17 janv. 1741 - Nicolai Klimii iter subterraneum; A Journey to the World Under-Ground By Nicolas Klimius; The Journey of Niels Klim to the World Underground, with a new theory of the Earth and the History of the previously unknown Fifth Kingdom - Ludvig Holberg
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hollow earth, in which a Norwegian spelunker finds a smaller planet, complete with firmament, inside the earth. His curiosity drives him to investigate a strange cave in a mountainside above the town, which sends out regular gusts of warm air. He ends up falling down the hole, and after a while he finds himself floating in free space.
After a few days of orbiting the planet which revolves around the inner sun, he is attacked by a gryphon, and he falls down on the planet, which is named Nazar. There he wanders about for a short while until he is attacked, this time by an ox. He climbs up into a tree, and to his astonishment the tree can move and talk (this one screamed), and he is taken prisoner by tree-like creatures with up to six arms and faces just below the branches. He is accused of attempted rape on the town clerk's wife, and is put on trial. The case is dismissed and he is set by the Lord of Potu (the utopian state in which he now is located) to learn the language.
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Scientific Romance
Early Science Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / Lost Worlds / Ho...
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