The Hollow Earth

The Hollow Earth is a classic work of American steampunk. In 1836, our seventeen-year-old narrator Mason Reynolds leaves his father's Virginia farm with the black Otha. He befriends the dissolute Edgar Allan Poe, and they fall through a thousand-mile-deep hole in the ice of Antarctica. Within the Hollow Earth, Mason woos and wins Seela, who lives upon a giant flower. At the earth's the core he finds a sky-surfing tribe known as the black gods-and a cluster of giant, god-like sea cucumbers k...