Adrift in the Unknown; or Queer Adventures in a Queer Realm
William Wallace Cook
A delightful, imaginative, and sometimes silly adventure in early science fiction. Join a noble scientist and some of his less noble associates as they take flight in a newly constructed, seemingly magical spaceship. After they land on the planet Mercury, they are caught in the crossfire in a war between futuristic Mercurean city-states which wield high-tech weaponry. As they fight for their own survivial and that of their fellow humans, each man is challenged to confront his own moral failings. Set aside your 21st-century knowledge of physics and settle in for a lighthearted, somewhat predictable romp through outer space. - Summary by Amanda Rumbaugh (5 hr 3 min)
Chapters
Lost, Strayed, or Stolen? | 11:38 |
An Uninvited Guest | 20:18 |
The Professor's Feat | 12:43 |
The Plutocrats Reconciled | 15:14 |
Traveling Sunward | 10:52 |
A Landing Effected | 17:02 |
Facing a Mercurial Storm | 25:00 |
The Mercurials | 15:47 |
Learning the Word-Box | 16:43 |
How We Were Catalogued | 18:56 |
The Dilemma of Mr. Meigs | 20:58 |
Condemned to Death | 21:11 |
A Threatening Calamity | 19:04 |
Plan to Steal a Building | 10:14 |
Surveying our Own Planet | 12:28 |
How Ill Luck Overtook Me | 14:28 |
A Change of Heart | 17:07 |
How We Outwitted the King | 16:06 |
Back to Earth | 7:22 |