“The City in the Sea” by Wilson Tucker. Galaxy Science Fiction Novel No. 11 (1952). Digest size. Cover Art by Ed Emshwiller.
From the introduction:
Who knows whether the strange events of this story might not one day occur?
This is the story of an expedition – a strange and exciting expedition of one man and an army of women.
He had come into the land of the women suddenly – and without warning. Tall, bronzed, muscular, he stood out among their pale skins and meek spirits. And when they learned of the land from which he had come – the land they hadn’t even known existed – they had to follow him to it.
One man and an army of women crossing the remnants of a post-atomic United States in search of the Unknown; it was an amazing trek. Miraculous things happened to the women. New emotions rose up to plague them. Once there was a near mutiny. Another time, seven of their number were killed. But it was when they reached the city in the sea that the strangest thing of all happened. . .
Exciting, imaginative, prophetic, THE CITY IN THE SEA is also something rare in science fiction – a compellingly human story,
“The City in the Sea” by Wilson Tucker. Galaxy Science Fiction Novel No. 11 (1952). Digest size. Cover Art by Ed Emshwiller.
From the introduction:
Who knows whether the strange events of this story might not one day occur?
This is the story of an expedition – a strange and exciting expedition of one man and an army of women.
He had come into the land of the women suddenly – and without warning. Tall, bronzed, muscular, he stood out among their pale skins and meek spirits. And when they learned of the land from which he had come – the land they hadn’t even known existed – they had to follow him to it.
One man and an army of women crossing the remnants of a post-atomic United States in search of the Unknown; it was an amazing trek. Miraculous things happened to the women. New emotions rose up to plague them. Once there was a near mutiny. Another time, seven of their number were killed. But it was when they reached the city in the sea that the strangest thing of all happened. . .
Exciting, imaginative, prophetic, THE CITY IN THE SEA is also something rare in science fiction – a compellingly human story,