Pellucidar

Pellucidar is a thought up by Tarzan author Edgar Rice Burroughs fictional continent that is located on the inner surface of the hollow sphere of the earth. Burroughs thus takes up the theory of the hollow earth. The seven -volume cycle is one of the most famous works of the author.

In contrast to the outside world, the land-water ratio of the area in Pellucidar is exactly the reverse. The land area is about 123.11 million square miles, whereas 41.37 million square miles are occupied by oceans. The world is illuminated by a small sun, exactly located in the center of the Erdhohlkugel and never changed their stand. So prevails in Pellucidar eternal day. Exception is a small region, which lies in the shadow of a small geostationary moon the sun and therefore is called the land of the terrible shadow. Despite the small size of the sun, this is strong enough to ensure a rich life in Pellucidar. Due to the concave curvature of the inner surface of Pellucidar there is no single horizontal line. Everything you see in the distance seems to be located higher and loses itself in an even greater distance in a haze layer.

Hero of the story is the rich heir David Innes, who sets out with his friend Abner Perry, who designed a mechanical mole on a journey deep into the earth to come in new deposits of anthracite coal as. However, due to a design flaw, they are not able to move with their drill the direction so that they drill 500 miles deep through the Earth's crust. There they suddenly come across a fantastic world full of prehistoric life. Upon their arrival, the two friends encounter a Stone Age people, in which they feel so well that they decide to stay there. At the same time awakened in them the desire to civilize the people of Pellucidar and to bring them the technical achievements of the people of the outside world. To this end, undertakes David Innes again a trip back to the outside world, to return with all sorts of important things.

1914 appeared in All- Story Weekly magazine, the first part of the cycle, At the Earth's Core ( dt on the Earth's core ), the 1915, the first sequel Pellucidar followed in All- Story Cavalier Weekly magazine. 1922 and 1923 appeared the first book editions. Only in 1929 did Burroughs Tanar of Pellucidar the third part follow (English Tanar of Pellucidar ), which this time was published in Blue Book Magazine. Immediately afterwards, followed by Tarzan at the Earth 's Core ( Tarzan dt at the center of the earth ) the continuation, the same continued even Tarzan - cycle and both worlds linked together. In 1930 came the book editions. Not until 1937 that appeared only in Argosy Weekly magazine and soon it as a book, the fifth section, entitled Back to the Stone Age (Eng. Back to the Stone Age ). 1942 Burroughs had the same appear four more short episodes, of which Return to Pellucidar (Eng. The return to Pellucidar ), Men of the Bronze Age (Eng. The people of the Bronze Age ) and Tiger Girl (Eng. The Tiger girls) Amazing Stories magazine and Savage Pellucidar " were published in Amazing Stories Quarterly magazine. All of these stories appeared in 1963 under the generic title Savage Pellucidar " in book form. Burroughs wrote in 1944 with Land of Terror ( German Country of Secrets ) the last part of Pellucidar cycle, which appeared at once in book form.

1924 wrote the Russian geologist and geographer Vladimir Obruchev his novel Plutonien, which has some parallels to the Pellucidar books by Burroughs.

With the exception of Tarzan at The Earth's Core Pellucidar the books are not yet available in German language.

The Pellucidar books

• Science fiction literature
• Novel, epic
• Literary work
• Literature ( English )
• Literature (United States)
• Literature ( 20th century)
• Edgar Rice Burroughs