FIRST MEN IN THE MOON (H.G. Wells)
Above cover by Ballantine Books, Inc., 1964
DISCUSSION
Unique to the above edition of H.G. Wells's classic science fiction space
novel is the cover painting. The artist has a pair of astronauts suited
in the technology of the 1960s with the fantastic "cavorite" spaceship of
Wells's Victorian era. The craft looks more like a deep sea diving vessel
than a Moon rocket. The many viewing ports and landing legs are
included to compensate for the absence of an orientation control system.
Imagine Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin having landed (or more appropriately
"rolled down") in the pictured spaceship. Their survival would have been
more miraculous than Wells's invention of the antigravity material
"cavorite."
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