Line #22 Literature/Pellucidar


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3	''Pellucidar'' is a series of seven novels written by Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs, written and taking place in the [[TheEdwardianEra 1910s]], [[TheRoaringTwenties 1920s]] and [[TheGreatDepression 1930s]]. In this {{verse}}, the [[WorldShapes Earth is hollow]] and there is another world on the inside, called Pellucidar, inhabited by dinosaurs and other monsters as well as primitive humans.
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5	The complete series is composed of the following novels:
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7	* ''At the Earth's Core''. Published in serial form in April, 1914. Book form published in July, 1922.
8	* ''Pellucidar''. Published in serial form in May, 1915. Book form published in September, 1923.
9	* ''Tanar of Pellucidar''. Published in serial form from March to August, 1929. Book form published in May, 1930.
10	* ''Franchise/{{Tarzan}} at the Earth's Core''. Published in serial form from September, 1929 to March, 1930. Book form published in November, 1930.
11	* ''Back to the Stone Age''. Published in serial form from January to February, 1937. Book form published in September, 1937.
12	* ''Land of Terror''. First published in 1944. Unusually the book was its original form.
13	* ''Savage Pellucidar''. Collects four Pellucidar short stories. Three from 1941 and 1942, and one previously unpublished story. The collection was first published in 1962.
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15	Several {{pastiche}} novels followed.
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17	A loose film adaptation of ''At the Earth's Core'' was made in 1976 by Creator/AmicusProductions, which was riffed in the season 11 finale of ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''. Pellucidar also appeared in the pilot for ''Series/TarzanTheEpicAdventures,'' which was based partly on ''Tarzan at the Earth's Core.''
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19	For the [=MST3000=] episode, go [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S11E14AttheEarthsCore here]].
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22	!!Tropes present in this work:
23	* TheAdventureContinues: The last line of the last novel has [[spoiler:Abner planning to build a submarine.]]
24	* AllAnimalsAreDogs: With a Hyaenodon, no less. Innes even ''calls'' it a dog!
25	** To be fair, David isn't a paleontologist, and just looking at the thing, [[http://www.ljplus.ru/img3/c/r/crazy_zoologist/hyaenodon_pic.jpg it's an easy mistake to make.]]
26	* AndroclesLion: On more than one occasion, the protagonist of the moment aids a wild animal who later pops up to help him in return.
27	* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Aside from the central premise, there's also the fact that some of the stories played with the notion of time as highly variable in a situation where there's no day-night sequence to measure it by. David Innes was once accidentally separated from his comrade and went through several ''weeks'' worth of adventures. When they were reunited, he discovered that since his friend hadn't needed to exert himself to anywhere near the extent David did, for him ''less than an hour had passed''. Needless to say, in reality time would not function differently for the Pellucidans anymore than it does for someone locked in a windowless room with no clock or light source. One might as well think that destroying all rulers and meter sticks would change anyone's height.
28	* BarbarousBarbaryBandits: The Korsars are descendants of a fleet of Barbary corsairs who fell into a portal to HollowEarth, they've kept up their old traditions since then.
29	* BeneathTheEarth: The series takes place in a cavernous world five hundred miles below the surface of the Earth.
30	* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The Mahars aren't evil; they simply lack any concept of sound, and so they don't understand the other creatures they treat as slaves are intelligent, communicating beings in their own right.
31	* CannotSpitItOut: See below under LoveAtFirstSight.
32	* CanonWelding: The fourth book, ''Tarzan at the Earth's Core,'' quite clearly defines the Tarzan and Pellucidar novels as part of the same continuity, with the usual heroes teaming up with Tarzan and his allies for a {{Crossover}}.
33	* {{Cliffhanger}}: ''Tanar of Pellucidar'' ends with some of the surface-world protagonists vowing to mount an expedition to rescue Innes from a Korsar dungeon, which how Tarzan gets involved for one installment.
34	* ClusterFBomb: Thanks to the time period Burroughs couldn't actually write it, but he still manages to make very clear that Perry's reaction to his drill refusing to turn at the start of the adventure would make a sailor blush.
35	* ContrivedCoincidence: As is often the case in Burroughs' novels, if the heroes ever get separated, they always manage to reunite in the nick of time amid the endless monster-infested wilderness of Pellucidar.
36	* CultureClash: The stone-age inhabitants of the hollow earth often have trouble adjusting to the use of Abner's various inventions. Also, Innes and Dian's relationship gets off to a very bad start due to his not understanding her people's rituals.
37	* DamselInDistress: The heroine of every story in the series usually manages to get kidnapped or whisked away by ''somebody''. That said, the heroes tend to [[DistressedDude get into trouble]] quite a bit as well.
38	* DayInTheLimelight: ''Back to the Stone Age'' details the adventures of Wilhelm von Horst after he gets separated from the rescue expedition in ''Tarzan at the Earth's Core.''
39	* DeadpanSnarker: David Innes.
40	* DidNotGetTheGirl: Film-only. Dian decides there's NoPlaceForMeThere on the surface, and David leaves her behind.
41	* DirectLineToTheAuthor: In the first novel, Burroughs claims to have had the story of David Innes' adventure in Pellucidar direct from Innes, having met him during a safari in the Sahara desert some time afterward. Each of the sequels mentions that they've stayed in touch and Innes has been keeping him informed of subsequent events.
42	* DirtyCoward: Hooja the Sly One never misses an opportunity save his own skin and stab Innes in the metaphorical back. Skruf in ''Back to the Stone Age'' is if anything even more craven and treacherous.
43	* DrillTank: The "iron mole".
44	* DuelToTheDeath: David Innes versus Jubal the Ugly One in ''At The Earth's Core.''
45	* DumbDinos: Most of the dinosaurs come off this way, with the exception of the Mahars, who are sapient pterosaurs.
46	* EndlessDaytime: As Pellucidar is a HollowWorld that has a sun at the centre, it is always noon no matter where you are. (Except in the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Land of Awful Shadow.]])
47	* FrazettaMan: Sagoths, Ape Men, Beast Men...
48	* GadgeteerGenius: Abner Perry, inventor of the DrillTank that takes him and David Innes to Pellucidar.
49	* HiveMind: The Mahars compose one.
50	* HollowWorld: The Earth is hollow.
51	* IOweYouMyLife: David Innes saves Ja of the Mezops in ''At The Earth's Core''.
52	* LivingDinosaurs: Pellucidar is occupied all sorts of dinosaurs and other creatures long extinct on the surface.
53	* LostWorld: Pellucidar itself, an underground world populated by dinosaurs and other prehistoric beasts, including a variety of humans.
54	* LoveAtFirstSight: Innes and Dian, though in typical Burroughs fashion thanks to separations and misunderstandings they only admit it to each other at the very end of the first novel.
55	* MadeASlave: David Innes is enslaved (briefly) by the Sagoths, joining Dian the Beautiful and others who are already in a slave train in ''At The Earth's Core''.
56	* TheMagnificent:
57	** Dian the Beautiful.
58	** Dacor the Strong One, Ghak the Hairy One, Hooja the Sly One, Jubal the Ugly One... etc.
59	* MightyWhitey: The people from the surface who come to Pellucidar. Something of a variant, as there are other white people in Pellucidar; the surface dwellers are (generally) mighty because of their more technologically advanced culture.
60	** Except for Tarzan. The Jungle Lord needs no technology to show the cavemen who's boss.
61	* NubileSavage: Dian the Beautiful. All of her people, too, the Tribe of Amoz. Also their neighbors, the people of Sari.
62	* OutsideContextProblem: The Korsars display shades of this, popping up to wreak havoc after Innes and his followers manage to defeat the Mahars, who were, as far as anyone knew, the highest evolved species in Pellucidar. (Justified in that Pellucidar has a whole lot more land-mass than the surface in which to hide entire empires.) Conversely, Innes and Perry are an example of this as far as the Mahar are concerned.
63	* {{Pirate}}: The Korsars (corsairs) of Pellucidar.
64	* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: The Mahars, a race of [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot sentient psychic pterosaurs]], appear as the first major villainous race in the series.
65	* SpiritualSuccessor: It's long been speculated that this series was an indirect inspiration for ''Literature/AtTheMountainsOfMadness.''

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