Résumé
Résumé de La Fille de la Lune
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For readers who love early science fiction, fast adventure on strange worlds with a political edge, and love stories across worlds, and for fans of Burroughs.
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The Moon Maid is a science fiction novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the creator of Tarzan and of the Mars tales about John Carter. It first appeared in magazine form in the early 1920s and was gathered into one book in 1926. Burroughs wrote it for readers who loved his Mars stories and wanted a new world to explore, this time much closer to home.
The book is built in three parts that follow one family over many centuries. A line of men all named Julian carries the story from a daring voyage into space, through the fall of Earth to an enemy from the Moon, to a distant future when a new hero rises against the conquerors. You get adventure, a love story across two worlds, and a hard look at what happens when a free people grow soft. Let us begin where the story begins, with a ship that leaves Earth for another planet and never reaches it.
Dans ce résumé
- 1A ship leaves Earth and loses its wayFree
- 2The Moon hides a world inside it
- 3Julian meets the Moon Maid
- 4The enemy from the Moon reaches Earth
- 5A fallen people and a hero named Red Hawk
- 6What the story argues and how it is told
Point clé 1 sur 6
A ship leaves Earth and loses its way
The story opens in a future that Burroughs imagines as peaceful and advanced. Nations have joined in a strong alliance, and the arts of flight have reached out beyond the air. A crew is chosen to fly a great ship named Barsoom into space, and the hero of the first part is a man named Julian 5th, who is part of this daring plan.
The name Barsoom will be familiar to readers of Burroughs, because it is the name John Carter's people give to Mars. The choice shows how Burroughs ties his tales together and how he wants the voyage to feel like a true successor to those earlier adventures. The ship is meant for a long flight, and the crew understand the danger.
The voyage does not go as planned. Trouble overtakes the ship, and the crew find themselves far from the course they meant to follow. They must act at once with what they have, and Julian is among those who must make hard choices about their small band.
This early part sets the tone. Burroughs writes plainly and quickly, with a crew of capable men, a clear danger and a strange place ahead. He gives you little time to rest before the first great surprise about the Moon.
That’s 1 of 6 key points.
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