BRADSHAW, William R(ichard)

(1851-1927)

   US writer whose The Goddess of Atvatabar: Being the History of the Discovery of the Interior World and Conquest of Atvatabar (1892) is set in a Symmesian HOLLOW EARTH with an interior sun. The chthonic culture includes a love cult whose devotees regard mild sex without orgasm as leading to perpetual youth. Catastrophic melodrama soon leads to trade relations with the surface (ANTHROPOLOGY; LOST WORLDS). The book is heavily illustrated.

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