The Heads of Cerberus

In 1918, three friends from Philadelphia discover a strange powder that transports them to the year 2118. The city of their youth is no longer recognizable: forced to wear identification tags, subjected to annual fights to the death, the citizens of Philadelphia have come under the control of a shadowy regime. The Heads of Cerberus is a novel by Francis Stevens.

About the author

Francis Stevens was the pseudonym of Gertrude Barrows Bennett (1884-1948), an American writer of science fiction and fantasy novels. Born in Minneapolis, Stevens wrote her first story at 17, finding publication in popular pulp magazine Argosy. Believed to be one of the first American women to publish a work of science fiction, Bennett gained a nationwide reputation as a leading short story writer with such tales as "The Nightmare" (1917), "Friend Island" (1918), and "Serapion" (1920). Additionally, Bennett published several novels throughout her career, including The Citadel of Fear (1918), The Heads of Cerberus (1919), and Claimed! (1920). To supplement her writing, Stevens-who was widowed in 1910 when her husband Stewart Bennett died at sea-worked as a stenographer to support herself, her daughter, and her invalid mother. Credited with influencing H. P. Lovecraft and A. Merritt, Bennett is recognized as a pioneering figure in the history of science fiction.

Product details

• Authors: Francis Stevens, Stevens Francis
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.05.2021
• EAN: 9781513281964
• ISBN: 978-1-5132-8196-4
• No. of pages: 166
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 203 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 198 g
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Series: Mint Editions; Mint Editions—Fantasy and Fairytale; Mint Editions (Fantasy and Fairytale)
• Subjects: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy; FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Dystopian, Classic science fiction, Dystopian and utopian fiction