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Admiral Julian III knows his future: He will be reborn as his grandson in the 21st century and travel through space to make a startling discovery inside the moon. In the 22nd century, he will live again as Julian IX, refusing to submit to the victorious Moon Men. And in the 25th century, as Julian XX, the fierce Red Hawk, he will lead humanity's final battle against the alien invaders. Newly designed and typeset for easy reading by Boomer Books.

"The Barsoom", the first Earth-Mars vessel, was sabotaged on its maiden flight, and made an emergency landing on the Moon. The crew discovered a world hidden from the most powerful telescopes on Earth--a world of winged women, of conical cities, and of semi-human monsters. But what the Earthly visitors didn't know was that they were t face a danger greater than at any time since they'd left their own planet.

Admiral Julian III knows his future: He will be reborn as his grandson in the 21st century and travel through space to make a startling discovery inside the moon. In the 22nd century, he will live again as Julian IX, refusing to submit to the victorious Moon Men. And in the 25th century, as Julian XX, the fierce Red Hawk, he will lead humanity's final battle against the alien invaders.

The Moon Maid is a tale of adventure in space, of the secret of the moon -- of humanlike quadrupeds and stranger fantastic things, all wrapped around an idea like something Robert Heinlein would write. Strange and true: at the moment Burroughs was writing Russia had just fallen to the communists, and terrible things were happening to personal liberty in that land. And so he wrote about fighting for the things he believed in, and so he made no bones about his political leanings -- or his fear for the future, not just for America, but for the world at large. "Edgar Rice Burroughs . . . has probably changed more destinies than any other writer in American history." -- Ray Bradbury

The prologues to both parts, "The Moon Maid" and "The Moon Men"(part 3 of the series) constitute a future history, effectively Burroughs' vision of what the 20th Century held in store for humanity, which could be considered a kind of retroactive alternate history—a genre rare in Burroughs' writings and a bit reminiscent of such works as H.G. Wells' The Shape of Things to Come. Burroughs was writing in the early 1920s, several years after the end of the First World War in 1918; clearly, however, he did not regard the war as having truly ended but only changed in intensity—especially as it had been directly followed by the October Revolution in Russia and the intervention of the Western powers in an effort to crush that revolution, which the staunchly anti-Communist Burroughs supported.

In the late twentieth century, Admiral Julian 3rd can get no rest, for he knows his future. He will be reborn as his grandson in the next century to journey through space and make an ominous discovery inside the moon; he will live again in the dark years of the twenty-second century as Julian 9th, who refuses to bow down to the victorious Moon Men; and as Julian 20th, the fierce Red Hawk, he will lead humanity's final battle against the alien invaders in the twenty-fifth century. The Moon Maid is Edgar Rice Burroughs's stunning epic of a world conquered by alien invaders from the moon and of the hero Julian, who champions the earth's struggle for freedom, peace, and dignity.

The Moon Maid is a fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, belonging to the Lost World sub-genre. It was written in three parts, Part 1 was begun in June 1922 under the title The Moon Maid, Part 2 was begun in 1919 under the title Under the Red Flag, later retitled The Moon Men, Part 3 was titled The Red Hawk. As evident from its name, Under the Red Flag was originally set in contemporary Soviet Russia, with the Bolsheviks as villains; as this was not popular with the publishers, Burroughs transferred it to a science-fictional setting, with the evil Communist-like "Kalkars" taking over the Moon (in the first part) and then the Earth (in the second part, with the help of a renegade Earthman) and being finally overthrown in the third part. (Also the Thorists, villains of Pirates of Venus, are clearly modeled on the Russian Communists.)

The Moon Maid is a fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, belonging to the Lost World sub-genre. It was written in three parts, Part 1 was begun in June 1922 under the title The Moon Maid, Part 2 was begun in 1919 under the title Under the Red Flag, later retitled The Moon Men, Part 3 was titled The Red Hawk. As evident from its name, Under the Red Flag was originally set in contemporary Soviet Russia, with the Bolsheviks as villains; as this was not popular with the publishers, Burroughs transferred it to a science-fictional setting, with the evil Communist-like "Kalkars" taking over the Moon (in the first part) and then the Earth (in the second part, with the help of a renegade Earthman) and being finally overthrown in the third part. (Also the Thorists, villains of Pirates of Venus, are clearly modeled on the Russian Communists.)

The Moon Maid was without a doubt Edgar Rice Burroughs' best book. Earth has found piece after decades of war through the complete dominance of the Anglo-Saxon hegemony. America and Britain co-rule the now peaceful planet Earth. Mankind soon turns to exploration of the solar system. The first stop is, of course, the moon. The moon is inhabited by a malevolent race, the Kalkars. Within fifty years the Kalkars completely conquer Planet Earth and all of Mankind. But the Evil Kalkars are not disciplined enough to hold their empire together and Earth falls back to a feudal state. Mankind bides its time until it is strong enough to rise up and fight its oppressors.