On a Torn-Away World
By Roy Rockwood
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Roy Rockwood
Roy Rockwood was a house pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate for boy's adventure books. The name is mostly well-remembered for the Bomba, the Jungle Boy (1926-1937) and Great Marvel series (1906- 1935). The Stratemeyer Syndicate was the producer of a number of series for children and adults including the Nancy Drew mysteries, the Hardy Boys, and others. The Stratemeyer Syndicate was the creation of Edward Stratemeyer, whose ambition was to be a writer la Horatio Alger. He succeeded in this ambition (eventually even writing eleven books under the pseudonym "Horatio Alger"), turning out inspirational, up-by-the-bootstraps tales. In Stratemeyer's view, it was not the promise of sex or violence that made such reading attractive to boys; it was the thrill of feeling "grown-up" and the desire for a series of stories, an "I want some more" syndrome. Works written under that name include: Five Thousand Miles Underground; or, The Mystery of the Centre of the Earth (1908), Jack North's Treasure Hunt (1907) and Lost on the Moon; or, In Quest of the Field of Diamonds (1911).
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I found this book at an antique shop, an original 1913 edition with a damaged cover and a price I didn't like. But, I liked the cover art and my wife talked me into getting it.I was rather disappointed that nowhere in the book was a description of an airship remotely resembling that picture on the cover. And I was even more disappointed in how offensive this was on so many levels. Two pages in and we're assaulted with "Is eeder ob you boys seen ma Shanghai rooster?" And, after one of the "boys" said "... He is as elusive as the Fourth Dimension.", Washington White (let that sink in) said, "I dunno wot dat 'fourth condension' is, Massa Mark; but dat rooster is suah some conclusive." Yep...Massa Mark. Page 3 tells us that Washington "usually afforded the boys much amusement." Oh, and also on page 3 we see that Washington is a "darkey". Cultural relativism adherents will cry me a litany for my indignation, but this was the 20th century! And more to the point, these were books that young - "white" - boys were turning to. I don't know which of the stable of authors in Edward Stratemeyer's Syndicate wrote this one, but Howard Garis wrote the first five in this Great Marvel series and he also penned several of the original Tom Swift books wherein you'll see he patent racism. Stratemeyer wanted to provide adventure for young children and he had a corner on the market, so the influence of his books was wide and sadly reaching. In addition to the racism against blacks, Native First People are referred to as savages, bucks. And the author's sense of high adventure ran absurd more than once. In one substory, a criminal was believed by a Federal agent to have "joined forces hereabout with ancient enemies of the Federal officers." What "ancient enemies"?? Really? And in an encounter with an eagle, the author said, "Perhaps [...] she feared her hereditary enemy, Man, was coming on wings to deprive her of [her young]." Well..."hereditary enemy". Jeez.Most of the time I can read these and throw away the fake science. They were after all fun aimed at kids. But the premise of this one is absurdly silly. A mountain blown into space (cue the title) to be another moon? With near full gravity and atmosphere. Sure. And the boys' mentor guardian Professor Henderson says in reasoning out what happened that the "surface of the earth is very, very rough." Well, actually, known even at that time, the earth surface is quite smooth. If it were reduced to the size of a cue ball, it would be smoother than an actual cue ball.So. Dilemma. Do I read the earlier books in the series? They're available for free on Gutenberg. I seriously doubt that I'll learn about the winged rigid airship that had nothing to do with the book.