Jack Williamson 2 hr 31 min read

Drawn since childhood by a telepathic call from a mysterious green girl, a young man builds a submarine to seek her in the ocean depths, and finds a lost undersea world of wonder and menace.

Jack Williamson's 1930 novel is a rousing hard-SF and lost-world adventure. Vivid, imaginative, hailed as a scientifiction classic. Read it for an early Williamson wonder-tale of undersea exploration and psychic romance, ranking with the best of the pulp era, a vivid, exciting descent into a submerged realm in search of the green girl of a lifelong dream.

In its time

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

Reading it

2 hr 31 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

Hans Waldemar Wessolowski