EDITORIAL REVIEW: "Long's smart and epic tale takes the reader into a Dantesque world, a journey to the center of the earth for the new millennium. And what is found there is both horrific and entrancing: a system of tunnels that network beneath the earth, and homonid relatives of Homo sapiens evolv
The descent: a novel
β Scribed by Jeff Long
- Publisher
- Jove Books
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 358 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
EDITORIAL REVIEW:
"Long's smart and epic tale takes the reader into a Dantesque world, a journey to the center of the earth for the new millennium. And what is found there is both horrific and entrancing: a system of tunnels that network beneath the earth, and homonid relatives of Homo sapiens evolved to live in the depths of what appears to be hell." (*Baltimore Sun*) "A return to the fantastic epics readers associate with H.G. Wells or Jules Verne." (*Chicago Tribune*) "As frightening and exhilarating as anything in heaven or hell." (*Denver Rocky Mountain News*)
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