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When the World Shook
H. Rider Haggard
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Description for When the World Shook
Paperback. Series: The Radium Age Science Fiction Series. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: FL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 127 x 20. Weight in Grams: 257.
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 their advanced technology to subjugate the planet's lesser peoples. The other Atlantean is Oro's daughter, Yva, ... Read more
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 their advanced technology to subjugate the planet's lesser peoples. The other Atlantean is Oro's daughter, Yva, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Red Lemonade United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
The Radium Age Science Fiction Series
Condition
New
Weight
257g
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781935869566
SKU
V9781935869566
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About 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 ... Read more
Reviews for When the World Shook
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more