To the Center of the Earth - Center of the Earth Book 1 (Unabridged)
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4.5 • 12 Ratings
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- $18.99
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- $18.99
Publisher Description
Down there, beyond the deepest caves, below the crust and the mantle, there is another world ...
An old woman locked away in a Russian asylum has a secret – knowledge of a 500-year-old manuscript written by a long-dead alchemist that will show a passage to the mythical centre of the Earth.
She knows it’s real because 50 years ago, she and a team travelled there. And only she made it back.
Today, caving specialist Mike Monroe leads a crew into the world’s deepest cave in the former Soviet Union. He’s following the path of a mad woman and the words of an ancient Russian alchemist that were the basis of the fantastical tale by Jules Verne. But what horrifying things he finds will tear at his sanity and change everything we know about evolution and the world, forever.
In the tradition of Primordia, Greig Beck delivers another epic retelling of a classic story in an electrifying and terrifying adventure that transcends the imagination.
Customer Reviews
Too little sci and too much fi
Never mind the whole setup with the subterranean world and stuff.
First, the Krubera cave isn’t the deepest on Earth: Veryovkina Cave currently is, with its 2,212 meters (7,257 ft) to Krubera’s 2,197 ± 20 metres (7,208 ± 66 ft); and that depth was only reached in 2012–in 1974 neither it nor any other cave in the vicinity had been explored deeper than 310 metres. And all I had to do to find it out was to search Wikipedia... Sorry, no excuses. Next time, do your homework: it’s the 21st century out there.
Speaking of which.
An expedition (two expeditions, actually) are headed down to God knows where, and they haven’t got a single digital camera, or even a lousy iPhone between them? Really?
How hard was it to set the story up here in Australia, for example, where there are well and truly unchartered cave systems, like the Camooweal Caves, that are also well and truly closed to the public now?
No. Do your research, mate. Avatar, Chronicles of Riddick, Star Wars—they’re also not really ‘sci.’ But first, they have other messages to convey—just like The Matrix (please don’t tell me it’s seriously about computers and AI); and second, they at least use the modern day mythology, as opposed to trying to tell a scary story about steamboats getting smarter than humans. Only if humans become more stupid than steamboats.
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