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The Hollow Earth Paperback – January 1, 2006

3.4 3.4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings

This is the second edition of The Hollow Earth, which was replaced in 2018 by a new, third edtion that fits with Rucker's sequel, Return to the Hollow Earth.  Plot: In 1836, Mason Algiers Reynolds leaves his family's Virginia farm with his father's slave, a dog, and a mule. Branded a murderer, he finds sanctuary with his hero, Edgar Allan Poe, and together they embark on an extraordinary expedition to the South Pole, and the entrance to the Hollow Earth. It is there, at the center of the world, where strange physics, strange people, and stranger creatures abound, that their bizarre adventures truly begin.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Monkeybrain; 2nd edition (January 1, 2006)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 400 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1932265201
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1932265200
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.07 x 0.67 x 9.17 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.4 3.4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings

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Rudy Rucker
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Rudy Rucker has written forty books, both pop science. and SF novels in the cyberpunk and transreal styles. He received Philip K. Dick awards for for the novels in his "Ware Tetralogy". His "Complete Stories," and his nonfiction "The Fourth Dimension" are standouts. He worked as a professor of computer science in Silicon Valley for twenty years. He paints works relating to his tales. His latest novel "Juicy Ghosts" is about telepathy, immortality, and a new revolution. Rudy blogs at www.rudyrucker.com/blog

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3.4 out of 5 stars
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Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2007
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!
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Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2013
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.
Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2009
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.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2013
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
Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2008
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.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2008
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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Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2007
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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