Isbn: 9781935869566 - when the world shook (the radium age science fiction series) (1 resultados)

Paperback: 7½" x 5". Condición: Very Good: Light signs of wear. 2012 Edition. © 1919: A stand-alone novel by H Rider Haggard. 1st printing of 2012 edition with an introduction by James Parker. 4th in the 'Radium Age Science Fiction' series of books:- Synopsis: When Humphrey Arbuthnot and his friends are marooned on a South Sea island, they awake the last two members of an advanced race, who have spent 250,000 years in a state of suspended animation. Using astral projection, Lord Oro visits London and the battlefields of the Western Front. Horrified by the degraded state of civilization, he activates an infernal technology capable of destroying the modern world. Only Oro's beautiful superwoman daughter, Yva, who has fallen in love with Humphrey can stop him! Rudyard Kipling helped H Rider Haggard plot his only science fiction novel, which was published in 1919:- Review(s): "A really splendid romance, rich in color, fresh and gorgeous in its imaginative qualities and power, and needless to add, absorbingly interesting" - The New York Times, 1919 / "Rider Haggard has never conceived and placed before our eyes any pictures more thrilling and more impressive than are contained in this latest book" - New York Evening Post, 1919 / "If this is pulp fiction it's high pulp: a Wagnerian opera of an adventure tale, a B-movie humanist apocalypse and chivalric romance. H Rider Haggard's rich universe is both profoundly camp and deeply idealistic" - Lydia Millet, 2012:- (original cost $15.95). Cover Art: Michael Lewy (ilustrador).…