Plutonia (novel)
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| Author | Vladimir Obruchev |
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| Original title | Плутония |
| Language | Russian |
| Genre | Science fiction novel |
Publication date | 1924 |
| Publication place | Russia |
Plutonia (Плутония) is an early science fiction novel by Russian academician Vladimir Obruchev. It was written in 1915 in Kharkov and first published in the original Russian in 1924.
Plot
The title Plutonia refers to the novel's setting in a lost land. It is an underground world having its own sun, called Pluto for the Roman god of the underworld. The terrain is marked by dramatic geographic features and inhabited by prehistoric animals and primitive people. These are essentially the animal and plant life of previous geological periods in their natural surroundings. As the characters venture deeper into the underground area, they encounter more and more ancient life forms, back to dinosaurs and other Jurassic species.[1]
Prehistoric animals featured
Non-avian dinosaurs
Other extinct reptiles
- Deinosuchus
- Ichthyosaurus
- Megalochelys
- Plesiosaurus
- Pteranodon
- Unidentified Archosaur
Other prehistoric animals included
Mammals
- Cave Bear
- Cave Lion
- Glyptodon
- Gomphotherium
- Megacerops
- Megaloceros
- Neanderthal
- Paraceratherium
- Smilodon
- Uintatherium
- Unidentified Creodont
- Woolly Mammoth
- Woolly Rhino
Birds
In translation
Besides English, the novel has been published in other languages: Spanish (1953), German (1953), Finnish (1954), Ukrainian (1955), French (1955), Czech (1941), Hungarian (1956), Romanian (1956), Latvian (1957), Portuguese (1960), and Polish (1966).[2]
See also
References
- ^ "Goodreads: Plutonia, by Vladimir Obruchev".
- ^ "Editions of Plutonia by Vladimir Obruchev". www.goodreads.com.
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