Roy Rockwood 3 hr 28 min read

A great earthquake tears a chunk of the Earth loose and flings it into the sky, carrying young adventurers and an oil-hunter along on an impossible aerial voyage.

Roy Rockwood's 1913 boys' adventure, part of the Great Marvel Series, is a rousing juvenile catastrophe romp. Fast, illustrated, wide-eyed period SF. Read it for a classic turn-of-the-century thriller where a cataclysm sends its young heroes soaring off on a torn-away piece of the world.

In its time

Published in 1913, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

3 hr 28 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).