Since Lloyd was a pharmacologist, his novel has provoked speculation that drug use contributed to its fantastic and visionary nature. During the next generation, Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote a series of Hollow Earth novels. It imagined another world in the center of a hollow earth.Īmong John Uri Lloyd's generation, Edward Bulwer-Lytton's The Coming Race was popular and influential. Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth is the most famous book of this type, though many others can be cited. Ideas presented in Etidorhpa include practical alchemy, secret Masonic orders, the Hollow Earth theory, and the concept of transcending the physical realm.Įtidorhpa belongs to a subgenre of fiction that shares elements of science fiction, fantasy, utopian fiction, and scientific (or pseudoscientific) speculation. Drury's adventure culminates in a trek through a cave in Kentucky into the core of the earth. The book purports to be a manuscript dictated by a strange being named I-Am-The-Man to a man named Llewyllyn Drury. Etidorhpa literary clubs were founded in the United States, and some parents named their infant daughters Etidorhpa. Eventually a popular success, the book had eighteen editions and was translated into seven languages. The word 'Etidorhpa' is the backward spelling of the name ' Aphrodite.' The first editions of Etidorhpa were distributed privately later editions of the book feature numerous fanciful illustrations by John Augustus Knapp.

Etidorhpa, or, the end of the earth: the strange history of a mysterious being and the account of a remarkable journey is the title of a scientific allegory or science fiction novel by John Uri Lloyd, a pharmacognocist and pharmaceutical manufacturer of Cincinnati, Ohio.

Etidorhpa the end of the earth