The Lost Continent: The Story of Atlantis

by C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne, Harry Turtledove (Introduction), Gary Hoppenstand (Afterword)

Overview

The finest tale ever written of fabled Atlantis, The Lost Continent is a sweeping, fiery saga of the last days of the doomed land. Atlantis, at the height of its power and glory, is without equal. It has established far-flung colonies in Egypt and Central America, and its mighty navies patrol the seas. The priests of Atlantis channel the elemental powers of the universe, and a powerful monarch rules from a staggeringly beautiful city of pyramids and shining temples clustered around a sacred mountain.

Mighty Atlantis is also decaying and corrupt. Its people are growing soft and decadent, and many live in squalor. Rebellion is in the air, and prophecies of doom ring forth. Into this epic drama of the end of time stride two memorable characters: the warrior-priest Deucalion, stern, just, and loyal, and the Empress Phorenice, brilliant, ambitious, and passionate. The old and new Atlantis collide in a titanic showdown between Deucalion and Phorenice, a struggle that soon affects the destiny of an entire civilization.

C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne (1866-1944) was a popular novelist, author of the "Captain Kettle" adventures. Harry Turtledove, a winner of the Hugo Award, is the author of such novels as How Few Remain and Guns of the South. Gary Hoppenstand is a professor of American thought and language at Michigan State University. He is the author of Clive Barker's Short Stories: Imagination as Metaphor in the Books of Blood and Other Works and the editor of Popular Fiction: An Anthology, which won the Popular Culture Association's National Book Award.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803273320
Publisher:	UNP - Bison Books
Publication date:	11/01/2002
Series:	Bison Frontiers of Imagination
Pages:	259
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.58(d)
Lexile:	1230L (what's this?)

About the Author

C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne (1866–1944) was a popular novelist, author of the "Captain Kettle" adventures. Harry Turtledove, a winner of the Hugo Award, is the author of such novels as How Few Remain and Guns of the South. Gary Hoppenstand is a professor of American thought and language at Michigan State University. He is the author of Clive Barker's Short Stories: Imagination as Metaphor in the Books of Blood and Other Works and the editor of Popular Fiction: An Anthology, which won the Popular Culture Association's National Book Award.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	ix
	Prefatory--The Legatees of Deucalion	1
1	My Recall	11
2	Back to Atlantis	22
3	A Rival Navy	31
4	The Welcome of Phorenice	39
5	Zaemon's Curse	50
6	The Biters of the City Walls	65
7	The Biters of the Walls (Further Account)	79
8	The Preacher from the Mountains	89
9	Phorenice, Goddess	100
10	A Wooing	110
11	An Affair with the Barbarous Fishers	123
12	The Drug of Our Lady the Moon	136
13	The Burying Alive of Nais	151
14	Again the Gods Make Change	163
15	Zaemon's Summons	177
16	Siege of the Sacred Mountain	185
17	Nais the Regained	200
18	Storm of the Sacred Mountain	213
19	Destruction of Atlantis	226
20	On the Bosom of the Deep	237
	Afterword	241