One of those utterly amazing
science fiction novels that I read when I was 12. Written by
Edgar Rice Burroughs around 1914 (if I remember correctly),
At the Earth's Core is a wonderful
adventure tale about a
scientist and his
apprentice, who drill down to the Earth's core and discover that it's hollow, and there's an entire undiscovered
primitive world there.
Thanks to the wonder that is Everything2, and to the 50-year limitation on copyright after which works become public-domain, here is the complete text of Edgar Rice Burroughs' At the Earth's Core (courtesy of Project Gutenberg):
Contents:
- Prologue
- Chapter 1: Toward the Eternal Fires
- Chapter 2: A Strange World
- Chapter 3: A Change of Masters
- Chapter 4: Dian the Beautiful
- Chapter 5: Slaves
- Chapter 6: The Beginning of Horror
- Chapter 7: Freedom
- Chapter 8: The Mahar Temple
- Chapter 9: The Face of Death
- Chapter 10: Phutra Again
- Chapter 11: Four Dead Mahars
- Chapter 12: Pursuit
- Chapter 13: The Sly One
- Chapter 14: The Garden of Eden
- Chapter 15: Back to Earth
At the Earth's Core was followed by several sequels. Also included on Everything2 in its entirety is the first sequel, Pellucidar. Enjoy.