The Hollow Earth & Return to the Hollow Earth

Rucker never wants for new inventions... Irresistible.

-- Washington Post Book World.

Jam-packed with Rucker's dada-gaga, aurora-borealism, and gargantuan playfulness. Rucker is one of my all-time favorite writers. He warms the cockles of my heart and fires up the little gray cells.

-- Philip Jose Farmer.

Terrific... A thrilling-wonder sci-fi novel... Rucker's Poe is the most endearingly repulsive character I can recall having met in fiction.

-- Fantasy & Science Fiction.

Edgar Allan Poe would have loved this book -- and so will you!

-- Robert Bloch, author of Psycho.

A craftily conceived adventure story, full of wonder, beauty and humor ... Goofily outlandish ... The Hollow Earth is a treat.

-- San Francisco Chronicle.

I never doubted that Mr. Rucker knew the way, and I never lost interest in the plucky young Mason and the redoubtable if reprehensible Eddie Poe, who encounters in real life every one of the nightmares he has so memorably to paper.

-- The New York Times Book Review.

It's more fun than anything I've read in I don't know how long, and it's certainly the reigning king of the 'hollow Earth' novels. Rucker has an enviable imagination, an astonishing ear for language, and a rare sense of proportion and humor. I wish books like this would come along more often.

-- James P. Blaylock, author of The Digging Leviathan.