Was it Paradise on Earth or an Iron Hell?
When Davy Breckenridge stowed away aboard a mysterious cargo ship, he sought to solve the enigma of John Kaspar. The richest man in the world, John Kaspar and his fortune had disappeared 40 years before. Arriving on Kaspar’s secret island, Davy found a paradise on Earth. The people of the City of Beauty were graceful and artistic; pampered with automatic houses, self-driving cars and every conceivable luxury.
But there was a mechanical snake in this idyllic Eden.
Beneath the surface, this supposedly carefree people lived in nameless terror. The best and the brightest among them were disappearing. A net of total surveillance entrapped the community. Who was behind this sinister control?
Davy Breckenridge knew that the answers lay in the forbidden City of Smoke, the industrial complex on the other side of the island. No one who had tried to discover its secrets had ever returned. Davy was willing to risk it.
But should he risk his new love – and his very life – to save a people too lazy to save themselves?
Mục lục
Airplane View of the Island
Foreword IV
1 A New Kind of Ship 14
2 An Island and a Girl 31
3 The ‘City of Beauty’ 48
4 Athens or Utopia? 69
5 A Machine-Devil 88
6 The Gulls’ Nest 106
7 I Become a Rebel 122
8 To the City of Smoke 140
9 What is Supervision? 160
10 Who Runs This Place? 177
11 One Night in Sheol 196
12 The Electrical Brain 213
13 Machines versus Men 235
14 The Price of Victory 257
15 The Island Starts Over 278
Appendix 1: About the Author 304
Appendix 2: About the Artists 307
Giới thiệu về tác giả
Igor Spajic has written extensively on classic car subjects for the Australian ‘Restored Cars’ magazine.
He has also read science fiction all his life, with an increasing interest in the earlier years of the genre. Apart from the pulp magazine era of the 1920s through the 1940s, Igor has discovered a rich vein of works written before even the term ‘science fiction’ was coined. These works appeared in the popular fiction magazines of the early 20th century, and Igor has published a checklist of titles. He has also re-published an early Australian pulp SF novel, ‘Time Marches Off’ also available through this imprint.
He can be contacted at:
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