They understand us no better than we understand the lower animals of our own world. Why, I have come across here very learned discussions of the question as to whether gilaks, that is men, have any means of communication. One writer claims that we do not even…
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Mining heir David Innes and the elderly inventor Abner Perry test a mechanical drill that bores five hundred miles down and breaks through into Pellucidar, a hidden world inside the hollow Earth lit by a sun that never sets. There they find Stone Age humans ruled by the Mahars, a race of intelligent flying reptiles, and David sets out to survive, find his friend and change the balance of power.
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In the first place please bear in mind that I do not expect you to believe this story. Nor could you wonder had you witnessed a recent experience of mine when, in the armor of blissful and stupendous ignorance, I gaily narrated the gist of it to a Fellow of…
As a matter of fact, David, I am rapidly coming to the conviction that there is no such thing as time—surely there can be no time here within Pellucidar, where there are no means for measuring or recording time. Why, the Mahars themselves take no account of…
Abner Perry: Yes, David… I know precisely where we are. We have made a magnificent discovery, my boy! We have proved that the earth is hollow. We have passed entirely through its crust to the inner world. David Innes: Perry, you are mad! Abner Perry: Not at…
As I looked I began to appreciate the reason for the strangeness of the landscape that had haunted me from the first with an illusive suggestion of the bizarre and unnatural—THERE WAS NO HORIZON! As far as the eye could reach out the sea continued and upon…
David Innes: Murder to kill a reptilian monster? Abner Perry: Here they are not monsters, David… Here they are the dominant race—we are the ‘monsters’—the lower orders. In Pellucidar evolution has progressed along different lines than upon the outer earth.