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  • The Crack of Doom

    by Robert Cromie ...
    The story revolves around a young inventor named Hugh Kerhill who discovers a powerful new explosive compound, which he names Treharneite after his friend and mentor Professor Treharne. However, the formula for Treharneite is stolen by a villainous character, leading to a series of dramatic events.The novel explores themes of scientific discovery, ethics in science, and the consequences of ... Read more

    $1.33 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Crack of Doom

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by Robert Cromie ...
    Robert Cromie's The Crack of Doom begins as a recovered warning from the edge of disaster and unfolds into a feverish blend of scientific romance, philosophical speculation, and apocalyptic terror. Aboard ship, Arthur Marcel is drawn into the orbit of Herbert Brande, a brilliant, unsettling thinker who insists that "The Universe is a mistake," and into the life of Brande's sister Natalie, whose ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • The Crack of Doom

    A Romance of Scientific Terror

    by Robert Cromie ...
    Series series Science Fiction
    Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Johan Christian Dahl, Ivan Aivazovsky and Carl Bille. A scientist works out how to release the energy bound in matter and concludes that the world would be better ended, and a small group has to stop him. Cromie published it in 1895, half a century before the physics caught up, and the description of what such a detonation would do is ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Plunge Into Space

    by Robert Cromie ...
    A Plunge into Space was first printed in 1890 and continuously reprinted until 1910, earning the enthusiastic plaudits of Jules Verne. On the return trip they discover a stowaway --a Martian girl. The life-support systems of the ship cannot accommodate and extra passenger, and each crew member has some essential skill for bringing the ship safely to earth. The drama builds with enormous tension to ... Read more

    $6.86 CAD

  • The Crack of Doom

    by Robert Cromie ...
    The rough notes from which this narrative has been constructed were given to me by the man who tells the story. For obvious reasons I have altered the names of the principals, and I hereby pass on the assurance which I have received, that the originals of such as are left alive can be found if their discovery be thought desirable. This alteration of names, the piecing together of somewhat ... Read more

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  • The Crack of Doom

    by Robert Cromie ...
    THE UNIVERSE A MISTAKE! The Universe is a mistake! ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • A Plunge into Space

    by Robert Cromie ...
    Now with an Historical Afterword by Ron MillerFeatured in Ron Miller’s “The Conquest of Space Book Series.” Robert Cromie's 1890 novel contains a detailed description of a spacecraft, a realistic description of the deserts of Mars and some fascinating technological prophecies, such as televised broadcasts of concerts and plays. As most authors of interplanetary stories of his era did, Cromie uses ... Read more

    $5.48 CAD

  • The Crack of Doom

    by Robert Cromie ...
    Science fiction novel, first published in 1895. ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Crack of Doom

    by Robert Cromie ...
    Though first published in 1895, this eerily prescient science-fiction novella contains the first-ever description of what an atomic explosion might look like. Often compared by critics to masterworks such as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and H.G. Wells' The Island of Dr. Moreau, Robert Cromie's The Crack of Doom explores the dangers of unfettered scientific experimentation. ... Read more

    $4.19 CAD

  • The Ultimate SF Collection: 140 Stories od Dystopias, Space Adventures & Lost Worlds

    140 Classic Tales of Dystopias, Lost Worlds, Cosmic Horror, and Space

    by Jules Verne, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, William Hope Hodgson, George MacDonald, Percy Greg, Jack London, Arthur Conan Doyle, Ernest Bramah, Jonathan Swift, Cleveland Moffett, William Morris, Anthony Trollope, Richard Jefferies, Samuel Butler, David Lindsay, Edward Everett Hale, Edward Bellamy, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edgar Wallace, Francis Bacon, Robert Cromie, Abraham Merritt, Ignatius Donnelly, Owen Gregory, H. G. Wells, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Fred M. White, H. P. Lovecraft, Garrett P. Serviss, Henry Rider Haggard, Mary Shelley, Malcolm Jameson, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Otis Adelbert Kline, C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne, Edwin A. Abbott, Arthur Dudley Vinton, Gertrude Barrows Bennett, Hugh Benson, Margaret Cavendish ...
    The Ultimate SF Collection gathers 140 tales of dystopia, interplanetary adventure, scientific speculation, and vanished civilizations into a capacious map of speculative fiction's formative centuries. Its range extends from satirical fable and philosophical romance to Gothic terror, imperial adventure, utopian polemic, and proto–space opera. Visions of submerged continents, engineered futures, ... Read more

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  • Sci-Fi Ultimate Collection: 170+ Space Adventures, Dystopian Novels & Lost World Classics

    170+ Classic Voyages Through Space, Dystopias, and Lost Worlds

    by Jules Verne, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, William Hope Hodgson, George MacDonald, Percy Greg, Jack London, Arthur Conan Doyle, Ernest Bramah, Jonathan Swift, Cleveland Moffett, William Morris, Sinclair Lewis, Anthony Trollope, Richard Jefferies, Samuel Butler, Milo Hastings, David Lindsay, Edward Everett Hale, Edward Bellamy, H. Beam Piper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Aldous Huxley, Edgar Wallace, Francis Bacon, Robert Cromie, Abraham Merritt, Ignatius Donnelly, Owen Gregory, H. G. Wells, C. S. Lewis, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Fred M. White, H. P. Lovecraft, Garrett P. Serviss, George Orwell, Henry Rider Haggard, Mary Shelley, Malcolm Jameson, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Otis Adelbert Kline, C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne, Edwin A. Abbott, Arthur Dudley Vinton, Gertrude Barrows Bennett, Hugh Benson, Margaret Cavendish, Yevgeny Zamyatin ...
    Translated by Gregory Zilboorg, Lewis Page Mercier, Ellen E. Frewer, Eleanor E. King, Agnes D. Kingston, Frederick A. Malleson ...
    Sci-Fi Ultimate Collection gathers more than 170 works spanning the formative centuries of speculative fiction, from lunar voyages, subterranean kingdoms, and imperial "lost worlds" to technological satire, apocalyptic fantasy, and rigorously imagined dystopias. Its extraordinary formal range includes romances, philosophical fables, scientific adventures, Gothic tales, utopian projections, and ... Read more

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  • The Crack of Doom (Dystopian Novel)

    Enriched edition.

    by Robert Cromie, Melanie Harper ...
    In 'The Crack of Doom,' Robert Cromie creates a haunting dystopian world where society is on the brink of collapse due to a catastrophic event. The novel is written in a gripping and suspenseful style, drawing readers in with its vivid descriptions and thought-provoking themes of power, corruption, and human nature. Cromie's use of symbolism and metaphor enriches the narrative, adding layers of ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus