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Issue Details: First known date: 1924... 1924 Koi; or The Thing Without Any Bones
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Posits the suggestion that Ancient Egyptians arrived in Australia prior to European explorers, and encountered the extant First Nations civilisations.

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  • Epigraph:

    Verily I have begotten mankind! Where is he?
    Like the sons of the fishes, he filleth the sea." — Extract from a verse of the best preserved of the fragments inscribed with the Babylonian account of the flood from Kouyunyik (Mosul), and now in the British Museum.
    "Out of Egypt I have called my Son." — Matthew, ii. 15.
    "These things saith He who holdeth the Seven Stars in His right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks." — Revelation, ii. 1.
    "ln my Father's house are many mansions. If it were not so, I would have
    told you." — John, xiv. 2.
    "The spirit of the Lord filleth the world, and that which containeth all things hath knowledge of the Voice." — Wisdom of Solomon, i., 7.
    "She saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion, girded with girdles upon thei loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look at, after the manner of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their nativity." —Ezekiel, xxiii., 14-5.
    "Pericles with ten ships."
    "Rara avis in terris nigroque simillima Cygno." — Juvenval.

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First known date: 1924
Serialised by: The Queenslander 1866 newspaper (2603 issues)
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Serialised in The Queenslander in six instalments: 18 October – 22 November 1924.
Link: Access online Sighted: 14/01/2020
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Lost Worlds Australia : Early Australian Science Fiction Lost Worlds Australia : 13 Classic Tales; Lost Worlds Australia : 16 Classic Tales London : Roh Press , 2018 15827253 2018 anthology short story science fiction

    'There has been a lot of speculative fiction written about Australia, even before colonization. The first ‘home-grown’ lost civilization story set in Australia was Oo-A-Deen, or, The Mysteries of the Interior Unveiled, published by an unknown author in the Corio Chronicle and Western Districts Advertiser, in 1847. It tells the story of an explorer who discovers a lost utopian society and falls in love with the daughter of the High Priest. With the rise in popularity of the genre thanks to such novels as Haggard’s She and King Solomon’s Mines many imitators soon followed. Thanks to the imagination of many a writer, the unexplored Australian Outback was soon populated by Atlantaeans, Lemurians, Toltecs, Classical Greeks, Ant Men, Bat People, and even the descendants of Alexander the Great’s mighty army.

    'This Early Australian Science Fiction anthology is a collection of 13 tales considered to be among the most influential Australian works in the lost world genre. They are the works most referred to by researchers and academics when they evaluate Australian colonial science fiction. Some have been made available for Kindle for the very first time and are exclusive to ROH Press.'

    Source: Publisher's blurb (2018 ed.)

         London : Roh Press , 2019
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