The Sunken Empire

by Astounding StoriesNovember 15th, 2022

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The Sunken Empire, by H. Thompson Rich, by Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931. The book is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series. You can jump to any chapter in this book here. The author of the book is Professor Martin Stevens, a New York-based professor and author of a book about the lost continent of Atlantis. The Sargasso Sea is an area almost equal to Europe, and covers land of far more recent submergence than Atlantis, according to Plato.

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Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931, by Astounding Stories is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series. You can jump to any chapter in this book here. VOL. V, No. 1 - The Sunken Empire

They tilted her rudders and dove to the abysm below.

The Sunken Empire

By H. Thompson Rich

"THEN you really expect to find the lost continent of Atlantis, Professor?”

Martin Stevens lifted his bearded face sternly to the reporter who was interviewing him in his study aboard the torpedo-submarine Nereid, a craft of his own invention, as she lay moored at her Brooklyn wharf, on an afternoon in October.

“My dear young man,” he said, “I am not even going to look for it.”

The aspiring journalist—Larry Hunter by name—was properly abashed.

“But I thought,” he insisted nevertheless, “that you said you were going to explore the ocean floor under the Sargasso Sea?”

“And so I did.” Professor Stevens admitted, a smile moving that gray beard now and his blue eyes twinkling merrily. “But the Sargasso, an area almost equal to Europe, covers other land as well—land of far more recent submergence than Atlantis, which foundered in 9564 B. C., according to Plato. What I am going to look for is this newer lost continent, or island rather—namely, the great island of Antillia, of which the West Indies remain above water to-day.”

“Antillia?” queried Larry Hunter,

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