The Hidden World by Edmond Hamilton

Like a giant replica of some strange anthill was this unutterably alien world hidden here at the heart of earth’s colossal shell, and as we sank downward through its levels in the great well, pausing in our vain search at level after level, gazing across those swarming levels, we could make out vast mechanisms and contrivances some of which were quite incalculable in purpose, others being more or less clear in principle at least to our watching eyes.In our last episode we read a story by Clare Winger Harris from the Fall 1929 issue of Hugo Gernsback's Science Wonder Quarterly, a caper about a guy in a love triangle who replaced most of his body with mechanical components. I commented on how attractive the magazine was, adorned with a ton of compelling illustrations by Frank R. Paul, and mentioned the included story by Edmond Hamilton, one of our favorites here at MPorcius Fiction Log. Today let's read that Hamilton piece, which seems long enough to deserve its own blog post--when it…