Pellucidar
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Pellucidar is a fictional Hollow Earth milieu invented by Edgar Rice Burroughs for a series of action adventure stories.
The Earth being a hollow shell, Pellucidar is the internal surface of that shell, populated by dinosaurs and primitive people. A small sun hangs at the very centre of the hollow sphere, so that it is effectively perpetually overhead wherever you are in Pellucidar. The sun never changes in brightness, and naturally never sets; so with no day/night and seasonal progression, the natives have little conception of time. The events of some books suggest that time is in fact elastic, passing at different rates in different areas of Pellucidar.
The stories involve mining heir David Innes' adventures after he uses an iron mole to burrow 500 miles into the earth's crust.
There is a Tarzan story in which Tarzan finds his way into Pellucidar.
The seven Pellucidar novels:
- At the Earth's Core (1914)
- Pellucidar (1915)
- Tanar of Pellucidar (1929)
- Tarzan at the Earth's Core (1929)
- Back to the Stone Age (1937)
- Land of Terror (1944)
- Savage Pellucidar (1963)
See also
- At the Earth's Core (1976 movie)
External links
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