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JASON OF PELLUCIDAR
A story of the inner world in nine chapters
by Richard Senate

Pellucidar Art by Paul Privitera

Introduction Pellucidar, the inner world, has long fascinated me with its bold characters and primitive environment. Here time did stand still and one could encounter saber toothed tigers, and other long extinct creatures as well as savage men.

The accounts of David Innes and Abner Perry caught my imagination early and I began to speculate what would have happened if David has a son?  I named him Jason, and wrote an adventure featuring his exploits in Pellucidar.

Since I first read the stories of the inner world, I was curious about the lizard-like Mahars, and the ape-like Sagoths.  They vanish from the pages of Burroughs narrations after the first few books -- so I brought them back in my new story, not as the enemies of the past but as allies -- a nice sort of reversal. I liked the simple direct Sagoths, they could be given personalities and used a a counter to the youth and inexperience of Jason.

I believe the story I came up with is a romp though the Inner World that you will enjoy.

~ Richard L. Senate, Ventura, California.

Contents
Chapter One: REVOLT!
Chapter Two: THE CRY OF BATTLE
Chapter Three: WEENA
Chapter Four: AMONG THE MAHARS
Chapter Five: MAHARA
Chapter Six: THE CAVES OF THALI
Chapter Seven: THE BATTLE OF MAHARA
Chapter Eight: FANG'S TREACHERY
Chapter Nine: THE BLACK FINGER

Richard Senate in Tarzana  near the site believed to be  the last resting place of  Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Biography:  Richard L. Senate  Born in Los Angeles, his father was a painter at MGM Studios, he grew up in thousand Oaks, California, where worked at Jungleland, where many films and television shows were filmed. One of his fondest memories is meeting Johnny Weissmuller (then shooting a show called Ramar of the Jungle). His love of Edgar Rice Burroughs started when he was in the eighth grade when a friend gave him a pocket book edition of The Pirates of Venus.  "From then on I was hooked," he recalls.  He read everything he could find by Burroughs who replaced his earlier love of Jules Vern and H.G. Wells.  Burroughs inspired him to write, finishing his first novel at the age of 16.   To date he has published 22 works in both fiction and non-fiction.  The family moved to Ventura, California in 1963 and he attended Ventura High School and Ventura Community College, majoring in history. He went on to earn a BA degree in Cal State Long Beach.   He studied archaeology  at UCSB and attended the field school at Cal Poly.  He worked as the manager of the Albinger Archeological Museum, and became the historian for the City of Ventura for twenty-two years.  He is married, has three children and five grandchildren. He is best known for his work as a ghost hunter, starting in 1978 long before the subject was popular. He resides in Ventura, California still, is retired and enjoys teaching part-time and writing.

JASON OF PELLUCIDAR by Richard Senate

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