OTHER REALMS ~ OTHER TIMES
Tarzan's Africa, Barsoom,
Pellucidar, Amtor ~ four fabulous worlds did not provide enough room in
which Edgar Rice Burroughs' active imagination could roam. Beyond his popular
series, Burroughs wrote a host of novels and tales that will appeal to
adventure lovers, no matter what their taste.
So you've read the Pellucidar
books and still feel the need to battle dinosaurs? Then climb aboard a
World War I submarine and take the plunge into The Land That Time Forgot!
Considered one of Burroughs' finest and most imaginative stories, The Land
That Time Forgot (and its two sequels, The People That Time Forgot and
Out of Time's Abyss) takes the reader on a thrill-packed journey to the
lost continent of Caprona deep in the south seas. There, cave men live
cheek by jowl with dinosaurs, saber-tooth tigers and the mysterious Weiroo
~ a race of winged men who live in cities made from the skulls of their
victims!
The next classic Burroughs
science fiction trilogy consists of The Moon Maid, The Moon Men and The
Red Hawk. Space explorers in the Twenty-First Century accidentally discover
that far beneath the moon's surface lies a savage and warlike world. To
make matters worse, when the Moon's inhabitants learn of the Earth ~ they
invade! The moon men conquer, civilization collapses, and humanity begins
a centuries-long struggle for independence.
If horror is more your thing
then check out The Monster Men. A scientist is obsessed with creating the
perfect human in his laboratory vats, but the road to perfection is paved
with twelve hideous mistakes! Looking for more lost cities to explore?
Then explore The Land of Hidden Men. Deep in the jungles of Cambodia a
remnant of the ancient Khmer peoples survive, who still wage war atop charging
elephants. A lost city of Japanese samurai can be found on a tiny Pacific
island, and this serves as the action-filled turf of Billy Byrne, a Chicago
street thug in The Mucker. How exactly did he wind up on the island? That's
half the fun of the book!
Science fiction combines
with social commentary in two of Burroughs' more offbeat tales. In The
Lost Continent Burroughs speculates what might have happened if the United
States had never entered World War I. America cuts off all contact with
war-torn Europe, and two hundred years later some intrepid explorers head
out to see what has happened to the lost continent of Europe. In Beyond
the Farthest Star Burroughs portrays a planet entering its second century
of total warfare. Burroughs wrote this story just before the United States
entered World War II, and he could see that modern technology applied to
warfare would leave no survivors.
The past was just as intriguing
to Burroughs as the future, and he wrote several worthwhile historical
tales. The Outlaw of Torn is set during England's War of the Roses and
describes the exploits of a Robin Hood-style outlaw. I Am a Barbarian is
the tale of the British slave of Caligula, one of Rome's most ruthless
and cruel emperors. And the western novels The War Chief and Apache Devil
are among Burroughs finest achievements, depicting in heroic but tragic
terms the struggle of Native Americans to hold on to their land and their
way of life.
Edgar Rice Burroughs penned
many more novels than this, but this should serve as a taste of the many
and varied products of his vivid imagination. There is more to Edgar Rice
Burroughs than just Tarzan!
Illlustrated Bibliography and eText Editions
Apache
Devil
The
Bandit of Hell's Bend
Beyond
the Farthest Star
Beyond
Thirty (aka The Lost Continent) ~ e-Text
The
Cave Girl ~ e-Text
The
Deputy Sheriff of Comanche County
The
Efficiency Expert ~ e-Text
The
Eternal Lover (aka The Eternal Savage) ~ e-Text
The
Girl From Farris's ~ e-Text
The
Girl From Hollywood
I
Am a Barbarian
Jungle
Girl (aka The Land of Hidden Men)
The
Lad and the Lion
The
Land That Time Forgot ~ e-Text
(including The People That
Time Forgot and Out of Time's Abyss)
The
Mad King ~ e-Text
The
Man-Eater
Marcia
of the Doorstep
Minidoka,
937th Earl of One Mile Series M
The
Monster Men ~ e-Text
The
Moon Maid
(including The Moon Men
and The Red Hawk)
The
Mucker ~ e-Text
The
Oakdale Affair ~ e-Text
The
Outlaw of Torn ~ e-Text
Pirate
Blood
The
Rider ~ e-Text
The
War Chief
