The Beetle Horde - Softcover

Rousseau, Victor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1483702103 ISBN 13: 9781483702100

Publisher: Spastic Cat Press, 2013

Synopsis

While exploring near the South Pole Tommy Travers and James Dodd, of the Travers Antarctic Expedition, crash in their plane and are seized by a swarm of man-sized beetles. They are carried down to Submundia, a world under the earth's crust, where the beetles have developed their civilization to an amazing point, using a wretched race of degenerated humans, whom they breed as cattle, for food. The insect horde is ruled by a human whose fiendish mind now plans to lead his unconquerable horde of monster insects forth to ravage the world, destroy the human race and establish a new era-the era of the insect.

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About the Author

From Wikipedia: Victor Rousseau Emanuel (1879-1960) was a writer of pulp fiction who was active in Great Britain and the United States in the first half of the 20th century. He wrote under the pen names "Victor Rousseau" and "H. M. Egbert". Emanuel first came to the U.S. in 1901. He also lived in Canada from 1912 to 1916, a period during which he wrote most of his best works. Although he began his career as a novelist, he gained popularity for his works of pulp fiction. After an early career as a reporter for the New York World and as an editor of Harper's Weekly, he became a fiction writer. He wrote in a variety of genres, including historical fiction, frontier stories, western romance and crime fiction, but was probably best known as an early exponent of science fiction and fantasy. His best known novels in those genres were The Messiah of the Cylinder, a story of a man placed in suspended animation for 100 years, and The Eye of Balamok, a lost-race novel. Several of his stories were adapted for Western films, and he was the author of one silent film screenplay, The Devil's Tower, based on one of his stories.

Edition details

• Publisher: Spastic Cat Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1483702103
• ISBN 13: 9781483702100
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 82