The Heads of Apex
The Heads of Apex
Far under the sea-floor Solino's submarine carries two American soldiers of fortune to startling adventure among the Vampire Heads of Apex.
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e that they were in a vast chamber, undoubtedly the work of human hands; a room awe-inspiring to behold, and even more than awe-inspiring in the reflections it forced upon their minds. Passages radiated on either hand to mysterious depths, and great bulks loomed in the spectral light. Justus Miles gave a low cry of amazement when a closer investigation revealed those bulks to be the wrecks of mighty and intricate machines, the use of which it was vain to conjecture. He looked at Ward.
"Solino spoke of a city down in the ocean. Can this be it?"
Ward shook his head. "Everything here is old, abandoned. Look--what is that?"
* * * * *
The figure of a giant creature, carved either from stone or marble and encrusted with phosphorous, stood lowering in their path. It was that of a winged beast with a human head. Its features were negroid in character; and so malignant was the expression of the staring face, so lifelike the execution of the whole statue, that a chill of fear ran through the
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If this were a movie, and it was in color, and had real sound, then... children would probably like it. If you've reached any sort of maturity, not so much.
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See, these two mercenary friends are hired by a head in a wheelchair to do some fighting for his friends. So they all get into a submarine with their gas bombs and machine guns, but the submarine is more than a submarine. . . .
This is a science-fiction action story where the science doesn't much matter and the action is cartoonish.
This is a science-fiction action story where the science doesn't much matter and the action is cartoonish.
03/12/2013