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 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 MoreMichael 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 MoreTheosophy 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 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.
Read More“A Rose for Ecclesiastes” was a triumphant re-telling of the great pulp story. Mars as the home of a mysterious alien civilisation, a secret history of triumph and collapse, played out in a past age while Earthmen fought battles with swords and spears.
Read MoreThe Land That Time Forgot uses science to build the world of Caspak, but the foundations are pure adventure. Edgar Rice Burroughs combines all sorts of wild concepts into a ripping yarn worthy of any adventure fan's library. A century later, it is still by no means ‘forgotten’.
Read MoreWhen Edgar Rice Burroughs incorporated himself and his creations in 1923, he blazed a trail for the thousands of other authors who have followed his example in the hundred years since.
Read MoreJohn Taliaferro has given us the living, breathing Edgar Rice Burroughs and shown us what a wonderful writer he was. He shows ERB as a courageous and admirable man, a patriot and a family man. Tarzan Forever is also a good book for anyone who wants to understand the pulps and how they produced the finest American stories.
Read MoreToday marks the thirtieth anniversary of when Fritz Leiber departed this mortal coil. At the venerable age of eighty-one, he left behind him a truly great legacy in the fields of fantasy, science fiction and horror, not to mention the realms of literary criticism and role-playing games. When he died, Leiber had already influenced the likes of Ramsey Campbell, Michael Moorcock, Harlan Ellison, Terry Pratchett, Glen Cook, Tim Powers, Neil Gaiman and Michael Chabon, demonstrating the sheer breadth of what he had wrought.
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