Edgar Rice Burroughs: Stories

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1 At the Earth's Core

David Innes, a mining heir, finances the experimental "iron mole", an excavating vehicle designed by his elderly inventor friend Abner Perry. In a test run, they discover the vehicle cannot be turned, and it burrows 500 miles into the Earth's crust, emerging into the unknown interior world of Pellucidar
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Travel, Science Fiction, Alternate Universe, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 2889 | Votes: 51 | Score: 7.46
Size: 261KB | 49,655 words | Posted: Concluded:

2 Beyond Thirty

In the 22nd century, left adrift at sea, Navy Lieutenant Jefferson Turck makes his way to a savage empire where he is taken as slave. Will he survive and go back home?
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Slavery, Science Fiction, Post Apocalyptic, Futuristic, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 5514 | Votes: 138 | Score: 7.88
Size: 203KB | 37,923 words | Posted: Concluded:

3 The Chessmen of Mars

A Barsoom Story (5)
Tara meets Prince Gahan of Gathol, and is initially unimpressed, viewing him as something of a popinjay. Later she takes her flier into a storm and loses control of the craft, and the storm carries her to an unfamiliar region of Barsoom. After landing and fleeing from a pack of ferocious Banths (Martian lions), she is captured by the horrific Kaldanes, who resemble large heads with small, crab-like legs.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Aliens, Space, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 2899 | Votes: 55 | Score: 8.79
Size: 472KB | 87,918 words | Posted: Concluded:

4 A Fighting Man of Mars

A Barsoom Story (7)
The tale of Tan Hadron of Hastor, a lowly, poor padwar (a low-ranking officer) who is in love with the beautiful, haughty Sanoma Tora, daughter of Tor Hatan, a minor but rich noble. As he is only a padwar, Sanoma spurns him. Then Sanoma Tora is kidnapped...
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Travel, Science Fiction, Aliens, Space, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 2404 | Votes: 51 | Score: 9.12
Size: 458KB | 86,807 words | Posted: Concluded:

5 The Gods of Mars

A Barsoom Story (2)
At the end of the first book, A Princess of Mars, John Carter is unwillingly transported back to Earth. The Gods of Mars begins with his arrival back on Barsoom (Mars) after a ten-year separation from his wife Dejah Thoris, his unborn child, and the Red Martian people of the nation of Helium, whom he has adopted as his own. Unfortunately, Carter materializes in the one place on Barsoom from which nobody is allowed to depart: the Valley Dor, which is the Barsoomian afterlife.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Travel, Science Fiction, Aliens, Space, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 5081 | Votes: 193 | Score: 8.82
Size: 438KB | 82,460 words | Posted: Concluded:

6 Llana of Gathol

A Barsoom Story (10)
A collection of stories that revolve around John Carter's granddaughter Llana of Gathol
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Tags: Travel, Science Fiction, Aliens, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1781 | Votes: 40 | Score: 8.83
Size: 424KB | 81,742 words | Posted: Concluded:

7 The Master Mind of Mars

A Barsoom Story (6)
On Mars, Paxton is taken in by elderly mad scientist Ras Thavas, the "Master Mind" of the title, who educates him in the ways of Barsoom and bestows on him the Martian name Vad Varo. Ras has perfected techniques of transplanting brains, which he uses to provide rich elderly Martians with youthful new bodies for a profit. Distrustful of his fellow Martians, he trains Paxton as his assistant to perform the same operation on him.
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Tags: Science Fiction, Aliens, Space, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 2180 | Votes: 44 | Score: 9.07
Size: 296KB | 55,616 words | Posted: Concluded:

8 The Mucker

Billy Byrne is a thug with almost no morals. He escapes to San-Fransisco where he becomes a pirate of sorts. How will he be affected after he helps kidnap Barbara?
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Action/Adventure
Tags: Violence, Addiction, Bounty Hunters, Pirates, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 2596 | Votes: 44 | Score: 8.24
Size: 660KB | 122,396 words | Posted:

9 A Princess of Mars

A Barsoom Story (1)
John Carter, a Confederate veteran of the American Civil War, goes prospecting in Arizona immediately after the war's end. Having struck a rich vein of gold, he runs afoul of the Apaches. While attempting to evade pursuit by hiding in a sacred cave, he is mysteriously transported to Mars, called "Barsoom" by its inhabitants. Carter finds that he has great strength and superhuman agility in this new environment as a result of its lesser gravity.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Romance, Violence, Science Fiction, Aliens, Space, Alternate Universe, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 10782 | Votes: 313 | Score: 9.17
Size: 359KB | 67,020 words | Posted: Concluded:

10 The Son of Tarzan

Alexis Paulvitch lures Tarzan's son Jack away from London and captures him, only to have Jack escape into the jungle that Tarzan once called home. With the help of an ape named Akut, Jack soon finds his place among the great apes, as his father did before him. But after rescuing the beautiful young woman named Meriem, the disaffected young man and the mistreated young woman must learn to live and love together in the dangerous jungle.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Action/Adventure
Tags: Novel-Classic
Downloads: 887 | Votes: 13 | Score: 8.59
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