Reviews for The Moon Maid

The average rating for The Moon Maid based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-10-04 00:00:00 Robert Bettiol In reading this for the first time in over four decades, I found that I didn't remember The Moon Maid as clearly as the other Burroughs fantasies I've been returning to. However, when I encountered the name Orthis I immediately knew this was the villain. The first time through, Burroughs made me hate that guy so thoroughly that the emotion is still there on tap. In terms of predicting the course of the 20th century, or even the course of space exploration, from his 1923 vantage point, Burroughs misses by a wide margin. However, I think he hits a bulls-eye in discerning a weakness in humanity, as recounted in this history of lunar society: ... there developed a small coterie that commenced to find fault with everyone who had achieved greater learning or greater power than they. Finally they organized themselves into a secret society called The Thinkers, but known more accurately to the rest of Va-nah as those who thought that they thought. It is a long story, for it covers a great period of time, but the result was that, slowly at first, and later rapidly, The Thinkers, who did more talking than thinking, filled the people with dissatisfaction, until at last they arose and took over the government and commerce of the entire world. ... The arts and sciences languished and died with commerce and government, and Va-nah fell back into barbarism. ... As I've noted in other Burroughs reviews, this isn't great literature. I wish it could have been burnished further, because more could be done with this material. Still, I'm enjoying all these books, and not only for nostalgia's sake.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-10-26 00:00:00 Geoffrey Tricarico I like ERB's Moon stories ( they make up a trilogy ), although they are certainly not as well-known as his Tarzan or John Carter series. In The Moon Maid, Julian is the commander of a spaceship that blasts off for Mars, or Barsoom, after contact is made with the famous Virginian John Carter on the Red Planet. Unfortunately, the craft goes astray and the Earthmen make a landing, not on the moon, but inside it. In the lunar interior, they discover weird creatures and an alien civilization, and, of course, the Moon Maid. I loved Burroughs' stories as a kid and still love to return to those strange and wonderful worlds that the Chicago-born author created! I just wish we could have found a moon maiden inside the Moon, although, I guess it's better-for her!-that we didn't.