Marilyn Monroe at 100: Her Surprising Links to Cool Stuff
Believe it or not, Marilyn Monroe possessed some unguessed connections to Edgar Rice Burroughs, H. Rider Haggard and Fritz Leiber.
Read More"The Omega Glory": A Parallel Almost Too Close
“The Omega Glory” remains one of the strangest Star Trek episodes from the Original Series. Believe it or not, there are strong ties between it and a book written by Edgar Rice Burroughs four decades earlier.
Read MoreBurroughs' Moon Trilogy -- Taking Back America!
“The Red Hawk” is the final book in Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Moon Trilogy. It is a blood n’ thunder tale of post-apocalyptic vengeance.
Read MoreBurroughs' Moon Trilogy -- Under the Kalkar Flag
The second book of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Moon Trilogy is The Moon Men. It predicted collectivist horrors like the Holodomor and Stalin’s gulags. It’s also a rousing tale of the American spirit and resistance against tyranny.
Read MoreEdgar Rice Burroughs' 'Moon Trilogy' -- One Hundred Years On
Written in the early 1920s, Edgar Rice Burroughs’ ‘Moon Trilogy’ is classic ‘Sword and Planet’ with some extra post-apocalyptic sauce.
Read MoreEdgar Rice Burroughs: A Sesquicentennial Tribute--Some of His Obscure, But Cool, Novels
During the first decade of his literary career, Edgar Rice Burroughs was a man on fire, creating not just Tarzan and John Carter, but also many novels now (unjustly) forgotten. Toward the end of his life, with zero effs to give, ERB wrote some very interesting tales that one wouldn’t expect. Let’s look at a few of them.
Read MoreEdgar Rice Burroughs: A Sesquicentennial Tribute--His Life
Edgar Rice Burroughs was born exactly one hundred and fifty years ago today. While being a scion of a moderately wealthy family, he lived the life of a working man until he became a wildly successful author. He wrote adventures for the working man. Because of that, he became an American icon and his legacy lives on over a century after his birth.
Read MoreKaluta and Edgar Rice Burroughs
Michael Wm. Kaluta has spent well over a half-century illustrating the timeless tales of Edgar Rice Burroughs. It is time to give him his due.
Read MoreLike a Thread Through Many Beads
Theosophy arose in the late 1800s and quickly spread throughout the Western world. Its doctrines and mythology fascinated everyone from political revolutionaries to pulp authors. Its influence is still felt today, after nearly one hundred and fifty years.
Read MoreEdgar Rice Burroughs: Still Immortal
Edgar Rice Burroughs died on this date seventy-five years ago. That’s a good, long time. Despite that, his books still sell and his influence still lives on in the Sci-Fi/Fantasy realms.
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