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* In [[Ayn Rand]]'s 1957 novel ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]'', [[Dagny Taggart]] searches for a technologically advanced city many other characters refer to as Atlantis. One of the many stories told of the novel's major character [[John Galt]] was that he had devoted his life to sailing the oceans and searching for Atlantis and finally saw its lights on the sea bottom – though this is a metaphor rather than a literal depiction of the character's life.

* In ''[[Mothstorm]]'' (2008), the final book of Philip Reeve's [[Larklight Trilogy]], it is claimed that Atlantis was a lost continent on which the Mercurians had a colony before they left the Solar System thousands of years ago.

* In A. G. Riddle's ''Origin'' series the Atlantians are a species of human on a separate planet.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Fleming|first=Mike Jr.|date=2015-04-02|title=Fox Lands A.G. Riddle Novel 'Departure' Just As Book Sells To HarperCollins|url=https://deadline.com/2015/04/departure-ag-riddle-fox-harper-collins-1201403423/|access-date=2021-11-22|website=Deadline|language=en-US}}</ref> The 'city' of Atlantis is actually a crashed spaceship, with a larger ship on the moon. The human race has had its genetic evolution accelerated by these crashed Atlantians in their pursuit of science and military domination.

*In his [[Sigma Force]] novel ''The Bone Labyrinth'' (2015), [[James Rollins]] depicts an elaborately decorated and protected, hidden city of Atlantis, located in Ecuador, to which the maps and writings by [[Athanasius Kircher|Kircher]] and his followers lead the characters. A skirmish there, between the protagonists and antagonists, leads to the destruction of the city and its artifacts. Rollins describes Atlantis' creators as Watchers, a superior hybrid species of humans who disseminated knowledge and possibly interbred with people throughout the world.

* In [[Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy]]'s novel ''[[Aelita (novel)|Aelita]]'' (1923), soviet engineer Mstislav Los' and a retired soldier Alexei Gusev arrive on Mars and find a civilization of Atlantis survivors.

* The novella in the December 2005 issue of ''[[Analog Science Fiction and Fact]]'' titled "Audubon in Atlantis" by [[Harry Turtledove]]. In this story, which is an [[alternate history]] tale, Atlantis is not mythical at all, but is the result of the eastern portion of the [[North America]]n [[continent]] (consisting of the present day [[East Coast of the United States|Eastern Coast]] of the [[United States]], extreme Southern [[Canada]], [[Cuba]] and various [[Caribbean]] islands) breaking off from the rest of North America around 85 million years ago. This was followed by several more Turtledove stories and [[Atlantis (series)|novels]] detailing various times and incidents in the history of this Atlantis.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.uchronia.net/label/turtatlant.html|title=Uchronia: Atlantis}}</ref>

 

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