''Savage Pellucidar'' is a 1963
fantasy
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story collection by American writer
Edgar Rice Burroughs, the seventh and final book in his series about the fictional "
hollow earth" land of
Pellucidar
Pellucidar is a fictional Hollow Earth invented by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs for a series of action adventure stories. In a crossover event, Tarzan, who was also created by Burroughs, visits Pellucidar.
The stories initially involv ...
. It was published twelve years after Burroughs's death.
Like a number of other posthumously published books by Burroughs, this book is not a novel but a collection of short stories. The first three stories, ''The Return to Pellucidar'', ''Men of the Bronze Age'' and ''Tiger Girl'', were published in the magazine''
Amazing Stories
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''in February, March, and April 1942. The fourth story, ''Savage Pellucidar'', was published for the first time in November 1963 after being discovered in a safe by Burroughs' son Hulbert in the early 1960s.
Stories
*"The Return to Pellucidar"
*"Men of the Bronze Age"
*"Tiger Girl"
*"Savage Pellucidar"
Plot
*In "The Return to Pellucidar", David Innes goes for a war and becomes a
POW again, while Abner Perry makes a balloon which escapes with Dian the Beautiful in it.
*In "Men of the Bronze Age", Dian meets the people who have advanced to a
Bronze Age
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cultural level and is taken to be a goddess.
*In "Tiger Girl", David Innes goes after Dian in another balloon and plays the role of a god.
*In "Savage Pellucidar", two separate search parties look for the lost ones with neither knowing that the other has already found the one they are seeking.
Copyright
The
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for this story was renewed in the United States on 9 December 1991 by
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. (renewal reference number: RE0000570901).
The copyright should therefore expire in the United States on 1 January 2059. The copyright for this story has expired in Australia, and thus now resides in the
public domain
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there. The text is available via
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References
External links
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ERBzine C.H.A.S.E.R ENCYCLOPEDIA entry for ''Savage Pellucidar''
{{Burroughs (books)
1963 short story collections
American adventure novels
American fantasy novels
American science fiction short stories
Fantasy short story collections
Novels about dinosaurs
Pellucidar novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Science fiction short story collections
Short story collections by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Works originally published in Amazing Stories