H. G. Wells 
The First Men in the Moon [EPUB ebook] 

‘The First Men in the Moon’ is a Dystopian and scientific romance published in 1901 by the English author H. G. Wells, who called it one of his ‘fantastic stories’.
The novel tells the story of a journey to the moon undertaken by the two protagonists, a businessman narrator, Mr. Bedford, and an eccentric scientist, Mr. Cavor. Bedford and Cavor discover that the moon is inhabited by a sophisticated extraterrestrial civilisation of insect-like creatures they call ‘Selenites’.