During the 1970s, I found this incomplete Sci-Fi novel, whose ending and cover pages were torn off.
I read it anyway, but didn't recognize the style, nor any of the characters.
The time period seemed to be mid-late 20th Century.
The hero was the last live survivor of an advanced Humanoid race, who were being set upon by another, brutish, Alien race, called The Teep. In a last ditch attempt to save themselves, they put themselves into suspended animation, but use their scientific resources to make one of their men immortal, so that he might revive them when and if it becomes safe to come out.
Talk about putting all your eggs in one basket! The plan goes South when, during the process, which took place in the middle of a Teep attack, one of the Teep got to the lab, saw what was being done, realized the significance, memorized the drugs the hero was being injected with, and injected himself. Now the immortal hero was being chased by an immortal Nemesis (and this was like 25 years before "Highlander!")
This goes on for centuries. The rest of the Teep die out, but for this last guy, whose only name becomes "The Teep." In some mysterious way, The Teep is always able to recruit Bad Guys to help him chase and torture the hero. it is implied that the hero is never able to recruit his own army of Good Guys to fight The Teep's Bad Guys.
The only proper name I remember from the story seems to be "Delilah," who is one of the people in suspended animation. They are not supposed to be aware of anything, but the hero discovers that when they dream, they can project themselves and interact with him. This saves his life at least once. He was bound and monitored by the Teep's henchmen, and their camera pick up Delilah releasing him from his bonds. The Teep recaptures him and asks him about her (he is not the brightest light bulb).
At some point, he picks up a medical doctor sidekick, and while they were in the clutches of the henchmen, the hero puts one over on them by speaking to the doctor in Latin, which he guesses he would understand, but they wouldn't,
Later they escape, and he remembers that he scribed the coordinates of his peoples' base on a diamond, in case he forgot where it is (more eggs-in-basket strategy). He retrives the diamond, and before he tells his new pal where their lost citadel is, he has to dramatically faint! (Sensitive guy, I guess.) He wakes up, and tells the doctor that his race went into hibernation in Atlantis.
All they have to do now, is discover where Atlantis was- he didn't remember that, either.
The last thing I remember is that they went out to sea somewhere, and he was going to dive down and find Atlantis.
I read it anyway, but didn't recognize the style, nor any of the characters.
The time period seemed to be mid-late 20th Century.
The hero was the last live survivor of an advanced Humanoid race, who were being set upon by another, brutish, Alien race, called The Teep. In a last ditch attempt to save themselves, they put themselves into suspended animation, but use their scientific resources to make one of their men immortal, so that he might revive them when and if it becomes safe to come out.
Talk about putting all your eggs in one basket! The plan goes South when, during the process, which took place in the middle of a Teep attack, one of the Teep got to the lab, saw what was being done, realized the significance, memorized the drugs the hero was being injected with, and injected himself. Now the immortal hero was being chased by an immortal Nemesis (and this was like 25 years before "Highlander!")
This goes on for centuries. The rest of the Teep die out, but for this last guy, whose only name becomes "The Teep." In some mysterious way, The Teep is always able to recruit Bad Guys to help him chase and torture the hero. it is implied that the hero is never able to recruit his own army of Good Guys to fight The Teep's Bad Guys.
The only proper name I remember from the story seems to be "Delilah," who is one of the people in suspended animation. They are not supposed to be aware of anything, but the hero discovers that when they dream, they can project themselves and interact with him. This saves his life at least once. He was bound and monitored by the Teep's henchmen, and their camera pick up Delilah releasing him from his bonds. The Teep recaptures him and asks him about her (he is not the brightest light bulb).
At some point, he picks up a medical doctor sidekick, and while they were in the clutches of the henchmen, the hero puts one over on them by speaking to the doctor in Latin, which he guesses he would understand, but they wouldn't,
Later they escape, and he remembers that he scribed the coordinates of his peoples' base on a diamond, in case he forgot where it is (more eggs-in-basket strategy). He retrives the diamond, and before he tells his new pal where their lost citadel is, he has to dramatically faint! (Sensitive guy, I guess.) He wakes up, and tells the doctor that his race went into hibernation in Atlantis.
All they have to do now, is discover where Atlantis was- he didn't remember that, either.
The last thing I remember is that they went out to sea somewhere, and he was going to dive down and find Atlantis.