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Subject: Re: (Tears) The Lost Continent by C. J. Cutliffe Hyne
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2024 08:38:00 -0700
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On Sun, 21 Jul 2024 07:50:41 -0600, John Savard
<quadibloc@servername.invalid> wrote:

>On Sun, 21 Jul 2024 13:23:56 -0000 (UTC), jdnicoll@panix.com (James
>Nicoll) wrote:
>
>>The Lost Continent by C. J. Cutliffe Hyne=20
>>
>>Phorenice rose from peasant's daughter to empress. Now she wants to=20
>>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.=20
>>
>>https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/set-sail
>
>Of course, Edgar Rice Burroughs also wrote a book with the same title.
>(Although it also had "Beyond Thirty" as an alternative title.)
>
>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.
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"