FIRST MEN IN THE MOON CAVORITE SPHERE FULL

Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale: Despite Cavor mentioning that the moon is 250,000 miles away, they make the journey in an unspecified, but nonetheless shorter space of time than it would take.Public Domain Artifact: Cavorite (often in lower case) has been adopted as a standard anti-gravity material in scores of sci-fi stories.This is especially true of the Grand Lunar, whose exposed brain takes up most of the ceiling space in his cathedral-like throne room.

My Brain Is Big: Members of the Selenite aristocracy are identifiable by their massively oversized brains.

Lightworlder: Well, the Selenites are from the moon, where the gravity is lower, after all.Interplanetary Voyage: Bedford and Favor discuss setting up interplanetary routes (with Bedford being primarily interested in the shipping and mining possibilities), but the only location they end up visiting on the test flight is the Moon.Male ants are simply drones for procreation and usually die after fertilizing the queen. Insect Gender-Bender: the Grand Lunar and the common worker Selenites are referred to as male despite being said to be similar to ants.They are often considered the Trope Maker. Insectoid Aliens: The Selenites, each of whom fulfills a specific specialized role in lunar society.

FIRST MEN IN THE MOON CAVORITE SPHERE FULL

Hollow World: The Moon is full of tunnels and is largely hollow.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.

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