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100 1 _aKirby, Jason
245 1 4 _aThe Floating Island of Madness
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2009
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aProduced from Astounding Stories January 1933.
500 _aRelease date is 2009-07-16
508 _aProduced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
520 _a"The Floating Island of Madness" by Jason Kirby is a science fiction novel that likely dates back to the early 20th century, when pulp fiction was gaining popularity. The story revolves around a thrilling adventure featuring Secret Service agents who encounter a bizarre aerial island populated by individuals driven to madness by a genius scientist. The novel explores themes of madness, the quest for power, and human ingenuity against a backdrop of high-stakes espionage. The narrative follows three Secret Service men—American agent Lieutenant Ainslee, French detective Paul Foulet, and British inspector Douglas Brice—who pursue a mysterious plane over the Arabian Desert. Their chase leads them to the titular floating island, which is revealed to be the hideout of Algernon Frederick Fraser, a brilliant yet insane scientist with a sinister plan for global domination. As the agents navigate the treacherous environment, they discover that Fraser has developed a powerful magnetic ray that draws objects towards him, trapping them on his floating platform. The story intensifies as the agents must outsmart Fraser and his minions to escape the island and thwart his plans, ultimately culminating in a thrilling confrontation and escape that raises questions about sanity, manipulative power, and the fragility of human will. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aScience fiction
830 0 _aProduced from Astounding Stories January 1933.
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29421
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