Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper CylinderOriginally published in 1888, A Strange Manuscript Found In a Copper Cylinder by James De Mille, arguably the first Canadian science fiction novel ever published, is resurrected in a collaboration between Stone Fox Publishing and Bakka Books. |
Contents
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A World of Fire And Desolation | 28 |
The Sight of Human Beings | 36 |
The Torrent Sweeping Under The Mountains | 46 |
The New World | 53 |
Scientific Theories And Skepticism | 63 |
Belief And Unbelief | 131 |
A Voyage Over The Pole | 141 |
The Wonders of The Amir | 149 |
The Dark Maiden Layelah | 156 |
The Flying Monster | 163 |
Escape | 171 |
The Island of Fire | 178 |
Recapture | 185 |
The CaveDwellers | 72 |
The Cavern of The Dead | 79 |
The Sacred Hunt | 86 |
The Swamp Monster | 91 |
The Baleful Sacrifice | 97 |
The Awful Mista Kosek | 103 |
I Learn My Doom | 111 |
The Kohen Is Inexorable | 118 |
The Kosekin | 125 |
Falling Like Icarus Into The Sea | 195 |
Grimms Law Again | 200 |
Oxenden Preaches A Sermon | 206 |
In Prison | 211 |
The Ceremony of Separation | 217 |
The Day of Sacrifice | 224 |
Conclusion | 231 |
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Page 19 - Englishman, and have been carried by aseries of incredible events to a land from which escape is as impossible as from the grave. I have written this and committed it to the sea. in the hope that the ocean currents may bear it within the reach of civilized man. Oh, unknown friend ! whoever you are, I entreat you to let this message be made known in some way to my father. Henry More, Keswick, Cumberland, England, so that he may learn the fate of his son. The MS. accompanying this contains an account...
Page 22 - It looked like land, and seemed to be a rocky island rising from the depths of the sea. It was, however, all covered with ice and snow, and from this there extended eastward as far as the eye could reach an interminable line of ice, but towards the southwest the sea seemed open to navigation. The promontory was very singular in shape, rising up to a peak which was at least a thousand feet in height, and forming a striking object, easily discovered and readily identified by any future explorer.