β Scribed by Milo M. Hastings
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
A fascinating and disturbing dystopian vision from neglected sci-fi master Milo Hastings, imagining an all too terrifying alternate ending to the First World War and its implications for the human race. The year is 2041. Since the end of the First World War, Berlin has been an enormous subterranean city, home to 300 million citizens who have never seen the sun and presided over by the autocratic Hohenzollern dynasty. Every aspect of life is regimented; from controlled rations that are issued on the basis of work-for-food, to a press that works exclusively under the auspices of the Information Service. Christianity has been abolished and all breeding is carried out on the basis of strict eugenic principles. Lyman De Forrest, an American chemist, discovers a way of neutralising Berlin's defences and, assuming the identity of a dead German man, enters the city to discover its hidden truths. The first outsider for decades to enter the forbidden metropolis, he is horrified to find a...
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
> Some are born to sweet delight,Some are born to endless night . . . When penniless Michael Rogers discovers the beautiful house at Gypsyβs Acre and then meets the heiress Ellie, it seems that all his dreams have come true at once. But he ignores an old womanβs warning of an ancient curse, and evi
"Jody is pretty tough for a sixteen-year old girl. That's the only reason she's still alive--for now. She was sleeping over at her friend Evelyn's house when a group of killers broke in and tried to slaughter everyone. She saw Evelyn spitted on a spear, but Jody managed to escape, along with Evelyn'
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Agatha Christie's disturbing 1960s mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Gipsy's Acre was a truly beautiful upland site with views out to sea -- and in Michael Rogers it stirred
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Agatha Christie's disturbing 1960s mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Gipsy's Acre was a truly beautiful upland site with views out to sea -- and in Michael Rogers it stirred
In this seductive follow-up to *Poison Princess*, #1 *New York Times* bestselling author Kresley Cole takes us deeper into the dark world of the Arcana Chronicles. *Shocking secrets* Evie has fully come into her powers as the Tarot Empress, and Jack was there to see it all. She now knows tha