tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post8293543493228439085..comments2024-03-29T00:32:33.920-04:00Comments on GROGNARDIA: Pulp Fantasy Library: Adventure in LemuriaJames Maliszewskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00341941102398271464noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-38224478861137593632022-12-20T01:45:17.648-05:002022-12-20T01:45:17.648-05:00Of course there are real lost continents.
https://...Of course there are real lost continents.<br />https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2020/06/29/stunning-new-maps-reveal-what-the-lost-continent-of-zealandia-looks-like/?sh=7f52184c22be<br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundaland<br />https://www.science.org/content/article/geologists-uncover-history-lost-continent-buried-beneath-europe<br /><br />Then there's Atlantis (maybe?).<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo_fMcSLp7Q<br /> jdh417https://www.blogger.com/profile/14541882649762424101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-33913330244235306272022-12-19T11:53:37.286-05:002022-12-19T11:53:37.286-05:00A bit more on topic, this story was collected in &...A bit more on topic, this story was collected in "Heroes of Atlantis & Lemuria" (DMR Books, 2019) along with 2 others by Kummer, 5 by Manly Wade Wellman, and 1 by Leigh Brackett.Corathonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15453135801686019143noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-51201795764410154322022-12-19T11:49:44.929-05:002022-12-19T11:49:44.929-05:00You are, of course, correct.You are, of course, correct.James Maliszewskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00341941102398271464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-85346217655554801272022-12-19T11:41:07.377-05:002022-12-19T11:41:07.377-05:00Lost continental nitpick: Lemuria was proposed by ...Lost continental nitpick: Lemuria was proposed by Philip Sclater (a zoologist) as a land bridge in the Indian Ocean to explain the presence of lemur fossils in India and Madagascar, but not in the lands between. Mu was a lost continent in the Atlantic Ocean proposed by an archaeologist named Le Plongeon. An occultist named Churchward later moved it to the Pacific Ocean. The two never-existing continents are often conflated, though.Corathonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15453135801686019143noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-7897403377861828412022-12-19T09:33:34.704-05:002022-12-19T09:33:34.704-05:00I'll say this for it, giving the protag over n...I'll say this for it, giving the protag over nine years to make his way from Crete to somewhere in the Indian Ocean is a pretty reasonable timeframe. Neither rushed nor overly slow, assuming the guy's supposed to be at least in his mid-to-late twenties.<br /><br />I've read a number of Kummer Junior's other stories on Project Gutenberg, all scifi. Not bad at all as I recall. Not sure why he stopped writing, although perhaps WW2 interrupted him and he just never resumed. His bibliography lists a few things from later on - 1942, 1945 and 1950 - but only a few.<br /><br />His father was a fairly successful author and screenwriter as well, with seven films adapted from his work from 1914-1923. <br /> Also had a Liberty ship named after him, perhaps in memoriam - he died in 1943. I suppose his father's death might also have led Junior to make a break with writing. Dick McGeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14521293874696659063noreply@blogger.com