Relinquish everything you know about the moon. Then realize the title does not have a typo. At first you think this story may be akin to Jules Verne, very scientific, realistic and man being the only conflict; only to find out Wells is truly the father of science fiction. Uncannily realistic and possible, his ideas on gravity are scarily close to what we know to be true today considering the fact that man was unable to test many theories concerning the environment of space until the height of the cold war.