Till A´ The Seas E-Book

H. P. Lovecraft

• Herausgeber: SAMPI Books
• Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 16

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2025

Beschreibung

Till A' the Seas" by H.P. Lovecraft explores a dystopian future where mankind faces extinction due to intense heat and dryness that render the land uninhabitable. As the earth becomes barren, the survivors are forced to seek refuge by the poles and caves, only to confront the devastating consequences of humanity's negligence. The story paints a bleak picture of the end of civilization and the slow, inevitable decline of the human race.

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Till A´ The Seas

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Till A´ The Seas

H. P. Lovecraft and R. H. Barlow

SYNOPSIS

"Till A' the Seas" by H.P. Lovecraft explores a dystopian future where mankind faces extinction due to intense heat and dryness that render the land uninhabitable. As the earth becomes barren, the survivors are forced to seek refuge by the poles and caves, only to confront the devastating consequences of humanity's negligence. The story paints a bleak picture of the end of civilization and the slow, inevitable decline of the human race.

Keywords

Extinction, Drought, Apocalypse

NOTICE

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Upon an eroded cliff-top rested the man, gazing far across the valley. Lying thus, he could see a great distance, but in all the sere expanse there was no visible motion. Nothing stirred the dusty plain, the disintegrated sand of long-dry river-beds, where once coursed the gushing streams of Earth’s youth. There was little greenery in this ultimate world, this final stage of mankind’s prolonged presence upon the planet. For unnumbered eons the drought and sandstorms had ravaged all the lands. The trees and bushes had given way to small, twisted shrubs that persisted long through their sturdiness; but these, in turn, perished before the onslaught of coarse grasses and stringy, tough vegetation of strange evolution.