First posted in 1891, The Goddess of Atvatabar is a hollow Earth novel in the custom of Edgar Grain Burroughs’ Pellucidar novels. Or rather,Pellucidar is within the tradition from the Goddess of Atvatabar, since Goddess was written 20 years earlier!

Lexington Light, upon inheriting the wealth of his full father, wants to make use of his new-found fortune to become the 1st explorer to attain the North Pole. He units forth along with his hired crew on the Polar King, a massive vapor ship. But instead of achieving their destination, they sail via an starting in the polar area, and discover a huge new world inside the hollow Earth.

Now there, in the utopian nation of Atvatabar, where in fact the people make an effort to perfect both body and spirit, Lexington falls deeply in love with a celibate living goddess, and in doing this, ignites a religious revolution that sparks an all-out civil war, putting the interior world in danger.

Filled with adventure, philosophical reflection, romance, and sprawling sea and aerial battles, The Goddess of Atvatabar is usually a classic of late 19th-century Utopian fantasy literature.