Tag: Victorian
The Guns of the South, written by Harry Turtledove and published in 1992, is one of the classic alternative history novels. It weaves a story around a fascinating premise: ‘What…
King Solomon’s Mines was one of the first of the ‘lost world’ novels. H Rider Haggard published it in 1885 to immense commercial success. It has been hugely influential…
The Coming Race, written in 1871 by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, was one of the first lost world novels and a prototype science-fiction novel. Weirdly, the novel also played a role in…
She by H Rider Haggard is one of the first and probably the most famous of the ‘lost world’ novels. H Rider Haggard published it in serial form in 1886-87…