Official Edgar Rice Burroughs Tribute and Weekly Webzine Site Since 1996 ~ Over 10,000 Web Pages in Archive Presents Volume 5096 |
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Official Edgar Rice Burroughs Tribute and Weekly Webzine Site Since 1996 ~ Over 10,000 Web Pages in Archive Presents Volume 5096 |
Unfortunately these books are written by EDNA Rice Burroughs. They are gender-switch pastiches, with a female replacing the male hero – Tarzyn the Apewoman and Joan Carter of Mars. And their mates are men, of course – Jan Porter and Dejar Thoris, Prince of Helium.Other characters in the Mars, not Barsoom, books are similar to those in ERBis novels- Tara Tarkas; Thuvia, Boy of Mars; Cathoris; and Kanthoa Kan. And Joan Clayton is Tarzyn’s mother. The description doesn’t mention the father’s name.
All four titles are similar to those by Edgar Rice Burroughs. They “Tarzan of the Apes Reswung”; “A Princess of Mars Rethroned”; “The Gods of Mars Revoked” and “Warlord of Wars Embattled.”
I found the Tarzan pastiche while looking at the Barnes of Noble website, www.barnesandnoble.com for Tarzan items, particularly non-books such as games or toys.
All four titles are published by Jekkara Press through Smashwords and are ebooks or digital books. On its website, Smashwords says they can be read online using its online readers or they can be downloaded to other reading devices such as the iPhone, iPod Touch, Amazon Kindle, Sony Reader, Barnes and Noble Nook, or to other ereading devices. They also are listed as free.
Here are descriptions of each title and photos of the covers, which I think feature sexy women.
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by Edna Rice Burroughs A Joan Carter of Mars story. When Virginian Captain Joan Carter is strangely transported to the red planet, Mars, she must learn a new way of life, and a new way to love, with Dejar Thoris, Prince of Helium. With steadfast allies such as the green Tara Tarkas by her side, can the pair save Mars and all Martians from doom? A Gender Switch Adventure. |
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by Edna Rice Burroughs A Joan Carter of Mars story. Joan Carter is back on Mars, and Mars badly needs her. As does Dejar Thoris, who is missing. Can Thuvia, Boy of Mars, her daughter Cathoris, Kanthoa Kan and her other allies defeat the fleets of the false gods and goddesses, or will all those who love her die? A Gender Switch Adventure. |
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by Edna Rice Burroughs A Joan Carter of Mars story. Joan Carter of Mars has secrets to uncover in the Temple of the Sun – holding a revolving prison that can only be entered once a year - if she is to have any hope of rescuing three Princes of Mars, from the fantastic ancient Martian North. A Gender Switch Adventure. |
Since I don’t have a reader for Nook or any other eBooks, I can’t play them or tell about the quality.. but her “Princess of Mars” got 2 out of 5 stars on the goodreads.com web site and the other three only 1 of 5.So who is using the pseudonym of Edna Rice Burroughs? The Smashwords site just shows a photo of an Asian woman and says she lives in the United States and has been a Smashwords member since July 10, 2010. The photo may or may not really be the writer.
I looked at fsfnet.com, bookreporter and other websites but could not find any information about her. She also has written a James Bond pastiche titled, “You Only Live Twice.”
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Smashwords claims to be the world's largest distributor of indie ebooks to retailers, with more than 350,000 titles from more than over 100,000 authors. Mark Coker founded Smashwords in 2008 after he and his wife, Lesleyann,” who worked for “Soap Opera Weekly Magazine,” had difficulty over several years at getting their book, “Boob Tube,” about the daytime television soap opera industry, published. |
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By Nathan Long Nathan Long's devilishly entertaining homage to Edgar Rice Burroughs gets the updating right. "Jane Carver of Waar" features airships and romance and savage four-armed warriors, but in the John Carter role it has Jane Carver, a sword-swinging biker chick swashed in leather and buckled in a bronze bra. Burroughs' prose is vigorously updated, with flowers "the electric pink of a hooker's hot pants" and food "that tasted like the paste I wasn't supposed to eat in kindergarten." Long also includes more explicit sex and violence than Burroughs dared consider. Still and all, I think the old guy would have approved. |
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