Edgar Rice Burroughs' Mars / Barsoom

19/04/2024

It's rare when I run across something new about Edgar Rice Burroughs' Mars series. But then I found this cover, which I rate as 'okay' at best. It's by George Barr, for the paperback of Richard Lupoff's "Barsoom," an in-depth examination of ERB's John Carter series.

17/04/2024

ENDING SOON! ONLY 2 DAYS LEFT! The Kickstarter campaign (tinyurl.com/victoryharben) ends on Thursday, April 18, at 6:59 PM EDT. More info here: https://www.edgarriceburroughs.com/ending-soon-victory-harben-the-complete-graphic-novel-adventures-kickstarter-campaign/

13/04/2024

The Kick-Starter described in this post has about one week left.
Don't miss this opportunity. See details in the attached.
Posted 2024-04-12.

31/03/2024

March to Other Worlds Day 28 Dark Tide of Mars by Chris L. Adams
As we close out the fourth week of the March to Other Worlds, I’d like to present one of the best books I read in the past year, Dark Tides of Mars by Chris L. Adams.

This book reads like a lost manuscript of Edgar Rice Burroughs that has surfaced seventy-three years after the great man passed. It embodies the flavor of ERB’s work from the narrative style, to the brilliant action scenes, to the tense little political intrigues and dialogues. It opens with the rulers of Helium having uncovered a threat to the existence of all life on Mars. The stores of radium which power all of their advanced technology are depleting and unless they find new sources to mine, Barsoomian civilization will grind to a halt. Yet, while there is life, there is hope, and Helium decides to send Dat Voga, a young scientist-warrior, as an ambassador to a distant city which historically had been a major producer of radium to work out an alliance. But as Dat Voga is about to learn, this city has problems of its own—problems that the emissaries from Helium cannot help but become involved in. Soon Dat Voga is fighting for his life, tiptoeing around a mad scientist, and—most importantly—visiting a place that not even John Carter has been—the ancient seas and civilizations of the red planet. And while the reader discovers wonder after wonder, the action never stops.

This is a remarkable book which I just couldn’t put down. Dat Voga is a hero ERB could have created, on an adventure that feels like a remarkably fresh product of the master-writer’s mind. Rumor has it that more books are coming and I can’t wait to read them.

https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Tides-Mars-Adventures-Burroughs-ebook/dp/B0CNP43QMX?ref_=ast_author_dp&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ElHHwoZQoPsKmv8ZWiS8PkGNxFr93IQsAbbpGef-9_zAQ1DOYQr0nHV7ZojixMjfliEtA_rkq_TIbm0RZb6j3Ico9rq8Sm0u0pQxGE8bCx3lXkOhCV07IydX-4O8D51wQplUkR8dhvoQ0xZ6a8UoTQ.aD5bvpWw5965JgssDaPCkw2b106c-llAdi_j43RHGlI&dib_tag=AUTHOR

30/03/2024

Gods of Mars artwork by Joe Jusko.
For the Edgar Rice Burroughs Authorized Library.
This also looks great on the desktop screen!
www.edgarriceburroughs.com.
Posted 2024-03-03.

17/03/2024

A hit on Barsoom and on Earth, Korak at the Earth's Core!
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A busy morning today at the Los Angeles Vintage Paperback Show at the Glendale Civic Auditorium in Glendale, California!
Picture taken 2024-03-17, provided by ERB, Inc.,
Posted 2024-03-17.

17/03/2024

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A busy morning today at the Los Angeles Vintage Paperback Show at the Glendale Civic Auditorium in Glendale, California!
Picture taken 2024-03-17, provided by ERB, Inc.,
Posted 2024-03-17.

If you're in Southern California this coming weekend, join us at the Los Angeles Vintage Paperback Collectors Show on Sunday, March 17, at 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM! The ERB, Inc., team will be at Tables 93-93A-93B with a full selection of Tarzan, John Carter of Mars, and ERB Universe books, t-shirts, and other merchandise. We will be debuting the paperback edition of KORAK AT THE EARTH'S CORE by Win Scott Eckert at the show! Admission is only $10. More details here: https://www.la-vintage-paperback-show.com/index.html

17/03/2024

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A busy morning today at the Los Angeles Vintage Paperback Show at the Glendale Civic Auditorium in Glendale, California!
Picture taken 2024-03-17, provided by ERB, Inc.,
Posted 2024-03-17.

12/03/2024

Preorder now—A PRINCESS OF MARS: SHADOW OF THE ASSASSINS by Ann Tonsor Zeddies! Details below!
Posted March 12, 2024.

Preorder now—A PRINCESS OF MARS: SHADOW OF THE ASSASSINS by Ann Tonsor Zeddies! Details here: https://www.edgarriceburroughs.com/preorder-nowa-princess-of-mars-shadow-of-the-assassinsby-ann-tonsor-zeddies/

Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., the company founded by the creator of Tarzan® and John Carter of Mars®, is excited to announce A Princess of Mars: Shadow of the Assassins, a brand-new tale of the Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe by noted science fiction author Ann Tonsor Zeddies, and the first novel ever to feature the incomparable Martian princess Dejah Thoris in the lead role.

Dejah Thoris, fairest daughter of Helium—and indeed, of all Barsoom—comes to life in the pages of A Princess of Mars: Shadow of the Assassins, as she sets off on the first adventure of her young life, plunging headlong into a murky den of treachery and deadly peril.

Preorders of A Princess of Mars: Shadow of the Assassins may now be placed directly from ERB, Inc. Softcover and hardcover editions, as well as a limited Collector’s Edition with a signed bookplate, will be available in a simultaneous release. The book features wonderful wraparound cover art by award-winning artist Douglas Klauba.

A Princess of Mars: Shadow of the Assassins is expected to ship to customers in early Summer 2024.

INTRIGUE IN THE COURT OF ZOR
Born to an ancient line of noble and courageous forebears, Dejah Thoris, young and headstrong princess of the mighty empire of Helium, longs for a life of excitement and purpose beyond the cloistered walls of her royal palace. When a foreign ambassador arrives with an invitation to visit his city-state in hopes of fostering diplomatic relations, the princess defies the protests of her father and jed, traveling to the shadowy metropolis of Zor as Helium’s emissary. But Dejah Thoris soon finds that her hosts are not like the gallant folk of Helium, and before she knows it, their nefarious machinations ensnare her in a tangled web of artifice, perfidy, and murder—and a treacherous plot that portends tragedy not only for her own family, but for the entire Heliumetic empire.

Bonus Novella: “John Carter of Mars®: Swords of the Mind” by Geary Gravel
John Carter is baffled when he encounters his son’s badly damaged flier racing through the Martian skies with no one on board. The mystery only deepens when he traces the lost ship to its last port of call and finds himself battling for his life in a city of illusions—where the peril is all too real!

28/02/2024

WARLORD OF MARS #28 Cover by Joe Jusko

21/02/2024

John Carter Warlord of Mars and Dejah Thoris. Watercolor and color pencil. The Art of Tom Fleming

17/02/2024

Posted 2024-02-17

DARK TIDES OF MARS: A Novel of Barsoom by Chris L Adams—now on Audible!

Get at Audible:

https://www.audible.com/pd/Dark-Tides-of-Mars-Audiobook/B0CTB82TG3

Get at Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Tides-Mars-Novel-Barsoom/dp/B0CT9C87HM/

For more than a century fans have been entranced by Edgar Rice Burroughs’ arid red planet of Barsoom, with its valiant city states and hordes of four-armed green Martians inhabiting the dead sea bottoms, all pitted against one another in a deadly fight for survival. But what was ancient Barsoom like in its prime, before the oceans evaporated and its proud peoples were forced to construct an atmosphere factory to keep themselves alive on a dying world? Find out the answer in Dark Tides of Mars: A Novel of Barsoom by Chris L Adams, the newest volume in the Wild Adventures of Edgar Rice Burroughs series!

Barsoom is dying, its atmosphere thinning with each passing year, the seas that once flourished upon its surface dried up eons ago. When warrior-scientist Dat Voga is asked to become Helium’s ambassador to distant cities that may provide a desperate chance at life for the people of Barsoom, he leaps at the opportunity. But even as this new hope dangles on a thread, a madman seeks to hasten the Red Planet’s doom—and Dat Voga is hurled headlong upon an odyssey across the chasm of Time itself!