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For Science!: Cavor's entire motivation.Some provide illumination, and some are hallucinogenic.

Fungus Humongous: They grow underground in the Moon's lower gravity.

Fan Sequel: The Martian War, wherein the martians from The War of the Worlds conquer the selenites.

Falling into the Cockpit: At the end of the story, the interplanetary sphere takes off soon after the narrator left it on a beach, and he immediately suspects a kid they passed by on the way (and who is later reported missing) of having stepped inside and accidentally activated the sphere's Anti-Gravity.

Dilating Door: The Selenites' lunar iris is a physically huge example of one.

Cavor desperately wants the voyage to be this trope, but events conspire to prevent this.

Cool Starship: Cavor's polyhedral spaceship is not only the first spaceship it's the first spaceship with curtains.Cephalothorax: The Grand Lunar is a gargantuan brain attached to an atrophied, unused body.Bold Explorer: When Joseph Cavor discovers a material that blocks gravity, he quickly decides to set off and explore the moon.Put a sheet of it between yourself and the Earth and you're weightless - or, rather, you're now in the weak gravitational grip of the Moon. Anti-Gravity: Cavorite blocks gravity.It is noted in-universe that Lunars conduct eugenics to produce Lunars specific to a societal purpose. Aliens Never Invented Democracy: The moon's civilization is ruled by the Grand Lunar, who holds that office by virtue of having the biggest brain.This scene was also included in the 2010 movie, except here it's an adult who accidentally launches the sphere. Accidental Astronaut: Near the end of the story, after Bedford has been forced to leave Cavor behind on the moon and barely made it back to Earth in the sphere they designed, a curious boy enters the sphere and activates it, sending him off into space, and leaving Bedford with no way of ever going back to retrieve Cavor.In his opening chapters Wells plays around briefly with the ideas and implications of the substance but he soon casts it aside in order to explore his imagined selenite society inside the moon.Ĭavorite also appears in the first collection of the Alan Moore comic book The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, it is used here as the newest gain in technology which our heroes seek to keep from reaching the hands of evil.

The idea has not spread widely in SF, as opposed to the idea of propulsion, as demonstrated in the cannon which shoots travellers to the moon in Jules Verne's earlier work, From the Earth to the Moon. Or the production of cavorite may require an amount of energy which then dissipates as the cavorite is used. The idea of a substance impervious to gravity is likely to violate the second law of thermodynamics, since it implies that objects could be moved without using energy. Cavorite is also opaque to heat, light and electric waves. The protagonists in the novel create a sphere of cavorite in which they travel to the moon. Cavorite is a substance which is able to negate the effects of gravity, making objects shielded by cavorite weightless. In the book Wells' scientist character Mr Cavor creates and names this fantastic material. Cavorite is a fictional substance first described in the novel The First Men in the Moon by H.G.