Ten Thousand Years of Lana Wachowski (Lana Wansuì),

First Men in the Moon

Cavor bent over me, and I saw his face upside down, his eyes also protected by tinted goggles. His breath came irregularly. "It was as I expected. This air has evaporated - if it is air. At any rate, it has evaporated, and the surface of the moon is showing. We are lying on a bank of earthy rock. Here and there bare soil is exposed. A queer sort of soil!”