- Drome (novel)
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Drome 
Dust-jacket from the first editionAuthor(s) John Martin Leahy Illustrator John Martin Leahy Country United States Language English Genre(s) Fantasy novel Publisher Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc. Publication date 1952 Media type Print (Hardback) Pages 295 pp ISBN NA OCLC Number 5979793 Drome is a fantasy novel, written and illustrated by John Martin Leahy. It was first published in book form during 1952 by Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc. in an edition of 1,000 copies. The novel was originally serialized in the magazine Weird Tales in five parts beginning January 1927.
Plot introduction
Two explorers travel miles beneath Mount Rainier and discover a cavernous realm, filled with glowing mist, called Drome, which is home to a lost civilization and fantastic animals, including bat-apes, snake-cats, and tree-octopi.
Reception
P. Schuyler Miller, although noting the story quaint by more modern standards, praised "its classical quotations, bolstering allusions to dubious science, and real warmth and humor."[1] Everett F. Bleiler faulted the novel for doing little to explain its mysteries and for being "greatly padded with 'philosophy of life', quotations from various authorities scientific and philosophical, lists of great men, and exclamations and comments in Siwash."[2]
References
- ^ "The Reference Library", Astounding Science Fiction, May 1953, p.145
- ^ *Bleiler, Everett Franklin; Richard Bleiler (1991). Science-Fiction, The Early Years. Kent State University Press. pp. 430. ISBN 978-0873384162.
- Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd.. pp. 271.
- Clute, John; Peter Nicholls (1995). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. New York: St. Martin's Griffin. pp. 699. ISBN 0-312-13486-X.
- Tuck, Donald H. (1978). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent. pp. 268. ISBN 0-911682-22-8.
Categories:- 1952 novels
- American fantasy novels
- Novels first published in serial form
- Works originally published in Weird Tales
- Novels set in Washington (state)
- 1950s novel stubs
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