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It’s a Vectrex Christmas Miracle!

Also Nintendo 64 and... EverQuest II? Yes, EQ2.

https://chasingdings.com/2025/12/25/its-a-vectrex-christmas-miracle/

#EverQuest2 #Nintendo64 #Vectrex #CleanSweep #CosmicChasm #LostWorlds #viewpoint

Henry Carew’s Vampires of the Andes, a 1925 lost world novel. Inscriptions found in the Andes are linked to unimaginably old civilisations. The metaphysical, quasi-religious, mystical esoteric themes are interesting, if exceedingly weird.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/12/henry-carews-vampires-of-andes.html

#lostworld #lostworlds #lostcivilisation #lostcivilisations #lostcivilization #lostcivilizations #adventure #adventurefiction #weirdfiction

John Taine’s The Purple Sapphire, an excellent 1924 lost world adventure tale. There's a kidnapped girl, an extraordinary sapphire and a genuinely interesting lost civilisation which is no utopia, there are complex heroes and plenty of danger.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/10/john-taines-purple-sapphire.html

#Johntaine #lostworlds #lostcivilisations #lostcivilization #lostcivilizations #adventure #adventurefiction #adventurestories

The Sea Girl is a 1930 lost world novel by Ray Cummings dealing with a lost world in the deeps of the ocean. As a bonus, there are mermaids. Of a sort. There's also a beautiful but evil undersea empress and atomic submarines. A fine adventure.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/09/ray-cummings-sea-girl.html

#lostworld #lostworlds #lostcivilisations #RayCummings #mermaids #pulpfiction #scifi #scifinovel #scifinovels #sciencefiction

In S.P. Meek's 1931 novel The Drums of Tapajos American adventurers find a lost city (with an Atlantis link) in the Amazon rainforest. It's a flawed utopia with a dark side and the tale is interestingly ambiguous. Worth a read for lost world fans.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/07/sp-meeks-drums-of-tapajos.html

#lostworlds #pulpfiction #adventurefiction #atlantis

Watching a #BenFogle thing on 5 Select, in the buffer zone on #Cyprus between the Greek and Turkish areas of the country. Absolutely fascinating to see some of the abandoned #architecture in #Nicosia. One for lovers of #brutalism as you can see from the clip here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v64l6s9qZA

#Brutalist #Urbex #LostWorlds

Just watched an episode of a #BenFogle #documentary mini-series on TV called #LostWorlds. It was taking a look at #Detroit, a bit of its history, the glory days, then after the factories closed down and the drugs moved in. It finished more positively on the urban farms and groups trying to revitalise the city. Some shocking imagery in there of block after block of abandoned or completely destroyed buildings and a fair bit of urban exploration. Interesting stuff.

Dwellers in the Mirage (1932) is one of A. Merritt's superb lost world tales. An engineer discovers he is a warrior from the distant past, and finds a lost world. This book has affinities with sword-and-sorcery. There is action and there is magic, there are strange gods and stranger beliefs.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2012/06/merritts-dwellers-in-mirage.html

#swordandsorcery #lostworlds #pulpfiction #adventure #adventurefiction #scifi #weirdtales #fantasyfiction #fantasy #amerritt

Late 19th/early 20th century French sci-fi/pulp fiction is great fun. Charles Derennes's The People of the Pole (1907) is a sci-fi/adventure and a lost world tale, a genre I love. This one adds some original twists.

It's the tale of a voyage to the North Pole by airship. A lost world of dinosaurs is discovered there but the twist is that the dinosaurs kept on evolving.

https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2010/12/people-of-pole-by-charles-derennes.html

#scifi #sciencefiction #lostworld #lostworlds #scientificromance #airship #zeppelin #BrianStableford

Henry Kuttner's Crypt-City of the Deathless One, a sci-fi novella published in Planet Stories in 1943.

A lost world story, with killer plants and zombies, a deadly plague and a man haunted by his past.

Clever and exciting. Hugely enjoyable.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2022/05/henry-kuttner-s-crypt-city-of-deathless.html

#HenryKuttner #pulpfiction #scifi #PlanetStories #pulpmagazines #zombies #lostworlds #weirdfiction