Lost world

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Lost world is a subgenre of the fantasy or science fiction genres that involves the discovery of an unknown Earth civilization and/or lands with creatures thought to be extinct. It began as a subgenre of the late-Victorian adventure romance and remains popular into the 21st century.

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Image: Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.