The Hollow Earth - Softcover

Rucker, Rudy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1940948290 ISBN 13: 9781940948294

Publisher: Transreal Books, 2018

Synopsis

The Hollow Earth is a classic work of American steampunk. In 1836, our seventeen-year-old narrator Mason Reynolds leaves his father's Virginia farm with the black Otha. He befriends the dissolute Edgar Allan Poe, and they fall through a thousand-mile-deep hole in the ice of Antarctica. Within the Hollow Earth, Mason woos and wins Seela, who lives upon a giant flower. At the earth’s the core he finds a sky-surfing tribe known as the black gods—and a cluster of giant, god-like sea cucumbers known as woomo. Mason, Seela, and Poe make their way out through the crust and back to Earth. But due to their time in the strong light of the woomo, their skins are black. And then they encounter Poe’s double. The adventure continues in Return to the Hollow Earth. The Hollow Earth novels were updated in 2021 to remove offensive racial epithets.

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Review

Praise for "The Hollow Earth":Rucker never wants for new inventions... Irresistible.          -- Washington Post Book World.Jam-packed with Rucker's dada-gaga, aurora-borealism, and gargantuan playfulness. Rucker is one of my all-time favorite writers. He warms the cockles of my heart and fires up the little gray cells.           -- Philip Jose Farmer.Terrific... A thrilling-wonder sci-fi novel... Rucker's Poe is the most endearingly repulsive character I can recall having met in fiction.           -- Fantasy& Science Fiction.Edgar Allan Poe would have loved this book -- and so will you!           -- Robert Bloch, author of "Psycho."A craftily conceived adventure story, full of wonder, beauty and humor ... Goofily outlandish ... The Hollow Earth is a treat.           -- San FranciscoChronicle.I never doubted that Mr. Rucker knew the way, and I never lost interest in the plucky young Mason and the redoubtable if reprehensibleEddie Poe, who encounters in real life every one of the nightmares he has so memorably to paper.           -- The NewYork Times Book Review.It's more fun than anything I've read in I don't know howlong, and it's certainly the reigning king of the Hollow Earth novels. Ruckerhas an enviable imagination, an astonishing ear for language, and a rare sens eof proportion and humor. I wish books like this would come along more often.           --James P. Blaylock, author of "The Digging Leviathan".

Edition details

• Publisher: Transreal Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1940948290
• ISBN 13: 9781940948294
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304