The Garrett P. Serviss Omnibus

Astronomer Garrett P. Serviss was "the most accomplished American writer of science fiction in the early part of the 20th century." (critic Sam Moskowitz) Here are his three finest novels compete and unabridged in one ebook. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction hails Serviss' books for their "mythopoetic potency , and triumphant narrative tone." In The Second Deluge, filed with scenes of panic and disaster, the entire surface of the earth is submerged when the solar system enters a watery nebula, and only scientist-hero Cosmo Versal, and a small group of friends who believe in him survive by flying above the flood in a newly invented skyship. In The Moon Metal, a man and woman struggle against the mysterious Pax, a mysterious scientist who may be a savior or villain – or both – seizes control of the world by creating the new metal that is the basis of all wealth. In A Columbus of Space, the first voyage to another planet, carefully realized in terms of the science of the time, leads a band of friends to romance and danger. Over 1000 pages in hardcover.