Classic dystopia of breeding for service to society.\ On October 19, 2010, BBC Four broadcast a made-for-television version written by Mark Gatniss (b. 1966) and directed by Damon Thomas.
}, year = {1900}, journal = {The Strand Magazine }, volume = {20 - 22}, pages = {529-40, 697-05; 30-41, 160-69, 279-90, 400-09, 497-07, 657-63; 16-29, 141-49}, month = {11/1900}, note = {The Strand Magazine\ sections from July and August 1901 have been rpt. in Moonrise: The Golden Age of Lunar Adventures. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald]\ Ashley (London: British Library, 2018), 107-49 with and editor{\textquoteright}s not on 105-06.\ A different version was published in The Cosmopolitan (New York) 30.1 - 6 (November 1900 - April 1901): 65-80, 194-206, 310-23, 415-29, 521-34, 643-56. First collected--Indianapolis, IN: Bowen-Merrill, 1901; and, with minor textual differences, London: George Newnes, 1901. Rpt. London Gollancz, 2013, with an {\textquotedblleft}Introduction{\textquotedblright} by Lisa Tuttle (ix-xi). Rpt. in The Works of H.G. Wells Atlantic Edition. Volume VI The First Men in the Moon and Some More Human Stories (New York: Charles Scribner{\textquoteright}s Sons, 1925), 1-267. Except for later critical editions, The Atlantic Edition is generally considered the best text of Wells{\textquoteright}s works. Also rpt. in Amazing Stories 1.9 {\textendash} 11 (December 1926 {\textendash} February 1927): 774-91, 914-39, 1014-38; with illus. Bob Eggleton. Norfolk, VA: Donning Co., 1989; London: Everyman, 1993; as The First Men in the Moon: A Critical Text of the 1901 London First Edition, with an Introduction and Appendices. Ed. Leon Stover. Jefferson, NC: McFarland \& Co., 1998, with the annotated text on 33-263, an introduction by Stover (1-32), six appendices that includes two essays by Wells, a review, {\textquotedblleft}Verne on Wells and Vice Versa,{\textquotedblright} and two essays on subjects related to the text, a bibliography (309-318), and an index (319-321); New York: Modern Library, 2002, with an {\textquotedblleft}Introduction{\textquotedblright} by Ursula K. Le Guin (xi-xviii) that has been rpt. in her Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books 2000-2016 (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer, 2016), 173-78, and {\textquotedblleft}Commentary{\textquotedblright} by T. S. Eliot (223-26) that had been originally published as {\textquotedblleft}Journalists of Yesterday and Today.{\textquotedblright} The New English Weekly 16.16 (February 8, 1940): 237-38 [The Modern Library edition says the original title was {\textquotedblleft}Wells as Journalist]; and Darko Suvin (227-240) that had originally been published as {\textquotedblleft}Wells as the Turning Point of the SF Tradition.{\textquotedblright} Minnesota Review, ns 4.4 (1975): 106-15, and a {\textquotedblleft}Reading Group Guide{\textquotedblright} (241-42); ed. Patrick Parrinder. London: Penguin Books, 2005, with an {\textquotedblleft}Introduction{\textquotedblright} by China Mi{\'e}ville (xiii-xxviii), a {\textquotedblleft}Note on the Text{\textquotedblright} by Patrick Parrinder (xxxi-xxxvii), and {\textquotedblleft}Notes{\textquotedblright} by Steven McLean (205-13); and in The First Men in the Moon A Modern Utopia (Ware, Eng.: Wordsworth Classics, 2017), 27-193, with an {\textquotedblleft}Introduction{\textquotedblright} by David Stuart Davies (11-25). An alternative beginning and an alternative ending were published as {\textquotedblleft}An Unpublished Prologue to The First Men in the Moon.{\textquotedblright} with an {\textquotedblleft}Introduction{\textquotedblright} by Charles Blair. The Wellsian, no. 37 (2014): 15-17; and {\textquotedblleft}Terrestrial: An Unpublished Version of the Ending of The First Men in the Moon{\textquotedblright} with an {\textquotedblleft}Introduction{\textquotedblright} by Simon J. James. The Wellsian, no. 37 (2014): 18-30.
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