to write a novel by which he hopes to alleviate his financial problems. ![]()
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