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The Abyss of Wonders

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Cover artist
  
John T. Brooks

Publication date
  
1953

Pages
  
191 pp

Author
  
Perley Poore Sheehan

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

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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."

References

The Abyss of Wonders Wikipedia