Article: Peter Fitting, ed. Subterranean Worlds: A Critical Anthology.(Book review)

Peter Fitting, ed. Subterranean Worlds: A Critical Anthology. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan UP, 2004. xiii + 225 pp. $29.95

Most readers probably think that the motif of the underground world in utopian or science fiction began with Jules Verne's Voyage au centre de la terre (1864), first translated into English as Journey to the Centre of the Earth in 1872. Peter Fitting's critical anthology of short extracts from fictional and quasi-factual writing about subterranean worlds, in Wesleyan University Press's adventurous and handsomely produced "Early Classics of Science Fiction" series, reveals a lengthy, almost forgotten earlier tradition of writing set in fantastic ...

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