THE HOLLOW EARTH: Sci-Fi Boxed Set - 24 Tales of Lost Worlds & Alternative Universes
Twenty-Four Classic Tales of Lost Worlds, Underworlds, and Altered RealitiesBy Arthur Conan Doyle, Abraham Merritt, Jules Verne, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, George MacDonald, H. Rider Haggard, Gertrude Barrows Bennett, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Francis Bacon, C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne, Philip K. Dick
Length168h 22m
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THE HOLLOW EARTH: Sci-Fi Boxed Set gathers twenty-four excursions into subterranean kingdoms, lost continents, remote planets, and destabilizing alternative realities. Moving from proto-scientific romance and Gothic fantasy through imperial adventure to twentieth-century philosophical science fiction, the volume charts the changing imaginative uses of the unknown. Its narratives range from voyage tales and utopian speculation to uncanny encounters and cosmological nightmares; especially memorable are its visions of hidden civilizations, perilous polar passages, and worlds whose altered laws unsettle human certainty. The contributors collectively form a genealogy of Anglophone and European speculative writing. They include foundational thinkers of experimental inquiry, Victorian fantasists and scientific romancers, adventure-fiction innovators, pulp-era architects of planetary and prehistoric worlds, and a modern master of ontological unease. Their varied historical positions illuminate the genre's entanglement with exploration, empire, technological modernity, spiritual inquiry, and fears of social transformation. Read together, these voices reveal that the "hollow earth" is less a single setting than a durable literary device for testing knowledge, civilization, and identity. This boxed set is recommended to readers of science fiction history, fantasy, adventure literature, and utopian thought. It offers an unusually broad opportunity to compare styles and eras within one volume, while tracing how recurring images of hidden worlds generate a rich dialogue between wonder, critique, and existential speculation.
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GenreScience Fiction
Length168 hrs 22 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 19, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1LESTER DEL REY - Boxed Set (Illustrated Edition) (Annotated)
2Abraham Merritt
3The Moon Pool
4Foreword
5Chapter I. The Thing on the Moon Path
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6Chapter II. “Dead! All Dead!”
7Chapter III. The Moon Rock
8Chapter IV. The First Vanishings
9Chapter V. Into the Moon Pool
10Chapter VI. “The Shining Devil Took Them!”
11Chapter VII. Larry O’Keefe
12Chapter VIII. Olaf’s Story
13Chapter IX. A Lost Page of Earth
14Chapter X. The Moon Pool
15Chapter XI. The Flame–Tipped Shadows
16Chapter XII. The End of the Journey
17Chapter XIII. Yolara, Priestess of the Shining One
18Chapter XIV. The Justice of Lora
19Chapter XV. The Angry, Whispering Globe
20Chapter XVI. Yolara of Muria vs. The O’Keefe
21Chapter XVII. The Leprechaun
22Chapter XVIII. The Amphitheatre of Jet
23Chapter XIX. The Madness of Olaf
24Chapter XX. The Tempting of Larry
25Chapter XXI. Larry’s Defiance
26Chapter XXII. The Casting of the Shadow
27Chapter XXIII. Dragon Worm and Moss Death
28Chapter XXIV. The Crimson Sea
29Chapter XXV. The Three Silent Ones
30Chapter XXVI. The Wooing of Lakla
31Chapter XXVII. The Coming of Yolara
32Chapter XXVIII. In the Lair of the Dweller
33Chapter XXIX. The Shaping of the Shining One
34Chapter XXX. The Building of the Moon Pool
35Chapter XXXI. Larry and the Frog–Men
36Chapter XXXII. “Your Love; Your Lives; Your Souls!”
37Chapter XXXIII. The Meeting of Titans
38Chapter XXXIV. The Coming of the Shining One
39Chapter XXXV. “Larry — Farewell!”
40The Metal Monster
41Prologue
42Chapter I. Valley of the Blue Poppies
43Chapter II. The Sigil on the Rocks
44Chapter III. Ruth Ventnor
45Chapter IV. Metal with a Brain
46Chapter V. The Smiting Thing
47Chapter VI. Norhala of the Lightnings
48Chapter VII. The Shapes in the Mist
49Chapter VIII. The Drums of Thunder
50Chapter IX. The Portal of Flame
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