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Fantascience Digest, v. 2, issue 5, July-September, 1939

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FANTASCIENCE DIGEST                   Page 20

Life is a constant and exciting battle with these terrible creatures until Stern builds a skiff in which he and his companion escape to a new home far down the Hudson.

With the coming of winter Stern and Beatrice start southward to find a more suitable home through the cold months. Their boat is wrecked in an exciting scene in which they plunge over a cataract into the vortex of a maelstrom, but they escape with their lives and, equipped with nothing but their bare hands, fight through the wilderness until they reach a city large enough to contain weapons and supplies. Upon finding an airplane there, Stern is sent into a rhapsody of joy. He repairs the plane and they fly westward toward Chicago.

They find themselves eventually upon the lip of the terrific abyss from whence the world's second satellote has been torn, and not knowing the width of the chasm are dubious about crossing it, but finally decide to try and fly it. They meet with disaster and due to engine failure are forced to bank down, down, down into a seemingly bottomless pit. Alighting on the bosom of an inner ocean they are rescued by a race descended from humans who had fled into caves in the long ago to escape the cataclysm. This weakened and ensavaged race takes them in as prisoners, and Stern is able by his giant strength and ingenius science to make himself chief of the dark world -- only, however, after battling to the death with a monstrous wrestler who returns from a long journey to claim leadership.

In his ascension to power he incurs the enmity of one H'yemba, the only actual villain in the whole trilogy.

Stern repairs the airplane and he and Eve, together with an old, old man who has remembered English speech and history, fly to the top of the chasm, alighting upon the opposite side from which they had first attempted the journey. The old man sees the sunlight for the first time and dies in rapture at the sight.

"THE AFTERGLOW" tells of the rebuilding of a world. Stern makes flight after flight into the chasm, returning each time with a full complement of underworld dwellers. After the whole tribe has reached the surface via airplane and by way of a crevasse which has fortunately been found to reach to the very surface, civilization resumes its upward climb. A town is built, railroads are constructed, and farming is undertaken.

But not without struggle, terror and privation. Eve is once kidnapped by a giant gorilla which Stern tracks down and kills. Upon another occasion H'yemba leads an almost successful revolt but Stern kills him and throttles the rebellion. Again the tribe is menaced by THE PACK met back in New York, which has trailed Stern even to this place. The dwellers wipe out these inimical entities in a holocaust of flame which also destroys hundreds of miles of surrounding countryside.

From this point on, everything progresses happily for all. More children come to Eve and her Engineer, the first one having been born during one of Stern's trips into the Abyss, and intermarry with the innerdwellers. In time, when Stern has reached the age of sixty as he computes it, or actually 2060 as history might, the dwellers have spread

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FANTASCIENCE DIGEST Page 20 Life is a constant and exciting battle with these terrible creatures until Stern builds a skiff in which he and his companion escape to a new home far down the Hudson. With the coming of winter Stern and Beatrice start southward to find a more suitable home through the cold months. Their boat is wrecked in an exciting scene in which they plunge over a cataract into the vortex of a maelstrom, but they escape with their lives and, equipped with nothing but their bare hands, fight through the wilderness until they reach a city large enough to contain weapons and supplies. Upon finding an airplane there, Stern is sent into a rhapsody of joy. He repairs the plane and they fly westward toward Chicago. They find themselves eventually upon the lip of the terrific abyss from whence the world's second satellote has been torn, and not knowing the width of the chasm are dubious about crossing it, but finally decide to try and fly it. They meet with disaster and due to engine failure are forced to bank down, down, down into a seemingly bottomless pit. Alighting on the bosom of an inner ocean they are rescued by a race descended from humans who had fled into caves in the long ago to escape the cataclysm. This weakened and ensavaged race takes them in as prisoners, and Stern is able by his giant strength and ingenius science to make himself chief of the dark world -- only, however, after battling to the death with a monstrous wrestler who returns from a long journey to claim leadership. In his ascension to power he incurs the enmity of one H'yemba, the only actual villain in the whole trilogy. Stern repairs the airplane and he and Eve, together with an old, old man who has remembered English speech and history, fly to the top of the chasm, alighting upon the opposite side from which they had first attempted the journey. The old man sees the sunlight for the first time and dies in rapture at the sight. "THE AFTERGLOW" tells of the rebuilding of a world. Stern makes flight after flight into the chasm, returning each time with a full complement of underworld dwellers. After the whole tribe has reached the surface via airplane and by way of a crevasse which has fortunately been found to reach to the very surface, civilization resumes its upward climb. A town is built, railroads are constructed, and farming is undertaken. But not without struggle, terror and privation. Eve is once kidnapped by a giant gorilla which Stern tracks down and kills. Upon another occasion H'yemba leads an almost successful revolt but Stern kills him and throttles the rebellion. Again the tribe is menaced by THE PACK met back in New York, which has trailed Stern even to this place. The dwellers wipe out these inimical entities in a holocaust of flame which also destroys hundreds of miles of surrounding countryside. From this point on, everything progresses happily for all. More children come to Eve and her Engineer, the first one having been born during one of Stern's trips into the Abyss, and intermarry with the innerdwellers. In time, when Stern has reached the age of sixty as he computes it, or actually 2060 as history might, the dwellers have spread