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| rdfs:comment | - Utropolis is the fictional version of Rapture created by Lex Harlan, editor of Visionary Wonder Stories, when editing the writings of RØd Killian Quain (otherwise known as Orrin Oscar Lutwidge). The story describes a technologically advanced city at the bottom of the ocean which Harlan called Utropolis. Other changes to Quain's writing include: Changing Splicers to "Juicers", ADAM to "Transformula", Big Daddies to "Patri-Arkhs", Apollo Square to Mithra Square, and most interestingly, Little Sisters were changed to small, chipmunk-like creatures.
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| abstract | - Utropolis is the fictional version of Rapture created by Lex Harlan, editor of Visionary Wonder Stories, when editing the writings of RØd Killian Quain (otherwise known as Orrin Oscar Lutwidge). The story describes a technologically advanced city at the bottom of the ocean which Harlan called Utropolis. Other changes to Quain's writing include: Changing Splicers to "Juicers", ADAM to "Transformula", Big Daddies to "Patri-Arkhs", Apollo Square to Mithra Square, and most interestingly, Little Sisters were changed to small, chipmunk-like creatures. Lex Harlan would always leave hints to the readers that these were true stories, edited to give them a Visionary Wonder effect. Phil Isidore was the contact who first alerted Mark Meltzer to the existence of these stories. Phil said that in the UFO community there had something called "The Quain question;" a debate about the veracity of these stories and of the eventual fate of Quain, who had mysteriously disappeared. Mark initially dismissed this as nonsense, but over the course of There's Something in the Sea came to realize that the stories were actually rooted in truth.
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