Re: (Tears) The Lost Continent by C. J. Cutliffe Hyne

On Sun, 21 Jul 2024 07:50:41 -0600, John Savard
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On Sun, 21 Jul 2024 13:23:56 -0000 (UTC), jdnicoll@panix.com (James
Nicoll) wrote:
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The Lost Continent by C. J. Cutliffe Hyne
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Phorenice rose from peasant's daughter to empress. Now she wants to
be a god. Deucalion might save Phorenice and Atlantis from Phorenice's
folly with the power of love... but Deucalion has fallen for another
woman.
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https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/set-sail

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Of course, Edgar Rice Burroughs also wrote a book with the same title.
(Although it also had "Beyond Thirty" as an alternative title.)
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That story celebrated isolationism on the part of the U.S. as the
appropriate response to World War I, and was highly offensive to
Canadians as well as to British readers, although readers in those
groups usually could just ignore the offensive elements to read an
exciting adventure story.

I enjoyed it.

As for the Cutliffe-Hyne book, it seems as though it could have been
improved by turning it into a cautionary tale explaining how
modern-day Britain could save itself from sinking into the sea by
adopting a more egalitarian social order - rather than leaving the
inequities of Atlantean society as merely an unquestioned part of the
background.

Wells might have, had he thought of it. But perhaps Cutliffe-Hyne was
too much a part of the existing social order (existing in 1900 in
Britain) for that to be anything he would consider.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"