Wow... You're right. I haven't read them since high school, which is roughly 3 decades, so it's a miracle that I can remember it at all. But didn't Doyle also have a "primitive world" book or series?
I don't recall ever having read Gene Wolfe.
Mark
Gene Wolfe rules. According to his bio he not only is an awesome writer, but helped invent the machine that makes Pringles, if you can believe it. His most famous books are the tales of Urth, which is earth millions of years from now, sorta like Jack Vance’s Dying Earth series.
He uses this literary device called the ‘the unreliable narrator’ in a lot of the books I have read from him, which makes his novels a lot of work, but very, very rewarding. He is also a Catholic convert who incorporates Catholic imagery into his work which I dig.
Sir Doyle wrote the Lost World, I think.
Freegards