At the Earth's Core

In a hair-raising adventure story that takes place hundreds of miles beneath the earth's surface, two explorers come upon the savage, primordial realm of Pellucidar.

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875–1950) is the legendary author of dozens of novels, including The Land That Time Forgot, also available in a Bison Frontiers of Imagination edition. Gregory A. Benford is a celebrated science fiction writer and a professor of physics at the University of California, Irvine. His most recent novel is Cosm. Phillip R. Burger is associate editor of The Burroughs Bulletin.

Introduction

vii

Map

xi

Prolog

1

(4)

Toward the Eternal Fires

5

(19)

A Strange World

24

(20)

A Change of Masters

44

(16)

Dian, the Beautiful

60

(20)

Slaves

80

(17)

The Beginning of Horror

97

(13)

Freedom

110

(12)

The Mahar Temple

122

(26)

The Face of Death

148

(14)

Phutra Again

162

(24)

Four Dead Mahars

186

(12)

Pursuit

198

(9)

The Sly One

207

(12)

The Garden of Eden

219

(38)

Back to Earth

257

(22)

Afterword

279

(12)

Glossary

291

(4)

Review of the First Edition

295

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