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Path: eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Don <g@crcomp.net> Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Five Works Inspired by the Legend of Atlantis Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2024 17:00:02 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 33 Message-ID: <20240816a@crcomp.net> References: <v9nmlt$t7b$1@reader1.panix.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8stipulation Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2024 19:00:35 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="967498ab188c51fb4aa55b88a286ef85"; logging-data="1592501"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18l8vV+ExHL3inxcZe9N/yd" Cancel-Lock: sha1:rYvDx2A/hBdsWncG8dwBCCPUQu4= James Nicoll wrote: > Five Works Inspired by the Legend of Atlantis > > The Lost City of Atlantis has been inspiring wacky theories and speculative > fiction ever since Plato made it up. > > https://reactormag.com/five-works-inspired-by-the-legend-of-atlantis/ "The earliest mentions of fabled lost Atlantis were, as you know, in two essays by Plato, Timaeus and Critias." ... "I didn’t even mention the role Atlantis played in the Perry Rhodan novels" Thank you for enlightening me to Atlantis' Platonic origins. It ought to prove useful in the future. My inner pedant petitions me to play. Francis "Shakespeare" Bacon's _New Atlantis_ is located in the Pacific, proximally preceding Perry's place called "Lemuria:" <http://lemuria.net/> _Black Tuesday_ (Mayer) puts Atlantis back where it belongs: in the Atlantic. Danke, -- Don.......My cat's )\._.,--....,'``. https://crcomp.net/reviews.php telltale tall tail /, _.. \ _\ (`._ ,. Walk humbly with thy God. tells tall tales.. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' Make 1984 fiction again.