Finding Lemuria
My second great uncle Shaver's first short story was called I Remember Lemuria!, and he later expanded the story into a novella by the same name, minus the "!"
I assumed "Lemuria" was just a word he made up, until I ran across it in Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu last night. So I typed the name of the lost continent into Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemuria_%28continent%29
Interestingly enough, the theory of Plate Tectonics was not solidified until 1962, so I can see why my uncle referred to it.
I'm changing the title of my short story to "Shaver's Legacy". The original title, "Reawakening: A Tale of Lemuria" no longer works.
Research is fun!
I assumed "Lemuria" was just a word he made up, until I ran across it in Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu last night. So I typed the name of the lost continent into Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemuria_%28continent%29
Interestingly enough, the theory of Plate Tectonics was not solidified until 1962, so I can see why my uncle referred to it.
I'm changing the title of my short story to "Shaver's Legacy". The original title, "Reawakening: A Tale of Lemuria" no longer works.
Research is fun!