Tales of inhuman sentient creatures, distressed princesses, and mysterious lost lands, especially Atlantis, in the works of Jane Gaskell provide fare of interest to readers of both science fiction and fantasy. Nevertheless, except for such details as her version of ancient Atlantis having been separated from the Americas by science rather than magic, and the fact that her Earth has no moon because the former, prehistoric moon was pulled into the ocean a millennium or so before the events of the Atlantis tales, the science is of little more narrative use than as a perfunctory general setting. Gaskell herself prefers fantasy; in Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature: A Checklist, 1700-1974 (1979) R. Reginald quotes Gaskell's comments about seeing science fiction as "a vehicle by so many pamphleteers whose interest is in lecturing us: telling us how we should achieve utopia, or how naughty we are to contaminate our earth...