Mizora: A Prophecy

A Mss. Found Among the Private Papers of Princess Vera Zarovitch: Being a True and Faithful Account of her Journey to the Interior of the Earth, with a Careful Description of the Country and its Inhabitants, their Customs, Manners, and Government.

Mary E. Bradley Lane, 1889

(January 2013)

I’ve not read a huge amount of 19^th Century speculative fiction, but that which I have has always impressed me with the way the authors refused to dick about before getting on with the story.

Chapter One

              Brought low by circumstance, I was set upon by ne’er-do-wells and cast adrift in a strange and wondrous land.