S4E119 -Chapter One Hundred and Nineteen: Red Moonrise!

What Mad Universe?!?

We've talked before about how plainly world events have informed the subtext (and sometimes the regular-text) of classic SF, and The Moon Maid, a late-career offering from Edgar Rice Burroughs, proves that in spades. The politics that engulfed the world in the mid-1920s are on full display here in this seemingly escapist pulp fantasy, in which thinly-disguised Moon Communists invade America. Choose your side, citizen!

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Theme song by Jack Feerick

Additional music: "The Planets: Mars" by Gustav Holst

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