Untamed Pellucidar
By Lee Strong
2018
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4.36
Average Rating
326
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Northern Russia 1924: The Red Army is eliminating those who resist the fledgling Soviet government. At the Battle of the Plutonian Plain, the White Russian forces, aided by wily American Edgar Rice Burroughs, do not fall, instead retreating into the dangers of Pellucidar. Comrade Trotsky, the Soviet leader, sends his troops to hunt them down and destroy them. Mikhail Kirillivitch Kirov, a young conscript caught up in this mad scheme, is fascinated by this new world. Formerly a student anthropologist, he finds Pellucidar's Stone Age landscape and inhabitants a revelation—until he's grabbed by a mammoth Ska I and flown back to its aerie to feed its giant offspring. Thus begins Kirov's astounding adventure in the Northern environs of Pellucidar, rife with incredible Paleolithic animal life, including Skals, Trals and Dyals, tremendous birds with sharp talons and fierce beaks; Ryths, the huge Stone Age cave bears whose claws can tear a man apart; and the vicious Jaloks, hyaenodons whose wild packs slaughter their prey mercilessly. These and other fantastic beasts stalk Kirov as he navigates the complex world of Pellucidar's most dangerous Man. To survive, Kirov must escape slavery from the Beautiful Ala and her mighty Black Bird riders, foster a civil war, impress the natives with his "inventions;' conquer the terrifying Pulka Horde, and become a warlord of several tribes as they flee the Soviet invaders. It's a tale in the grand tradition of Edgar Rice Burroughs' epic adventures at the Earth's Core.
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