Plutonia (novel)

Summary

Plutonia (Плутония) is a science fiction novel in the "lost world" genre by Russian academician and writer Vladimir Obruchev. It was written in 1915 in Kharkov and first published in the original Russian in 1924.

Plutonia
AuthorVladimir Obruchev
Original titleПлутония
CountryRussia
LanguageRussian
GenreScience fiction novel
Publication date
1924

Plot edit

The title Plutonia refers to the novel's setting in a underground world with the source of light and heat turned out to be Earth's core, which the explorers 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]

Translations edit

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 edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Goodreads: Plutonia, by Vladimir Obruchev".
  2. ^ "Editions of Plutonia by Vladimir Obruchev". www.goodreads.com.