# The First Men in the Moon — Character guide

> Key figures in The First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells.

- [Mr. Bedford](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_first_men_in_the_moon_se/characters/mr_bedford.md): Bedford arrives at Lympne nursing wounded business pride, convinced he is a man of affairs temporarily reduced to scribbling drama for money. His practical, acquisitive instincts collide with Cavor's unworldly science, a
- [Mr. Cavor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_first_men_in_the_moon_se/characters/mr_cavor.md): Cavor is the kind of scientist who forgets meals, social niceties, and sometimes his own safety in pursuit of a question. Where Bedford schemes and calculates, Cavor wants only to observe, record, and understand whatever
- [The Selenites](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_first_men_in_the_moon_se/characters/the_selenites.md): The Selenites inhabit a vast underground anthill of spiral shafts and galleries, lit by their own faint luminosity and organized with a precision no human society approaches. Every individual is engineered—through breedi
- [The Grand Lunar](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_first_men_in_the_moon_se/characters/the_grand_lunar.md): Enormous in head and intellect, the Grand Lunar receives Cavor for a formal interrogation about the Earth and its peoples. He listens with unsettling patience, weighing human war, greed, and individuality against the Sel
- [Phi-oo](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_first_men_in_the_moon_se/characters/phi_oo.md): Alert and eager, Phi-oo takes a genuine interest in the Earthman's oddities, asking questions and offering explanations with a scientist's delight. He bridges the gap between Cavor's chatter and the Selenite hierarchy, b
- [Mr. Julius Wendigee](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_first_men_in_the_moon_se/characters/mr_julius_wendigee.md): Wendigee has spent years and a fortune building an observatory on Monte Rosa to catch electromagnetic whispers from beyond Earth, a pursuit most scientists dismiss as eccentric. When Cavor's messages begin arriving, Wend
- [Tsi-puff](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_first_men_in_the_moon_se/characters/tsi_puff.md): A Selenite philosopher who debates with Cavor about human customs.
- [Cavorite](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_first_men_in_the_moon_se/characters/cavorite.md): The anti-gravity substance invented by Cavor that enables space travel.
- [Gibbs](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_first_men_in_the_moon_se/characters/gibbs.md): A local Lympne man who assists Bedford and Cavor with odd jobs.
- [Lloyd](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_first_men_in_the_moon_se/characters/lloyd.md): A friend of Bedford's who helps him after his return to Earth.

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