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Originally Posted by Hitch
I'm actually involved, in a thread, on a certain forum (not here), about someone who felt that his book received "slanderous" reviews.
His book is explaining WHY THE EARTH IS FLAT.
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There's a Thai chap on LinkedIn posting links in various forums to a video making that assertion, and has apparently written a book of two on the topic as well.
His posts get "
Somebody please ban this spammer!" responses.
Along with the Flat Earth types, I believe you can still find folks who believe the Earth is hollow, and things like Edgar Rice Burroughs' Pellucidar, or William R. Bradshaw's
The Goddess of Atvatabar are
possible.
(Sometime Tim Powers collaborator James P. Blaylock did a fantasy called "The Digging Leviathan" that was a neat turn on the idea. The protagonist was a teenage boy with a magic power - if he
believed something, it was
true. He found a stack of old pulps in a neighbor's garage with the Burroughs tale, and
believed in Pellucidar. Suddenly,
because he believed it, there
was a Pellicidar, and always had been, and he builds the device of the title to reach it.)
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Dennis