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Thyra - A Romance of the Polar Pit (Paperback)
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Thyra - A Romance of the Polar Pit (Paperback)
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Loot Price R477
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Review by Darius M. Klein: "A Classic of the Genre" is how Jessica
Salmonsen has described this work. Robert Ames Bennet was primarily
a writer of Westerns, but also wrote two Lost Race romances, one of
which is "Thyra: A Romance of the Polar Pit." The plot concerns a
group of explorers who fly in a balloon to the North Pole, where
they discover, via an opening, that the earth is indeed hollow.
Once inside the earth they encounter Viking and Neanderthal
communities, along with survivals of Mesozoic megafauna. "Thyra"
manages to intertwine the Utopian Lost Race and Lost World
subgenres into a single, action-packed plot which never meanders or
digresses. The first Viking community upon which the heroes stumble
after they enter the bowels of the Earth (and where they find the
eponymous heroine) is an unlikely Christian-Socialist Utopia. As
they penetrate further into the Earth's interior, they encounter
those Vikings who have given themselves over to idolatry and human
sacrifice, along with a community of stereotypically aggressive and
bestial Neanderthals. At the novel's climax, they have a perilous
close encounter with some demonic prehistoric reptiles in the Hela
Pool (a particularly well-written scene). The copy of this work
which I obtained is a photocopy of the microfilm of the original
1901 edition, which has delightfully quaint illustrations; I don't
know if they have been reproduced in the "Lost Race and Adult
Fantasy Fiction" series' edition. Mr. Bennet's other Lost Race
Romance, "The Bowl of Baal," also combines Lost Race and Lost World
motifs, and is recommended here. Of the two, however, "Thyra" is
the better.
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