Cover artist John T. Brooks Publication date 1953 Pages 191 pp Country United States of America | Language English Media type Print (hardback) Originally published 1953 Publisher Fantasy Press OCLC 6510284 | |
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Genres Novel, Science Fiction, Speculative fiction Similar The Adventure MEGAPA, Efficiency: A Play in One Act, Doctor Coffin: The Living De, Three Sevens, "We are French!" | ||
The Abyss of Wonders is a science fiction novel by author Perley Poore Sheehan. It was first published in book form in 1953 by Polaris Press in an edition of 990 copies. It was the second and final book published by Polaris Press and included an introduction by P. Schuyler Miller. The novel originally appeared in the magazine Argosy in 1915.
Contents
Plot introduction
The novel concerns a lost race in the Gobi Desert that is technologically advanced through a combination of theosophy and superscience.
Reception
Groff Conklin, reviewing the 1953 edition, called it "a fairy tale for youngsters . . . written in a kindergarten style that is irritating to most modern readers." Miller recommended the novel to collectors, but noted that "casual readers will probably be disappointed."
Everett F. Bleiler dismissed the novel as "a curiosity only," describing it as "curiously imprecise and wavery, with a fairytale atmosphere; weakly planned, with many unsatisfactory elements."