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Originally Posted by freeweed
The vignette in question, or at least the one I remember, described how the town was named after one Flintabbatey Flonatin (bet I spelled that wrong!), a character in an old science fiction novel. It's one of a very few places named after a science fiction character.
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It was a dime store novel called
The Sunless City by the Victorian pulp novelist J.E. Preston Muddock. The story is briefly recounted
here. Only one copy of
The Sunless City shows up on bookfinder.com and it is a bound photostatic reprint published by the Flin Flon library (at over $200).
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