Edgar Rice Burroughs ~7 hr read

On the first flight of the Barsoom, a Mars-bound crew is drawn instead into the hollow heart of the Moon, a world of human quadrupeds, savage Va-gas, and the beautiful Moon Maid, Nah-ee-lah.

Edgar Rice Burroughs's 1923 novel is a rousing space-opera and lost-world adventure. Vivid, thrilling, gloriously imaginative. Read it for classic ERB, an interplanetary voyage gone astray, a hidden civilization within the Moon, and a sweeping tale of love and war that opens his ambitious Moon trilogy.

In its time

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

Reading it

~7 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

J. Allen St. John