First published as a six part serial for Blue Book Magazine in 1929, the third book of the Pellucidar series shifts its focus away from David Innes to a native of the Earth’s Core by the name of Tanar. This installment has one of the more awkward narrative devices employed by Burroughs that leads to the…
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The Red Hawk: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review
In this final installment of the Moon Trilogy Burroughs forgoes the previous opening format of having the author encounter Julien the 3rd to learn about the further adventures of the his descendants and instead jumps right into the story of Julien the 20th in the year 2430. Taking place three hundred years after the revolution…
The Moon Men: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review
Originally titled by Burroughs as Under the Red Flag the second chapter of the Moon Trilogy was later re-titled The Moon Men with few key and drastic alterations.
The Moon Maid: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review
It seems that Edgar Rice Burroughs and H.G. Wells both held the belief that WWI, or as it was known then as The Great War or The War to End All Wars was just a preamble to bigger conflict and that the world powers would eventually toss the planet into chaos on an even more…
Beyond the Farthest Star: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review
If you had to describe a Burroughs hero in one word that word would be “adaptable” as whether they are dropped into the middle of a danger filled jungle or flung to the far reaches of space they quickly adapt to their surroundings and quickly end up on top.