UNLIMITED Audiobooks and eBooks
Over 40,000 books & works on all major devices
Get ALL YOU CAN for FREE for 30 days!
The Lord of Death and the Queen of Life
Homer Eon Flint
Book Overview:
A doctor, an architect, an engineer, and a geologist step into a space car. In their new invention, they set off on an expediton to Mercury, planning to visit Venus on the return voyage. On Mercury they find a strange city eerily abandoned. Sculptures of giant figures alarm them. In a building they discover a machine. The engineer gets it running, and blaring out of the machine a thundering voice speaking Mercurian begins to sound in a way that conveys to them that it is telling a story. After an enormous effort the men translate the audio book. Here is the story translated from the Mercurian’s recording explaining what happened to him, and the story of the space travelers of what happened next.
A doctor, an architect, an engineer, and a geologist step into a space car. In their new invention, they set off on an expediton to Mercury, planning to visit Venus on the return voyage. On Mercury they find a strange city eerily abandoned. Sculptures of giant figures alarm them. In a building they discover a machine. The engineer gets it running, and blaring out of the machine a thundering voice speaking Mercurian begins to sound in a way that conveys to them that it is telling a story. After an enormous effort the men translate the audio book. Here is the story translated from the Mercurian’s recording explaining what happened to him, and the story of the space travelers of what happened next.
How does All You Can Books work?
All You Can Books gives you UNLIMITED access to over 40,000 Audiobooks, eBooks, and Foreign Language courses. Download as many audiobooks, ebooks, language audio courses, and language e-workbooks as you want during the FREE trial and it's all yours to keep even if you cancel during the FREE trial. The service works on any major device including computers, smartphones, music players, e-readers, and tablets. You can try the service for FREE for 30 days then it's just $19.99 per month after that. So for the price everyone else charges for just 1 book, we offer you UNLIMITED audio books, e-books and language courses to download and enjoy as you please. No restrictions.
"Well!" said the doctor suddenly, so that the other two started nervously. "The door's got to come down; that's all!" They looked around; there was no furniture, no loose piece of material of any kind. Van Emmon straightway backed away from the door about six feet, and the others followed his example.
"All together!" grunted the geologist; and the three aluminum-armored monsters charged the door. It shook under the impact; a shower of dust fell down; and they saw that they had loosened the thing.
"Once more!" This time a wide crack showed all around the edge of the door, and the third attempt finished the job. Noiselessly—for there was no air to carry the sound—but with a heavy jar which all three felt through their feet, the barrier went flat on the floor beyond.
At the same instant a curious, invisible wave, l. . . Read More
Try now for FREE!
"Love your service - thanks so much for what you do!"
- Customer Cathryn Mazer
"I did not realize that you would have so many audio books I would enjoy"
- Customer Sharon Morrison
"For all my fellow Audio Book & E-Book regulars:
This is about as close to nirvana as I have found!"
- Twitter post from @bobbyekat
Community Reviews
This book was clearly written as two separate short stories, and then published together in this ebook. The characters are the same, and the second story (The Queen of Life) follows directly from the first (The Lord of Death).
The Lord of Death tells the story of our heroes' journey to Mercury. It is
Read complete Review on Bookaapi Book Blog
The story is not that bad if we let slide many things. Homer is really was thinking a lot. He seems advanced with his thoughts of crimeless society and gender monopoly.
A demolition team of the world's worst archaeologists since Indiana Jones head to Mercury to destroy all traces of the civilisation they find there. Despite their best efforts to the contrary, some Mercurian phonographs survive and are later decoded, telling the story of Strokor and the brutal world
While the writing was somewhat stiff, the two connected stories making up this volume were surprisingly interesting. One reason was that Flint actually made a few good guesses about technology, and tossed off what we think of as television and tape recorders in 1919, well before either invention.
Ano
The first two of four novellas or stories in Homer Eon Flint's Dr. Kinney series. Very fun, engaging, and thought provoking. Highly recommended representation of the Radium Age of science fiction, written in the early years of the 20th century.
Four people set out from 1919's United States in a scientifically new flying cube. They go to Mercury and explore the remains of an ancient civilization, and then to Venus to meet a thriving, far-advanced society.
This author appears to predate most of my collection, hopefully I'll find more of his w