Master Of Adventure

by Lupoff, Richard A.

• ISBN13: 9780803280304
• ISBN10: 0803280300
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-05-01
• Publisher: Bison Books

Summary

So, just how was Tarzan created? Eager to know the inside story about the legendary John Carter and the amazing cities and peoples of Barsoom? Perhaps your taste is more suited to David Innes and the fantastic lost world at the Earth's core? Or maybe wrong-way Napier and the bizarre civilizations of cloud-enshrouded Venus are more to your liking? These pages contain all that you will ever want to know about the wondrous worlds and unforgettable characters penned by the master storyteller Edgar Rice BurroughsRichard A. Lupoff, the respected critic and writer who helped spark a Burroughs revival in the 1960s, reveals fascinating details about the stories written by the creator of Tarzan. Featured here are outlines of all of Burroughs's major novels, with descriptions of how they were each written and their respective sources of inspiration. This Bison Books edition includes a new foreword by fantasy writer Michael Moorcock, a new introduction by the author, a final chapter by Phillip R. Burger, as well as corrected text and an updated bibliographyRichard A. Lupoff is a critic and an author of speculative fiction. Michael Moorcock is the author of the Elric saga and other works. Phillip R. Burger is a freelance writer, a consultant to Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., and a contributor to the Bison Frontiers of Imagination series

Author Biography

Richard A. Lupoff is a critic and an author of speculative fiction. Michael Moorcock is the author of the Elric saga and other works. Phillip R. Burger is a freelance writer, a consultant to Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., and a contributor to the Bison Frontiers of Imagination series.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xi
Michael Moorcock
Introduction to the Bison Books Edition	xv
Preface	xxiii
Henry Hardy Heins
Introduction	xxxvii
Who Was Edgar Rice Burroughs	1	(4)
The Beginning of a Career	5	(10)
A Phoenician on Mars	15	(12)
To the Earth's Core---And Elsewhere	27	(20)
Barsoom Resumed	47	(5)
The Return to Pellucidar	52	(12)
Wieroos and Kalkars	64	(17)
The Good Pot-Boilers	81	(13)
Barsoom Concluded	94	(7)
Wrong-Way Carson	101	(10)
The Last Hero	111	(9)
The Backs of Old Letterheads	120	(17)
Tarzan Returns	137	(6)
And Returns and Returns	143	(7)
Ancestors of Tarzan	150	(13)
Tarzan's Greatest Adventures	163	(13)
Last Tales of Tarzan	176	(8)
Descendants of Tarzan	184	(18)
A Basic Burroughs Library	202	(12)
The Surprise In the Safe	214	(10)
Forty More Years of Adventure	224	(39)
Appendix 1: A Checklist of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Books	263	(4)
Appendix 2: List of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Fanzines	267	(2)
Acknowledgments	269	(2)
Bibliography	271	(10)
Index	281