Savage Pellucidar
dust-jacket illustration for first edition of Savage Pellucidar
Author	Edgar Rice Burroughs
Cover artist	J. Allen St. John
Language	English
Series	Pellucidar
Genre	Fantasy
Publisher	Canaveral Press
Publication date	1963
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback)
Pages	274
Preceded by	Land of Terror
Followed by	Mahars of Pellucidar

Savage Pellucidar is a 1963 fantasy story collection by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the seventh and final book in his series about the fictional "hollow earth" land of Pellucidar. It was published twelve years after Burroughs's death.

Like a number of other posthumously published books by Burroughs, this book is not a novel but a collection of short stories. The first three stories, The Return to Pellucidar, Men of the Bronze Age and Tiger Girl, were published in the magazine Amazing Stories in February, March, and April 1942.^[1]^[2]^[3] The fourth story, Savage Pellucidar, was published for the first time in November 1963^[4] after being discovered in a safe by Burroughs' son Hulbert in the early 1960s.^{[citation needed]}

Stories

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"The Return to Pellucidar"
"Men of the Bronze Age"
"Tiger Girl"
"Savage Pellucidar"

Plot

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In "The Return to Pellucidar", David Innes goes for a war and becomes a POW again, while Abner Perry makes a balloon which escapes with Dian the Beautiful in it.
In "Men of the Bronze Age", Dian meets the people who have advanced to a Bronze Age cultural level and is taken to be a goddess.
In "Tiger Girl", David Innes goes after Dian in another balloon and plays the role of a god.
In "Savage Pellucidar", two separate search parties look for the lost ones with neither knowing that the other has already found the one they are seeking.

Copyright

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The copyright for this story was renewed in the United States on 9 December 1991 by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. (renewal reference number: RE0000570901).^[5] The copyright should therefore expire in the United States on 1 January 2059. The copyright for this story has expired in Australia, and thus now resides in the public domain there. The text is available via Project Gutenberg Australia.

References

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^ "Publication Listing for Amazing Stories, February 1942". ISFDB.
^ "Publication Listing for Amazing Stories, March 1942". ISFDB.
^ "Publication Listing for Amazing Stories, April 1942". ISFDB.
^ "Publication Listing for Amazing Stories, November 1963". ISFDB.
^ "Copyright Office Catalog". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2012-11-29.

External links

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Preceded byLand of Terror Pellucidar series Savage Pellucidar Succeeded byMahars of Pellucidar

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Tarzan novels	Tarzan of the Apes (1912) The Return of Tarzan (1913) The Beasts of Tarzan (1914) The Son of Tarzan (1915) Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar (1916) Tarzan the Terrible (1921) Tarzan and the Golden Lion (1922/23) Tarzan and the Ant Men (1924) Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle (1927/28) Tarzan and the Lost Empire (1928/29) Tarzan at the Earth's Core (1929/30) Tarzan the Invincible (1930/31) Tarzan Triumphant (1931/32) Tarzan and the City of Gold (1932) Tarzan and the Lion Man (1933/34) Tarzan and the Leopard Men (1932/33) Tarzan's Quest (1935/36) Tarzan and the Forbidden City (1938) Tarzan and the Foreign Legion (1947) Tarzan and the Madman (1964) Tarzan: The Lost Adventure (1995)
Tarzan collections	Jungle Tales of Tarzan (1919) Tarzan the Untamed (1920) Tarzan the Magnificent (1939) Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins (1963) Tarzan and the Castaways (1965)
Tarzan short stories	Tarzan's First Love (1916) The Capture of Tarzan (1916) The Fight for the Balu (1916) The God of Tarzan (1916) Tarzan and the Black Boy (1917) The Witch-Doctor Seeks Vengeance (1917) The End of Bukawai (1917) The Lion (1917) The Nightmare (1917) The Battle for Teeka (1917) A Jungle Joke (1917) Tarzan Rescues the Moon (1917) Tarzan the Untamed (1919) Tarzan and the Valley of Luna (1920) The Tarzan Twins (1927) Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins with Jad-Bal-Ja the Golden Lion (1936) Tarzan and the Magic Men (1936) Tarzan and the Elephant Men (1937/38) Tarzan and the Champion (1940) Tarzan and the Jungle Murders (1940) Tarzan and the Castaways (1941)
Other jungle adventures	The Man-Eater (1915) The Cave Girl (1925) The Eternal Lover (1925) Jungle Girl (1932) The Lad and the Lion (1938)
Martian series	A Princess of Mars (1917) The Gods of Mars (1918) The Warlord of Mars (1919) Thuvia, Maid of Mars (1920) The Chessmen of Mars (1922) The Master Mind of Mars (1928) A Fighting Man of Mars (1931) Swords of Mars (1936) Synthetic Men of Mars (1940) Llana of Gathol (1948) John Carter of Mars (1964)
Pellucidar series	At the Earth's Core (1914) Pellucidar (1915) Tanar of Pellucidar (1929) Tarzan at the Earth's Core (1929) Back to the Stone Age (1937) Land of Terror (1944) Savage Pellucidar (1963)
Venus series	Pirates of Venus (1934) Lost on Venus (1935) Carson of Venus (1939) Escape on Venus (1946) The Wizard of Venus (1964)
Caspak series	The Land That Time Forgot (1918) The People That Time Forgot (1918) Out of Time's Abyss (1918)
Other speculative fiction	Beyond Thirty (1915) The Moon Maid (1926) The Monster Men (1929) "The Resurrection of Jimber-Jaw" (1937) Beyond the Farthest Star (1941) Tales of Three Planets (1964)
Westerns	The Bandit of Hell's Bend (1926) The War Chief (1927) Apache Devil (1933) The Deputy Sheriff of Comanche County (1940)
Historical novels	The Outlaw of Torn (1914/1927) I Am a Barbarian (1967)
Ruritanian romances	The Rider (1918) The Mad King (1926)
Contemporary novels	The Mucker (1914/16) The Girl from Farris's (1916) The Oakdale Affair (1918) The Efficiency Expert (1921) The Girl from Hollywood (1923) Pirate Blood (1970) Marcia of the Doorstep (1999)
Other works	The Oakdale Affair and The Rider (1937) Beyond Thirty and The Man-Eater (1957) Minidoka: 937th Earl of One Mile Series M (1998) You Lucky Girl! (1999) Forgotten Tales of Love and Murder (2001) Brother Men (2005)
Related	Florence Gilbert (second wife) John Coleman Burroughs (son) Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. Tarzana, Los Angeles Tarzan, Texas