![]() Instead, the machine bursts through the five-hundred mile thick shell of the Earth into an inner world residing on the inside of the sphere, complete with an eternal sun at the center of the Earth!īurroughs seems to have been very savvy at employing popular scientific and pseudo-scientific theories as settings for exotic adventures. Due to design imperfections, they find the machine impossible to turn around, and end up on a crash course towards the center of the Earth where they expect to meet certain doom in the molten core. ![]() The story begins when Innes and Perry decide to take Perry’s new invention, the “Iron Mole”, for a test drive below the surface of the Earth. I give a description of the story and some observations below the fold. “At the Earth’s Core” (1914) and “Pellucidar” (1923) concern the adventures of David Innes and his friend, scientist Abner Perry, as they explore a prehistoric world that lies within a hollow Earth. This week I finished the first two books of another series, ‘ Pellucidar‘: ![]() I’ve briefly discussed his classic ‘Barsoom’ (John Carter of Mars) series in a previous post. Regardless of what you think of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ writing, he himself was no slacker! Burroughs wrote well over fifty novels in his lifetime, including 26 featuring Tarzan, and used incredibly imaginative, now iconic, settings as backdrops. ![]()
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