Rhythm of the spheres

by A. Merritt

A World Where Robots Reign—and the Last Poet Strikes Out for Freedom!According to a bibliography of Merritt's In April 1934, Merritt published a chapter in "Cosmos. Science Fiction Digest/Fantasy Magazine", titled "The Last Poet and the Robots."This was as a round-robin novel published in 17 installments in the magazine. Later, in the October 1936 issue of "Thrilling Wonder Stories", Merritt published a stand-alone revision of the "The Last Poet and the Robots." He titled this work "The Rhythm of the Spheres."

Genres: Science Fiction

Unknown Binding

First published April 1, 1934

About the author

Abraham Grace Merritt, wrote under the name of A. Merritt, born in New Jersey moved as a child to Philadelphia, Pa. in 1894, began studying law and than switched to journalism. Later a very popular writer starting in 1919 of the teens, twenties and thirties, horror and fantasy genres. King of the purple prose, most famous The Moon Pool, a south seas lost island civilization, hidden underground and The Ship of Ishtar, an Arabian Nights type fable, and six other novels and short stories collections (he had written at first, just for fun). Nobody could do that variety better, sold millions of books in his career. The bright man, became editor of the most successful magazine during the Depression, The American Weekly , with a fabulous $100,000 in salary. A great traveler, in search of unusual items he collected. His private library of 5,000 volumes had many of the occult macabre kind. Yet this talented author is now largely been forgotten.