The Moon Pool
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The Moon Pool is a fantasy novel by American writer Abraham Merritt. It originally appeared as two short stories in All-Story Weekly: "The Moon Pool" and its sequel, "Conquest of the Moon Pool". These
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Argosy All-Story Weekly cover in which The Moon Pool was first published (June 22, 1918)
Lost world
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Lost world is a subgenre of the fantasy or science fiction genres that involves the discovery of an unknown Earth civilization and/or lands with creatures thought to be extinct. It began as a subgenre
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…in 1919. The protagonist, Dr. Goodwin, would later appear in Merritt's second novel The Metal Monster (1920). Although Merritt did not invent the "lost world" novel—he followed in the footsteps of Bulwer-Lytton, Burroughs, Conan Doyle, and others—this work extended the tradition. The plot concerns an advanced…
First Edition Cover of King Solomon's Mines, by H. Rider Haggard considered by some the first lost world narrative.