Abraham Merritt ~6 hr read

Deep in the mountains of Central Asia, Dr. Goodwin and his companions meet a living, thinking city of metal, a vast intelligence of moving cubes and spheres, ruled by an enigmatic woman.

Abraham Merritt's 1920 novel is a visionary masterpiece of scientific romance and cosmic fantasy. Lush, strange, unforgettable. Read it for one of the great imaginative works of early SF, Merritt's shimmering, dreamlike vision of a sentient metal life-form, a hidden valley, and a wonder and terror beyond the human.

In its time

Published in 1920, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

~6 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).