The "pulling" theme of lost Atlantis has influenced several science fiction novels by various authors. One of the ones I have singled out and read as a child and which is still in my library is the novel entitled "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas" by the Frenchman Jules Verne. It contains a wonderful description of the underwater city by the narrator and the Captain "Nemo" of the submarine "Nautilus" Its depiction of Captain Nemo's underwater ship, the Nautilus, is regarded as ahead of its time, since it accurately describes many features of today's submarines, which in the 1860s were comparatively primitive vessels. A model of the French submarine Plongeur (launched in 1863) figured at the 1867 Exposition Universelle, where Jules Verne examined it and was inspired by it when writing his novel.