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A review by colinandersbrodd
At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs
5.0
Combining a Hollow Earth and Lost World for a different kind of pulp adventure . . .
It seems a little dated now. A Hollow Earth was still considered a somewhat serious possibility by some when this was written in 1914, and the heroes seem a bit sexist, racist, and colonialist by modern standards . . . but it is still a well-told and thrilling tale of two men who are experimenting with a prospecting vehicle, an "Iron Mole," and end up in a Hollow Earth where dinosaurs and megafauna still exist under an inner sun that never sets. They slowly learn about the societies of the inner world, called Pellucidar, which are dominated by a race of intelligent, telepathic avian dinosaurs called the Mahars. The two men resolve to free the humanity of Pellucidar from the evil Mahars . . .
It seems a little dated now. A Hollow Earth was still considered a somewhat serious possibility by some when this was written in 1914, and the heroes seem a bit sexist, racist, and colonialist by modern standards . . . but it is still a well-told and thrilling tale of two men who are experimenting with a prospecting vehicle, an "Iron Mole," and end up in a Hollow Earth where dinosaurs and megafauna still exist under an inner sun that never sets. They slowly learn about the societies of the inner world, called Pellucidar, which are dominated by a race of intelligent, telepathic avian dinosaurs called the Mahars. The two men resolve to free the humanity of Pellucidar from the evil Mahars . . .