Stanton A. Coblentz 4 hr 10 min read

Given up for lost five years ago, two explorers descend into a hidden underground world, a subterranean civilization with wonders and a dystopian order all its own.

Stanton A. Coblentz's 1935 novel is a rousing hollow-earth adventure laced with social satire, from a favorite of the early pulps. Vivid, imaginative, satirical. Read it for a classic lost-world tale that plunges beneath the surface into a strange civilization and a pointed critique of our own.

In its time

Published in 1935, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

4 hr 10 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

Frank R. Paul