Lost World
The Lost World literary genre is a fantasy or science fiction genre that involves the discovery of a new world out of time, place, or both. It began as a sub genre of the late-Victorian imperial romance and remains popular to this day. The genre arose during an era when lost civilizations around the world were being discovered, such as Egypt's Valley of the Kings, the city of Troy, or the empire of Assyria. Real stories of archaeological discoveries by imperial adventurers captured the public imagination. Between 1871 and the First World War, the number of published "Lost World" narratives, set in every continent, drastically increased