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Out of Time's Abyss

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

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Series: Caspak (3)

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Though now best remembered as the creator of the character Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs was a prolific writer of science fiction and fantasy tales. This novel is the third entry in Burroughs' Caspak trilogy, following The Land That Time Forgot and The People That Time Forgot. Filled with more tantalizing details about the fantastical world the novels describe, this volume also delves into the science behind the story, positing a feasible evolutionary account for the survival of dinosaurs and other prehistoric flora and fauna on a remote island.

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Nice job of pulling together the unknowns of the two prior books and explaining the mysteries of Caspak. ( )
  AliceAnna | Mar 12, 2023 |
This final volume in the Caspak trilogy follows the adventures of Bradley, one of the sailors whose path became separated from that of most of his fellows in the previous novel. It is very like the second volume in that Bradley like Tom Billings in that book adventures across the surface of the continent and finds and rescues a Caspakian woman, Co-Tan, with whom he falls in love. Most of the enemies Bradley faces though are not dinosaurs or wild animals, but the intelligent but hideous and murderous Wieroos, who have a much more advanced civilisation than any other hominid race in Caspak. After many brushes with death, at the end of the novel, Bradley and Co-Tan meet Billings and Ajor and they and all the surviving crewmembers of their ship and of the original German U-Boat sail off into the sunrise. ( )
  john257hopper | Jul 31, 2022 |
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I know some have said the plot is a repeat of the two previous books, but I didn't feel that at all. Burroughs has delivered another fun adventure while answering the rest of our questions about Caspak and giving us a happy ending for the series. ( )
  ChelseaVK | Dec 10, 2021 |
Read as part of the trilogy https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1240044128 . ( )
  wreade1872 | Nov 28, 2021 |
In the first book the last we saw of Bradly, Brady, Sinclar, James & Tippet they had left on a expedition. This book picks up on their story. Bradley had been captured by the ghost-like creature, which is soon revealed to be a naturally winged human being, belonging to a subgroup of humanity known as the Wieroo. He faces dangers and rescues a beautiful girl (of course). ( )
  nx74defiant | Apr 28, 2019 |
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Classic Literature. Fiction. Science Fiction & Fantasy. HTML:

Though now best remembered as the creator of the character Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs was a prolific writer of science fiction and fantasy tales. This novel is the third entry in Burroughs' Caspak trilogy, following The Land That Time Forgot and The People That Time Forgot. Filled with more tantalizing details about the fantastical world the novels describe, this volume also delves into the science behind the story, positing a feasible evolutionary account for the survival of dinosaurs and other prehistoric flora and fauna on a remote island.

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On Caprona, the Land That Time Forgot, all of the world's savage past still lived. Here were dinosaurs and flying reptiles, here were the most primitive of cavemen and the last of Bronze Age barbarians. But there was one more secret that the claws and fangs and sharp-edged spears guarded most of all.

This is the story of the man who tried to find that final secret. When Bradley, the adventurer, dared to cross the last terrible barrier to the heart of Caprona, he entered a world of wonder, terror and danger beyond the imagination of any man - except the imagination of Edgar Rice Burroughs, author of Out Of Time's Abyss.
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IN the lost valleys of Caspak, a land forgotten by time and shielded form the world by uncharted seas and towering cliffs, a group of marooned adventurers struggled for survival.

The English seaman Bradley, entering Caspak to search for the lost explorers, found a world of terror and wonder beyond imagination. Flying reptiles battled Bronze Age barbarians, while death took a thousand terrible forms in the primeval jungles. But when Bradley dared to enter the hidden heart of the mysterious continent, he stumbled upon Caspak's final and most terrible secret. 

There, in a city of hte damned, where teh streets were paved with human skulls, Bradly found forbidden love - and faced the deadliest peril of all ...
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    AIR RAID

Bradley felt gooseflesh  rise on  his body, and it was with difficulty that he refrained from firing upon nocturnal intruder. While his attention was riveted on the grim, winged thing circling before him, there swooped silently out of the black night behind him another ghostly shape.
So great was the impact when the thing struck Bradley between his shoulders, that he was half stunned. His rifle flew from his grasp. He felt claw-like talons seize him and sweep him off his feet. A cry of warning was forced back into his lungs as he was borne rapidly upward into the inky sky ...
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