At the Earth's Core
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At the Earth's Core
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AI Voice Kokoro TTS
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Narrated by:
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AI Voice Kokoro TTS
This title uses virtual voice narration
Virtual voice is computer-generated narration for audiobooks.
Summary
At the Earth's Core is Edgar Rice Burroughs's 1914 novel of the hollow world, the first book of the Pellucidar series and one of the founding texts of the "hollow earth" strain in science fiction. It is told by David Innes, a young American who has paid for a secret digging machine and wants nothing more than to see it work.
The machine is the Prospector — an iron mole with a pointed nose, built by David's friend Abner Perry, an elderly inventor whose theories are sound and whose engineering is not. On its first trial the mole does not stop at the depth it was aimed at. It bores straight down through the crust and comes out, weeks later, under a sun that never sets, in a world called Pellucidar: a hollow interior surface where the horizon curves upward, where there is no north and no south, and where the animals of the outer world's past still walk — thags, tarags, thipdars, sadoks, dyryths, and the enormous lidi that carry men on their backs.
Captured by the Sagoths, the gorilla-men who serve the masters of this world, David and Perry are taken to Phutra, city of the Mahars: winged, egg-laying reptiles who rule Pellucidar by a hypnotic power, keep human beings as slaves, and use them as subjects in the experimental pits. Perry is set to work on the Mahars' books; David is sentenced to the pits, escapes, and kills four Mahars to steal the one volume that holds the secret of their race...
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