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I'm in a mood and that mood is hot air balloons, steampunk time travel, The Mummy (1999, obviously), discovering Atlantis, mild peril, clunky submersibles, lost jungle temples, cursed relics, accident-prone botanists and their long-suffering guides. Sci fi back when it used to be scientific romance - a nice article on which is Before Sci-Fi Was Cool: Scientific Romance. And adventure fiction. Mostly a very Voyages extraordinaires feeling. This mood has been going a while it seems because I wrote about neo-pulp and wanting an adventure revival in December last year. First things first, some obvious omissions. I haven't read the first of Verne's voyages extraordinaires, Five Weeks in a Balloon, and it's been a while since Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas. I'm pretty up on my Wells, also recently ACD's The Lost World, but I've never read any Haggard. I'd also like to point out the predictable problems with reading 1930s pulp. I love the Egyptology of it all, as a basis for a fun…

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