Edgar Rice Burroughs 3 hr 38 min read

On the eve of Mars Day, 1967, aboard a transoceanic liner, the narrator meets a man whose strange smile compels his liking, and who will tell him an extraordinary tale of a voyage to the Moon.

Edgar Rice Burroughs's 1923 novel is a rousing space-opera and lost-world adventure. Vivid, thrilling, gloriously imaginative. Read it for classic ERB, a framed tale of an interplanetary flight that reaches the hollow interior of the Moon, its human quadrupeds, savage Va-gas, and the beautiful Moon Maid.

In its time

Published in 1923, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

3 hr 38 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).