Hollow Earth [Hardcover]

Rudy Rucker (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: MORROW, WILLIAM & COMPANY IN (1980)
• ASIN: B000N6XVRA
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Poe Fans Will Love It!, January 4, 2008

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Chris Ward (Costa Rica) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Hollow Earth (Paperback)

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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Great American SF Novel, December 11, 2007

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Marc Laidlaw - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Hollow Earth (Paperback)

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.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars An Appropriately Mad Poe, August 17, 2009

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P. Vogel (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Hollow Earth (Paperback)

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.