{"product_id":"the-moon-pool-von-a-merritt","title":"The Moon Pool","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Moon Pool, in novel form, is a combination and fix-up of two previously-published short stories: ¿The Moon Pool,¿ and ¿Conquest of the Moon Pool.¿ Initially serialized in All-Story Weekly, Merritt made the interesting choice of framing the novel as a sort of scientific retelling, going so far as to include footnotes from fictional scientists, to give this completely fantastic work an air of authenticity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn it we find the adventuresome botanist William T. Goodwin embarking on a quest to help his friend Throckmortin, whose wife and friends have fallen victim to a mysterious temple ruin on a remote South Pacific island. A series of coincidences provides Goodwin with a colorful cast of accompanying adventurers, and they soon find themselves in a mysterious futuristic underworld.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Moon Pool is an important entry in the Lost World genre, in no small part because it was a significant influence on H. P. Lovecraft¿hints of The Moon Pool can be seen in his short story ¿The Call of Cthulhu,¿ and hints of Merritt¿s Nan-Madol can be seen in Lovecraft¿s R¿lyeh.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToday, The Moon Pool is a pulp classic, featuring many of the themes, tropes, and archetypes that characterized so many of the pulp adventure works of the era.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9791041805907\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe Enigma of the Moon Pool: A Journey into the Unknown\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9791041805907","offer_id":46925422920005,"sku":"9791041805907","price":26.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/b9fbedbd-90e5-4c65-94cb-1ed6be847a4a.jpg?v=1765609448","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/the-moon-pool-von-a-merritt","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}