{"_id":"65aef0a7954586d7d145948e","title":"The Chamber of Life","author":"G. Peyton Wertenbaker","code":"the-chamber-of-life","publish_year":1929,"words":11168,"image":"lost.jpg","image_alt":"A man wandering through a vast desert. Graphite filter.","publish_source":"Amazing Stories","publish_edition":"Vol. 4, No. 7","publish_scan":"https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v04n07_1929-10_-ifc/page/n53/mode/2up","genres":["sci-fi","mystery","adventure"],"description":"A man wakes up halfway through drowning in a lake. After clambering up the bank, he starts to piece together a strange series of memories of experimental technologies and a strange world full of beautiful nature and even more beautiful people. ","blurb":"“A picture with sound and color, reproducing faithfully the ordinary life about us, its tints and voices, even the noises of the city—or traffic passing in the street and newsboys crying the scores of the afternoon games—vividly and naturally.”","rating":4,"unique_cover":"Etching of a man looking up a hill at a tall tower with a large globe in the distance.","cover_source":true,"has_review":false,"has_collections":[{"code":"frontier","title":"An Endless Frontier","collection_type":"theme"}]}