George Chetwynd Griffith 3 hr 37 min read

In a lost Inca realm an ancient prophecy waits: the Son of the Sacred Race shall cast out the Oppressor and reclaim the glory of the Sun.

George Griffith's novel is a rousing lost-world adventure of Inca Peru. Vivid, romantic, of its era. Read it for a colorful Victorian tale of ancient prophecy and resurrection, where a lost civilization's long-awaited redeemer sets out to overthrow the conquerors and restore a fallen empire of the Sun.

In its time

Published in 1978, during the 1970s, feminist sf emerges.

Reading it

3 hr 37 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

Alfred Pearse