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The
Lost World literary genre is a
fantasy or
science fiction genre that involves the discovery of a new world out of time, place, or both. It began as a subgenre of the late-Victorian imperial romance and remains popular to this day. The genre arose during an era when lost civilizations around the world were being discovered, such as Egypt's
Valley of the Kings, the city of
Troy, or the empire of
Assyria. Real stories of archaeological discoveries by imperial adventurers captured the public imagination. Between 1871 and the First World War, the number of published "Lost World" narratives, set in every continent, drastically increased.
The hugely popular
King Solomon's Mines (1885) by
H. Rider Haggard was the first of the Lost World genre. Haggard's novel shaped the genre and influenced later "lost world" narratives, including
Edgar Rice Burroughs's
The Land That Time Forgot,
Arthur Conan Doyle's
The Lost World,
Rudyard Kipling's
The Man Who Would Be King and
HP Lovecraft's
At the Mountains of Madness. Contemporary American novelist,
Michael Crichton, invokes this tradition in his novel
Congo (1980), which involves a quest for King Solomon's mines, fabled to be in a lost African city called
Zinj.
Earlier works, such as Samuel Butler's
Erewhon (1872) use a similar plot as a vehicle for
Swiftian social satire rather than romantic adventure. James Hilton's
Lost Horizon (1933) enjoyed popular success in using the genre as a takeoff for popular philosophy and social comment. That book introduced the name
Shangri-La, a
meme for the idealization of the Lost World as a
paradise.
More recent Lost World books include
Michael Crichton's
Congo and
The Lost World, both of which have been adapted as films.
The Lost World genre is present in many other mediums. In
video games, it's most notably present in
Tomb Raider and its sequels. In
movies, the
Indiana Jones series and Disney's
National Treasure films make use of similar concepts.
The genre has similar themes to "mythical kingdoms", such as
El Dorado.
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