Lamekis, ou Les Voyages extraordinaires d'un Egyptien dans la Terre intérieure, avec la découverte de l'Isle des Silphides. Par M. le Chevalier de Mouhy | 
pick(1735-1738) It's a wildly inventive, uniquely structured story about underground civilizations, cities in the air, and strange kingdoms in faraway lands. It's like a mashup of ideas proposed in a brainstorming session led by Jonathan Swift: Worm people! Toad monsters! Achieving enlightenment through being chewed to death by giant bees! Unfortunately, it's complicated by 18th-century misogyny, but the relentless flood of wild ideas is spec-fic joy
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