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conversations.value: Provide a plot for a book about Cavor, Bedford, Selenites entitled The First Men in the Moon.
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conversations.value: The First Men in the Moon: The narrator is a London businessman who withdraws to the countryside to write a play, by which he hopes to alleviate his financial problems.\nBedford rents a small countryside house in Lympne, in Kent, where he wants to work in peace.\nHe is bothered every afternoon, however, at precisely the same time, by a passer-by making odd noises.\nAfter two weeks Bedford accosts the man, who proves to be a reclusive physicist named mr Cavor.\nBedford befriends Cavor when he learns he is developing a new material, cavorite, which can negate the force of gravity.\nWhen a sheet of cavorite is prematurely processed, it makes the air above it weightless and shoots off into space.\nBedford 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".\nCavour 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.\nOn the way to the moon, they experience weightlessness, which Bedford finds "exceedingly restful".\nOn 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.\nBedford and Cavor leave the capsule, but in romping about get lost in the rapidly growing jungle.\nThey hear for the first time a mysterious booming coming from beneath their feet.\nThey encounter "great beasts", "monsters of mere fatness", that they dub "mooncalves", and five-foot-high "Selenites" tending them.\nAt first they hide and crawl about, but growing hungry partake of some "monstrous coralline growths" of fungus that inebriate them.\nThey wander drunkenly until they encounter a party of six extraterrestrials, who capture them.\nThe insectoid lunar natives (referred to as "Selenites", after Selene, the moon goddess) are part of a complex and technologically sophisticated society that lives underground, but this is revealed only in radio communications received from Cavor after Bedford\'s return to earth.\nBedford and Cavor break out of captivity beneath the surface of the moon and flee, killing several Selenites.\nIn their flight they discover that gold is common on the moon.\nIn their attempt to find their way back to the surface and to their sphere, they come upon some Selenites carving up mooncalves but fight their way past.\nBack on the surface, they split up to search for their spaceship.\nBedford finds it but returns to Earth without Cavor, who injured himself in a fall and was recaptured by the Selenites, as Bedford learns from a hastily scribbled note he left behind.\nChapter 19, "Mr.\nBedford in Infinite Space", plays no role in the plot but is a remarkable set piece in which the narrator describes experiencing a quasi-mystical "pervading doubt of my own identity.\nthe doubts within me could still argue: \'It is not you that is reading, it is Bedford—but you are not Bedford, you know.\nThat\'s just where the mistake comes in.\n\' \'Counfound it.\n\' I cried, \'and if I am not Bedford, what am I.\nBut in that direction no light was forthcoming, though the strangest fancies came drifting into my brain, queer remote suspicions like shadow seem from far away.\nDo you know I had an idea that really I was something quite outside not only the world, but all worlds, and out of space and time, and that this poor Bedford was just a peephole through which I looked at life.\n".\nBy good fortune, the narrator lands in the sea off the coast of Britain, near the seaside town of Littlestone, not far from his point of departure.\nHis fortune is made by some gold he brings back, but he loses the sphere when a curious boy named Tommy Simmons climbs into the unattended sphere and shoots off into space.\nBedford writes and publishes his story in The Strand Magazine, then learns that "Mr.\nJulius Wendigee, a Dutch electrician, who has been experimenting with certain apparatus akin to the apparatus used by mr Tesla in America", has picked up fragments of radio communications from Cavor sent from inside the moon.\nDuring a period of relative freedom Cavor has taught two Selenites English and learned much about lunar society.\nCavor\'s account explains that Selenites exist in thousands of forms and find fulfillment in carrying out the specific social function for which they have been brought up: specialization is the essence of Selenite society.\n"With knowledge the Selenites grew and changed; mankind stored their knowledge about them and remained brutes—equipped," remarks the Grand Lunar, when he finally meets Cavor and hears about life on Earth.\nUnfortunately, Cavor reveals humanity\'s propensity for war; the lunar leader and those listening to the interview are "stricken with amazement".\nBedford infers that it is for this reason that Cavor has been prevented from further broadcasting to Earth.\nCavor\'s transmissions are cut off as he is trying to describe how to make cavorite.\nHis final fate is unknown, but Bedford is sure that "we shall never… receive another message from the moon".
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conversations.value: Provide a plot for a book about Bedford, Moon, Hogben entitled The First Men in the Moon.
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conversations.value: The First Men in the Moon (1919 film): The synopsis from The Bioscope trade paper of 5 June 1919 reads as follows: In the company of Rupert Bedford, a grasping speculator, Samson Cavor, an elderly inventor-scientist, ascends to the Moon in a sphere coated with 'Cavorite', a substance which has the property of neutralizing the law of gravity.\nAfter strange adventures with the 'Selenites' (the inhabitants of the Moon), Bedford villainously deserts the professor and returns to Earth alone in order to make a fortune for himself out of Cavorite.\nSusan thereupon indignantly rejects the proposals of Bedford, who has represented it as Cavor's last wish that she should marry him, and, instead, accepts Hogben as her husband.
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conversations.value: The First Men in the Moon (1919 film): The synopsis from The Bioscope trade paper of 5 June 1919 reads as follows: In the company of Rupert Bedford, a grasping speculator, Samson Cavor, an elderly inventor-scientist, ascends to the Moon in a sphere coated with 'Cavorite', a substance which has the property of neutralizing the law of gravity. \nAfter strange adventures with the 'Selenites' (the inhabitants of the Moon), Bedford villainously deserts the professor and returns to Earth alone in order to make a fortune for himself out of Cavorite. \nBy means of wireless telegraphy, however, Hogben, a young engineer in love with Cavor's niece, Susan, succeeds in getting in touch with the stranded inventor, who denounces Bedford and states that he has been amicably received by the Grand Lunar, overlord of the Selenites. \nSusan thereupon indignantly rejects the proposals of Bedford, who has represented it as Cavor's last wish that she should marry him, and, instead, accepts Hogben as her husband.
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conversations.value: Provide a plot for a book about Bedford, Cavor, Selenites entitled The First Men in the Moon.
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conversations.value: The First Men in the Moon (2010 film): It is July 1969 as 90-year-old Julius Bedford (Rory Kinnear) tells young Jim (Alex Riddell) the story of two men who made the first journey to the moon in 1909.\nHe relates that when he was a young man, he met Professor Arthur Cavor (Mark Gatiss) at Apuldram.\nCavor had invented 'Cavorite', a substance that blocked the force of gravity.\nBedford encouraged Cavor to think of the profits his invention might bring, and they worked together to build a cast iron sphere that would fly them to the moon.\nThe explorers are captured with nets by the moon's inhabitants (whom Cavor names Selenites), who knock them out with sticks.\nCavor and Bedford find themselves in a perilous state after Bedford accidentally kills some Selenites with his greater strength.\nCavor remains behind to give Bedford time to reach the spacecraft and escape.\nBedford almost crashes the spacecraft into the Sun, but recovers and lands close to home at West Wittering.\nHis hopes of returning to the moon to rescue Cavor are dashed when the passer-by Chessocks (Lee Ingleby) accidentally takes off in the craft.\nBedford does not know how to produce Cavorite and cannot produce another craft.\nCavor remains in captivity and teaches the Selenites the English language and some of mankind's history; he also teaches them the recipe for Cavorite.\nThe Selenites determine that mankind is a threat to the moon and decide to use Cavorite to make a pre-emptive strike.\nIn desperation, Cavor communicates his intentions to Bedford by wireless, then releases all the Cavorite that the Selenites have produced.\nThis causes the moon's atmosphere to escape into space; over time, the surface is reduced to barren wasteland, as rediscovered by the Apollo program.\nThe final shot reveals a Selenite observing the Apollo 11 landing.