The Beetle Horde - Couverture souple

Rousseau, Victor

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1483702103 ISBN 13 : 9781483702100

Editeur : Spastic Cat Press, 2013

Synopsis

While exploring near the South Pole Tommy Travers and James Dodd, of the Travers Antarctic Expedition, crash in their plane and are seized by a swarm of man-sized beetles. They are carried down to Submundia, a world under the earth's crust, where the beetles have developed their civilization to an amazing point, using a wretched race of degenerated humans, whom they breed as cattle, for food. The insect horde is ruled by a human whose fiendish mind now plans to lead his unconquerable horde of monster insects forth to ravage the world, destroy the human race and establish a new era-the era of the insect.

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Biographie de l'auteur

From Wikipedia: Victor Rousseau Emanuel (1879-1960) was a writer of pulp fiction who was active in Great Britain and the United States in the first half of the 20th century. He wrote under the pen names "Victor Rousseau" and "H. M. Egbert". Emanuel first came to the U.S. in 1901. He also lived in Canada from 1912 to 1916, a period during which he wrote most of his best works. Although he began his career as a novelist, he gained popularity for his works of pulp fiction. After an early career as a reporter for the New York World and as an editor of Harper's Weekly, he became a fiction writer. He wrote in a variety of genres, including historical fiction, frontier stories, western romance and crime fiction, but was probably best known as an early exponent of science fiction and fantasy. His best known novels in those genres were The Messiah of the Cylinder, a story of a man placed in suspended animation for 100 years, and The Eye of Balamok, a lost-race novel. Several of his stories were adapted for Western films, and he was the author of one silent film screenplay, The Devil's Tower, based on one of his stories.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Exciting pulp adventure inside the hollow Earth, originally published in 1930! Scientist Jimmy Dodd and pilot Tommy Travers are searching for the exact location of the South Pole when a storm drives their plane through an opening into the hollow Earth. This interior land is populated by primitive humans who are raised for food by giant beetle overlords who are led by Bram, a missing scientist who has become the leader of the beetles. Bram intends to unleash his beetle horde upon the outer world and let them take supremacy over man. It’s up to Dodd and Travers to stop his mad plan.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Spastic Cat Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1483702103
• ISBN 13: 9781483702100
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 82
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible