When the World Shook
- Paperback
360 pages
- Release Date
24 September 2012
Summary
If representatives of an advanced civilization were to visit our planet today, would they be impressed or dismayed by the way we live?
When three adventurers, Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot, are marooned on a South Sea island, they discover an ancient crystal sepulchre. Inside are two Atlanteans who have been in a state of suspended animation for 250,000 years!
One of the awakened sleepers, the haughty Lord Oro, is the last of the Sons of Wisdom, a superior race who’d relied on thei…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781935869566 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1935869566 |
| Author: | H. Rider Haggard, James Parker |
| Publisher: | Red Lemonade |
| Imprint: | Red Lemonade |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 360 |
| Release Date: | 24 September 2012 |
| Weight: | 255g |
| Dimensions: | 190mm x 127mm |
| Series: | The Radium Age Science Fiction Series |
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If this is pulp fiction it’s high pulp: a Wagnerian opera of an adventure tale, a B-movie humanist apocalypse and chivalric romance. When the World Shookhas it all
If this is pulp fiction it’s high pulp: a Wagnerian opera of an adventure tale, a B-movie humanist apocalypse and chivalric romance. When the World Shookhas it all – English gentlemen of leisure, devastating shipwrecks, volcanic tropical islands inhabited by cannibals, ancient princesses risen from the grave, and if that weren’t enough a friendly, ongoing debate between a godless materialist and a devout Christian. H. Rider Haggard’s rich universe is both profoundly camp and deeply idealistic.—Lydia Millet
About The Author
H. Rider Haggard
H. Rider Haggard was a popular English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, including King Solomon’s Mines (considered one of the first of the Lost World genre) and She. When The World Shook, which features suspended animation and a machine capable of changing the tilt of the earth, is the most science-fictional of his writings.
James Parker was born in London in 1968. He is the author of Turned On: A Biography of Henry Rollins and a contributing editor at The Atlantic.
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