Red Axe of Pellucidar

Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe

By: John Eric Holmes, Geary Gravel

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Chris West’s deadly prowess with his weapon of choice had earned him the name Red Axe in the Stone Age world of Pellucidar at the Earth’s core. Sentenced to die along with the woman he loved by the merciless Mahars, West had fought his way free of the lethal laboratories and ghastly arenas of their underground city. Now he must carve a path for his small band of fugitives through a primordial landscape teeming with monstrous beasts and brutish men bent on their destruction.

Also includes the bonus novella “Jason Gridley of Earth: Across the Moons of Mars—A Tale of the Swords of Eternity Super-Arc” by Geary Gravel!

THE FIRST UNIVERSE OF ITS KIND
A century before the term “crossover” became a buzzword in popular culture, Edgar Rice Burroughs created the first expansive, fully cohesive literary universe. Coexisting in this vast cosmos was a pantheon of immortal heroes and heroines—Tarzan of the Apes, Jane Clayton, John Carter, Dejah Thoris, Carson Napier, and David Innes being only the best known among them. In Burroughs’ 80-plus novels, their epic adventures transported them to the strange and exotic worlds of Barsoom, Amtor, Pellucidar, Caspak, and Va-nah, as well as the lost civilizations of Earth and even realms beyond the farthest star. Now the Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe expands in an all-new series of canonical novels written by today's talented authors!

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A fun and enjoyable listen

This is the "recently" released sequel to Mahars of Pellucidar, which came out in the 1970's. I honestly never thought I'd see a sequel to the book I read way back then in high school. It was every bit as entertaining as the first. Here Red Axe and his party are still trekking back to his mates village when they get waylaid by storms and a couple of tribes. Prehistoric creatures, both real and imagined along with those same tribes.

It is noted in the forward, quite rightly, that the characterization of the women is a more modern take and reflects the self reliance that the characters would have had, had they existed in reality. They are independent and just as dangerous as the men in most cases. The change helps give the story a more modern feel, without removing the pulp novel aspects of the original stories.

I wish that the author could have written more of these books before his passing a few years ago, but what he did leave behind will likely live forever alongside his inspiration, Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Bonus story alert: We also have Jason Gridley story from the Swords Across Eternity super arc of novels. This one fits in just before the last chapter, Victory Harben and The Fires Of Halos.