Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels. Fred Ashley's "The Temple of Fire, Illustrated Edition" is the sixteenth installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series, and it features a plethora of typical lost world-lost race thrills. Ashley, whose real name was Frank Atkins, wrote any number of LWLR novels back in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and in all of them he made sure they were packed to the gills with ancient civilizations, strange sea creatures, uncharted islands, monstrous beasts, and unknown realms in which his protagonists always ended up fighting for their lives. "The Temple of Fire" is certainly no different. From the first to the last page it never lets up, sending its heroes into swamp-infested seas and uncharted islands; pitting them against underwater monsters, people with webbed feet, gigantic flying skate fish, flesh-eating plants, and an ancient, not-too-friendly civilization, with some mean-spirited high priests thrown in for good measure. There's so much excitement you'll find yourself out of breath after just turning a few pages!