Moon Trilogy (Burroughs)

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The Moon Trilogy by Edgar Rice Burroughs is one of the Tarzan author's best-known science fiction novels . Burroughs describes in the novels The Moon Maid , The Moon Men, and The Red Hawk, the story of a space expedition in the 21st century that took place under the surface of the moon comes across the warlike and very aggressive race of the Kalkars.

The genesis of the moon trilogy begins at the turn of the year 1918/1919, when Burroughs wrote the story Under the Red Flag under the influence of the October Revolution in Russia . In it he expressed his deep dislike for Russian communism . In 1922 he took up the idea again and wrote the first of his lunar volumes, in which he describes the cruel attack of the Kalkars, a synonym for the Bolsheviks , who set up an inhuman communist regime. In 1923, the first story appeared in sequels in Argosy All-Story Weekly magazine. The first book edition appeared in 1926.

A German translation of the novels is not yet available.

bibliography

  • 1 The Moon Maid (5 parts in: Argosy All-Story Weekly, May 5, 1923  ff .; also: Conquest of the Moon , 1928)
  • 2 The Moon Men (4 parts in: Argosy All-Story Weekly, February 21, 1925  ff.)
  • 3 The Red Hawk (3 parts in: Argosy All-Story Weekly, September 5, 1925  ff.)
  • The Moon Men (1925)
  • The Moon Maid (collective edition from 1–3; 1926; also: The Moon Men , 1962)