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Loading... The Hollow Earth: The Narrative of Mason Algiers Reynolds of Virginiaby Rudy Rucker
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. A re-write of Huckleberry Finn. "Though I was born in 1821, I am seventeen today, not twenty-nine. The cause of this discrepancy is that twelve years passed during the single hour that Seela and I were in the heart of the Central Anomaly. Looking out from that frenzied zone, I saw the South Hole dim and brighten a full dozen times. For me, the New Year's Day of 1837 is as one month and one year ago, not thirteen." p 180 no reviews | add a review
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But it is Eddie's interest in a theory that the Earth is actually hollow that drives the main thread of the story as Mason becomes wrapped up in the fascination and follows Eddie and others into the twisted and strange hollow earth.
This is just about one of the weirdest stories that I have ever read, that touches upon rather uncomfortable subjects (like sex with corpses) and delves into various oddities. It is mostly this version of POe that offers the most discomfort and the everyday world before they enter the hollow earth. Once inside the story takes on a more surreal tone while managing to seem relatively plausible (for a book filled with shrimp-like pig things, flower people, and god-like sea cucumbers). I didn't know what to make of it while reading it, and I still don't know what to make of it. It certainly got more and more interesting as it went along, so I think I liked it. (