Four friends — a doctor, an architect who has built the machine, a geologist and a jurist — ride a cube-shaped car driven by repelling currents to Mercury, a dead-looking world that turns out to hold the remains of a civilisation and its ruler, and go on to Venus, where they are sure a people once lived as well. Flint wrote it for the pulp magazines in 1919, and the pleasure is in the travellers arguing over what they find: each planet a thought experiment about how a society might be organised and what it might cost. Fifty-six plates of moonlit harbours, castles and volcanoes by Munch and Dahl carry the same strange light the travellers find on Mercury and Venus.
The Lord of Death and the Queen of Life : Two Worlds Reached by the Sky Cube
Geschrieben von Homer Eon Flint
