{"id":342,"date":"2024-03-04T16:55:55","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T22:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/?p=342"},"modified":"2024-03-04T16:55:56","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T22:55:56","slug":"reading-list-for-hollow-earth-in-mage-the-ascension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/2024\/03\/04\/reading-list-for-hollow-earth-in-mage-the-ascension\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading List for Hollow Earth in Mage the Ascension"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Hollow Earth started in the first Sons of Ether Tradition book.  That book was full of nods to early 20th century pulp fiction.  Besides a cool idea for a realm to add to Mage&#8217;s cosmology, it was an acknowledgement of the large number of pulp stories about fantastical worlds found underground.  Are you considering using the Hollow Earth in your Mage game?\u00a0 A little reading can help you make it interesting.\u00a0 The 3 top choices for inspiration are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><em>Journey to the Centre of the Earth<\/em> by Jules Verne<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Moon-Pool-Conquest-Argosy-Library\/dp\/161827306X\">The Moon Pool<\/a><\/em> &amp; <em>The Conquest of the Moon Pool<\/em> by Abraham Merritt<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hollow-Earth-Earths-Core-Pellucidar\/dp\/1435134397\">first 2 Pellucidar novels<\/a> by Edgar Rice Burroughs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Moon Pool<\/em> &amp; <em>The Conquest of the Moon Pool<\/em> are available in a paperback volume by Altus Press that has the original Virgil Finlay illustrations.  There were more Pellucidar novels after the first two but they weren&#8217;t as popular and I wouldn&#8217;t recommend them.  <em>The Hollow Earth<\/em> by Fall River Press collects the first two in one volume that is quite affordable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want to read further, take a look at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hollow-Earth-Tales-Hyatt-Verrill\/dp\/1708947337\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=36ZDQSHNAIPUZ&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.-6ZZ9ilhjKRWEI_4Rtn0nMOtW6IPES1z1mcZIDsdCqmt95cJLKju5-ONax-Zg5WlvcOWlbf5YdMVXDtLSGNou6_xrPeTn2R7Nj51IS7B1RTeNcO1AO0cPe2NixERwvi9iT4z-QnJlofBmMD5aNrw_dCSZau16RQnnSjyxinehkorjGwF1CZMY79gOIr_tn_CuuJJbWO6Vnto9tSsCKwOcYbMJv4ERvKgwX4ew_JLSJI.QKcAb3wEbIJ1V8B61sPJg-Ci4Xfy8ytWkmIyf1tkP_A&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=hollow+earth+tales&amp;qid=1709591627&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=hollow+earth+tale%2Cstripbooks%2C110&amp;sr=1-1\">Hollow Earth Tales<\/a>.  This 7 volume collection of stories from the early 20th century open the vaults of time to show us what we&#8217;ve been missing.  Doc Eon would approve!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hollow Earth started in the first Sons of Ether Tradition book. That book was full of nods to early 20th century pulp fiction. Besides a cool idea for a realm to add to Mage&#8217;s cosmology, it was an acknowledgement of the large number of pulp stories about fantastical worlds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,36,7,13],"tags":[48],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343,"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions\/343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}