Dr. Eric Lane's party of five crept across the frozen Antarctic seeking
the discovery of the ages. For that explorer-archeologist was following
the startling account of a sea captain who had fished a lifeless
organism from the nearby waters--a devilish monstrosity which fit no
pattern of nature's.
Dr. Lane knew when he saw it that the creature had been manufactured.
But how could that be? Had there once been intelligences on Earth so
much higher than our own that they could create new life-forms?
But for all his excitement, what Dr. Lane was expecting to find were
fossils, and maybe some ruins. He did not suspect--until too late--that
he was opening a Pandora's box of living horrors.
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