The Hollow Earth by Rudy Rucker (PDF)

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This is the 2nd edition of “The Hollow Earth,” which is now obsolete. Instead see the 3rd edition, of 2018, which appears in ebook and paperback from Transreal Books. An ominibus edition of “The Hollow Earth & Return to the Hollow Earth” is also available in paperback and ebook from Transreal Books. Prior publication history of “The Hollow Earth”: 1st edition in paperback and hardback from Avon Books, 1990. 2nd edition in paperback from Monkeybrain Books, 2006. 2nd edition ebook edition from Transreal Books, 2012.

User’s Reviews

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐First thing I’ve read by Rucker and I couldn’t put it down. A stange genius, to be sure. I’ve read a lot of science fiction/fantasy and this definately stands apart. Rucker has a singular voice and after reading this I quickly immersed myself in his “Ware Tetrology” which is like nothing I’ve ever come across. It was so unuysual to me that at first I was uncertain, but after I allowed myself to be absorbed in the mythos I was hooked.

⭐The Hollow Earth kept my attention since the beginning. With its plot starting in the 1800s southern states to the funny comments made by Mr Poe. I enjoyed this book and recommend it for adventure readers

⭐Essentially a variant of Journey to the Center of the Earth blended with Huck Finn and Edgar A. Poe (as himself), with Rucker’s usual somewhat adolescent take on relationships and sex, not to mention the bizarre. A pretty good story, just not one of Rucker’s best.

⭐Essentially an update of the Vernian science fiction adventures of the 19th century, with a dose modern anthropology, post-modern sci-fi weirdness, and Rudy Rucker brand sexuality thrown in. Told from the perspective of a young man from the pre-war South, who becomes Poe’s assistant and accompanies him on an adventure to increasingly strange and bizarre lands. Quite enjoyable for anyone who knows something of Poe’s biography, and doesn’t shirk away from the pervier elements of it.

⭐In this enlightening book about the Hollow Earth theory, still considered a possibility by some people today, 15-year-old Mason Reynolds (the son of a slave-raping wiskey brewer in in early 1800’s) and his slave Otha find themselves embarking on an amazing journey deep beneath the Earth’s crust, after buying a prostitute, accidently murdering a boy, and fornicating with Edgar Allen Poe’s 14-year-old wife. together with his friends, Mason survives a 6-month voyage around the Atlantic, a sexual encounter with a South American woman, a ship-sinking sea-monster, and finally a freezing skyborne trip to the south pole in a hot-air balloon. Then when all looks bleak and Mason gets to the edge of a freezing death at the south pole, he suddenly finds himself and his companions, rapidly penetrating the lower cavity of and into the hollow Earth! A cavity, which of course is more-than-once likened to parts of the female anatomy. Inside, our heroes discover an amazing world of frightening creatures, bizarre physics, and of course lots of very horney humans, all of which readily expand Mason’s horizons in more ways than one… if you know what I mean. I highly recomend this book for anybody with an open mind and open legs. If you want to give your children a good example of a different theory of the shape of the earth, as well as a few new ideas about the use of their bodies in ways the law may not yet allow, this is the book for them!

⭐If you’ve read some Poe, especially “The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym,” you’ll enjoy this pastiche. It’s especially fun if you’re familiar with Lovecraft’s “At the Mountains of Madness,” another book that makes homage to Poe’s “Arthur Gordon Pym.” Rucker never disappoints– he’s crazy in a *good* way.

⭐Poe, Lovecraftian critters, wild adventures from the American South to the Hollow Earth–it’s all here. One of Rudy Rucker’s best novels, back in print.

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