Heads of Cerberus

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Science Fiction

Authors: Francis Stevens In Year : 1919

Book Language: English

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Chapter 1 - "Welcome, However You Come!"
Chapter 2 - "Dust of Purgatory"
Chapter 3 - Arrivals and Departures
Chapter 4 -Where the Gray Dust Led
Chapter 5 - The Weaver of the Years
Chapter 6 - A Matter of Buttons
Chapter 7 - A Few Small Changes
Chapter 8 - Legal Procedure Expedited
Chapter 9 - The Pit of the Past
Chapter 10 - The Fourth Victim
Chapter 11 - Mine and Countermine
Chapter 12 - The New City
Chapter 13 - Penn Service
Chapter 14 - The Threat of Penn
Chapter 15 - The Justice of Penn Service
Chapter 16 - Disaster
Chapter 17 - Their Last Chance
Chapter 18 - The Sword and the Bell
Chapter 19 - Trenmore Strikes
Chapter 20 - Transferred Home
Chapter 21 - The Last of the Gray Dust

A pioneering work in the alternate worlds genre, The Heads of Cerberus was serialized in The Thrill Book in 1919 and published as a novel in 1952. A vial of grey dust transports three unwitting time travelers to a totalitarian version of Philadelphia in the year 2118. While certain landmarks stand unchanged, the societal structure is unrecognizable. Superlative adjectives and numbered buttons have replaced names and an oligarchy wield godlike power over the masses. To return home, the trio must win over the Loveliest, outsmart the Cleverest, and survive a deadly competition. - Summary by Christina Fu