More From Atlantis

 

Atlantis is a common inheritance. All authors can refer to it. We have discussed Atlantean references in works by Poul Anderson, Neil Gaiman, JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis. See here. (Scroll down.) Here is another from Gaiman. In Neverwhere, the Angel Islington dreams of/remembers:

huge waves crashing over a city, dwarfing buildings hundreds of feet high;

lightning filling the sky;

rain;

fires;

four million people screaming;

waves swallowing the city;

seagulls pecking at floating bodies.

We do not need to be told that this is Atlantis although in fact the text names the city. Details differ between fictional accounts. Poul Anderson describes not a submerged city in the Atlantic but a volcanic island in the Mediterranean. But this is all Atlantis.