The Man in the Moon: 1 (The Guardians of Childhood)

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Neville Davies, H. (1967), "The History of a Cipher, 1602–1772", Music & Letters, 48 (4): 325–9, doi: 10.1093/ml/xlviii.4.325, JSTOR 733227 Poole, William (2009), "Introduction", in Poole, William (ed.), The Man in the Moone, Broadview, pp.13–62, ISBN 978-1-55111-896-3

Cavorite and Cavor also play a major role in the end of Scarlet Traces: The Great Game, with the Selenites also briefly depicted. In Japanese mythology, it is said that a tribe of human-like spiritual beings live on the Moon. This is especially explored in The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter. This reading group guide has been provided by Simon & Schuster for classroom, library, and reading group use. It may be reproduced in its entirety or excerpted for these purposes.

Report of the 68th Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 1898. 1899. London: Murray. p. 704. This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sourcesin this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( August 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) The Man in the Moon drinks Claret, as it was sung at the Court in Holy-well. Bagford Ballads, Folio Collection in the British Museum, vol. ii. No. 119.

On the way to the Moon, they experience weightlessness, which Bedford finds "exceedingly restful". [7] On the surface of the Moon the two men discover a desolate landscape, but as the Sun rises, the thin, frozen atmosphere vaporises and strange plants begin to grow with extraordinary rapidity. Bedford and Cavor leave the capsule, but in romping about get lost in the rapidly growing jungle. They hear for the first time a mysterious booming coming from beneath their feet. They encounter "great beasts", "monsters of mere fatness", that they dub "mooncalves", and five-foot-high "Selenites" tending them. At first they hide and crawl about, but growing hungry partake of some "monstrous coralline growths" of fungus that inebriate them. They wander drunkenly until they encounter a party of six extraterrestrials, who capture them. [8] The insectoid lunar natives (referred to as "Selenites", after Selene, the Greek 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. Kepler’s Conversation with Galileo’s Sidereal Messenger , trans. E. Rosen, New York and London, Johnson Reprints, 1965, p. 23. Clark, John (2006), " 'Small, Vulnerable ETs': The Green Children of Woolpit", Science Fiction Studies, 33 (2): 209–29, JSTOR 4241432 Bacon, The Advancement of Learning , I,v,7. The first edition of De mundo used a text prepared from two codex manuscripts in the library of Sir William Boswell, which were possibly among the Bacon papers acquired by Boswell. De mundo was also known to Thomas Harriot. See Kelly, The «De mundo» , I. 16. On Bacon and Gilbert, see M. Boas, «Bacon and Gilbert», Journal of the History of Ideas , 12 (1951), pp. 466-7, and Kelly, «Gilbert’s Influence on Bacon, a Revaluation», Physics 5 (1963), pp. 249-68.Arveiller, R. (1967), "Rev. of Cornelius, Languages in Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century Imaginary Voyages", Revue d'Histoire littéraire de la France, 67 (1): 143–4, JSTOR 40523004 In a little while, in a very little while, if I tell my secret, this planet to its deepest galleries will be strewn with human dead. Other things are doubtful, but that is certain. It is not as though man had any use for the moon. What good would the moon be to men? Even of their own planet what have they made but a battle-ground and theatre of infinite folly? Small as his world is, and short as his time, he has still in his little life down there far more than he can do. No! Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand. Let him find it out for himself again—in a thousand years’ time.”