Castaways of the Year 2000

Castaways of the Year 2000

Release Date:  //1913
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Length:  310 pages
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Medium:  Literature
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Release Message:  Everson Lumley has returned to his own time and is held responsible for Kelpie's disappearance at which point he returns to the future and adventures ensue. Written by William Wallace Cook.
Description:  Pursued by Detective Klinch, Everson Lumley takes up Dr. Alonzo Kelpie's offer to whisk him off to the year 2000 where Lumley first observes various scientific marvels and then realizes that Klinch is still chasing him through time and into more adventures. That's all in the first book (A Round Trip to the Year 2000; or a Flight Through Time, serialized in Argosy, Jul-Oct 1903). In the second book (Castaways of the Year 2000, in Argosy, Oct 1912 to Feb 1913), Lumley has returned to his own time and is held responsible for Kelpie's disappearance at which point he returns to the future and adventures ensue. [Jul 2013] A sequel, "to Round Trip To The Year 2000 Publsihed ub (October 1912-February 1913 Argosy), did not reach book form. - See more at: http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/cook_william_wallace#sthash.iOdoGlIA.dpuf