 This novel is the story of It's it's about a guy who I Don't even know how to start describing this book. I learned about it from the HP Lovecraft literary podcast HP podcast Dot-com they spent four full weeks for entire episodes Discussing this book and although I wouldn't call this a great book Maybe not even a good book. It was great fun to read because it was so crazy It was written by Pauline Hopkins who I'm learning is considered the most prolific African-American woman writer of her time and I'm ashamed to say I'd not heard of her the novel was serialized in a magazine Over the course of 1902-03 and it was the last of four novels. She had serialized in magazines Okay, I'm gonna try again to describe it. It's about a young man. Who's a medical student He sees an exotic woman with a beautiful voice Singing at a party and later He sees a vision of her in a haunted house Begging him for help and then it turns out she has died in a train wreck and he tells everyone He has a method for resurrecting the dead and he does it And then this poor woman is alive again, but she's lost her memories He falls in love with her there's an expedition to the deserts of Africa where a lost City of magical people is rediscovered and it turns out that they've been monitoring him from afar this whole time It's crazy as hell and like I said, it's great fun to read because it's just all over the place And you don't know what's gonna happen next the experience of reading the book really is made better by your knowledge of who the author is and Why she wrote it it does have a message about race and about how our ideas about race are False that it's a manufactured division Plus the fact that it was a serialized Sensationalistic romance novel that was intended to be crazy and get people hooked on the idea of what's gonna happen next I got to get the next issue. So yeah, I do recommend this You can support 30 second sci-fi and my other projects by becoming a patron There is a link in the description below and visit the 30 second sci-fi tumblr That's my headquarters in addition to my videos. I publish links and updates there every day