Bob Mayer

The Atlantis series will be reissued Fall 2007 and Spring 2008 in download format and then in print later in 2008.

Atlantis
Some areas on the Earth’s surface defy explanations, such as the Bermuda Triangle, the Devil’s Sea and a forgotten region of Cambodia. Inside these realms, planes have disappeared, ships have vanished, and, in Cambodia, an entire civilization has been lost. Now the desctructive force behind these mysteries has been revealed. They invaded before. Ten thousand years ago, when they destroyed Atlantis. Now they’re back. (’99)

Atlantis Bermuda Triangle
When a nuclear missile is launched from the waters of the Bermuda Triangle, ex-Green Beret Eric Dane must lead a team into the mysterious depths to confront an enemy which has but one objective–the total annihilation of all life on Earth. (May ‘00)

Devil’s Sea
They have invaded before. Ten thousand years ago. When they destroyed Atlantis. And they have returned. In the jungles of Cambodia, mankind’s ancient enemies waged their first attack. From the depths of the Bermuda Triangle, they tried to launch a global apocalypse. Now, from the bottom of the Devil’s Sea, they rise again. (Feb ‘01)

Atlantis Gate
It begins with ex-Green Beret Eric Danes’s cataclysmic dream-of the earth engulfed in fire more than a quarter of a century ago. Is it a warning of things to come? Or a vision of what once was? And if the world’s end came came in 1962, then where in the world are we today? The answer lies in a war beyond time, with an enemy beyond space, in a military thriller beyond your wildest dreams. (Aug ‘02)

Assault on Atlantis
The Shadows, humanity’s most ancient enemy, have returned. Ten centuries ago, they destroyed Atlantis, and now they want the rest of the Earth to follow. Only ex-Green Beret Eric Dane holds the key to ending this dire threat. (Oct ‘03)

Battle for Atlantis
Traveling through different dimensions–where Washington, D.C., is desolate and Nazi swastikas fly from the Eiffel Tower of modern Paris-ex-Green Beret Eric Dane and his Navy SEALS must take the fight to humanity’s most ancient enemy-to save a dying planet. (Feb ‘04)

The Atlantis-LOST connection

1. The first episode and premise of LOST features a plane crash in a remote jungle area. The first Atlantis book in the series features a plane crash in a remote jungle area. Both planes lose radio contact before crashing. The crashes are such that no one should have survived, yet most on board do. Both crashes result in the survivors getting only enough information about their location to realize they’re all ‘lost’. When some of the survivors enter the plane’s cockpit, they find the top of it ripped open. As they check it, someone is immediately pulled from the torn cockpit and killed by an unknown force. The sound of something large moving outside is heard and the survivors flee the cockpit. (The motif of something large and unseen moving through the jungle re-occurs in Lost and in the books).
2. In the second season finale it’s discovered that the island appears to be part of some strange system of planet-wide powerful electromagnetic anomalies. In the book series the gates are part of a system of planet-wide powerful electromagnetic anomalies.
3. Both feature a radio message replaying a cryptic message that in both cases have no apparent power source. The message is thirty years old in the books and sixteen years old in the series.
4. A character hearing voices (Locke) in the series is very similar to a character in the series (Dane) who also hears voices.
5. The survivors in Lost encounter people who should not be there and were not part of the crash—the Others. The survivors in the book encounter people called the Others, who should not be there and were not part of the crash. Both groups of the Others seem to have a strange agenda, not yet spelled out in Lost, but both battling some other unknown force.
6. The survivors on Lost encounter a polar bear on a jungle island. The premise of the books is that there are a series of gates around the world that connect to each other as well as parallel worlds. In all the books there are numerous examples of creatures being where they shouldn’t be.
7. Central to the entire first season has been the discovery of a ‘hatch’. In the books, inside the area where the plane crashes (an ‘island’ of strange activity) there is a ‘gate’.
8. On the island two bodies are found, referred to as the island’s Adam and Eve: in reality they are Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan. Both characters play a role in the books.
9. One of the survivors in the series turns out to be an undercover CIA plant. One of the characters in the book turns out to be a CIA undercover plant.
10. Some of the survivors spot the remains of a statue as do some of the survivors in the book. The remains of planes, balloons, ships, etc. have also been found through the show, as in the books.
11. In LOST a mysterious black cloud plays a role. In ATLANTIS, the portals in the gates are marked by a black cloud.
12. Relics, such as a slaving ship, from different eras are found on the island. Relics from different eras appear inside the gates in the books.
13. Electronics have a difficult time working in the series. Electronics don’t function inside the gates in the books.
14. People who are dead appear on the island in LOST. People who are dead reappear inside the gates in ATLANTIS.
15. There are additional ‘clues’ and similarities as one goes through the books, which translate directly to the initial seasons of LOST and more that will undoubtedly come up as LOST continues on through future seasons.