[Gutenberg 5703] • The Lord of Death and the Queen of Life
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- Authors
- Flint, Homer Eon
- Publisher
- Musa Publishing
- Tags
- science fiction , venus (planet) -- fiction , life on other planets -- fiction , mercury (planet) -- fiction
- ISBN
- 9781619372474
- Date
- 1919-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.14 MB
- Lang
- en
Were Adam and Eve extra-terrestrials?
First published in 1919 and read by over four million readers, The Lord of Death/The Queen of Life showcases speculative fiction author Homer Eon Flint’s interest in the Darwinian rule, Survival of the Fittest.
In The Lord of Death, four scientists, aided by reverse-magnetism, travel to a dead planet where they discover that one human’s lust for power destroyed all life there—except for him. In suspended animation, he awaits the newcomers.
In The Queen of Life, (considered a feminist tale) the scientists (one has revealed herself as a woman) travel to a planet encased in a glass sphere to protect the overpopulated planet from the sun’s radiation. Conflict leads to a riot.