Science Fiction is certainly no rarity for Burroughs but his short novel Beyond Thirty is speculative fiction which is not his usual bailiwick. Written in 1915 and first published in All Around Magazine this story does not take place on Mar or Venus nor at the depths of the Earth’s core but over two hundred…
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The Lad and the Lion: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review
The Lad and the Lion is an interesting book as it not only tells the adventures stories of a young man with a lion but a parallel story about a small European country struggling with revolution, but strangely neither story has much impact on the other. Written in 1914 and first appearing as a three…
The Many Faces of The Incredible Hulk
In 1962 Marvel’s creative giants Stan Lee and Jack Kirby brought the world The Incredible Hulk a story owing much to Lee’s love of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and as Ben Grimm’s orange monstrous form in Lee and Kirby’s Fantastic Four comic was so…
The Cave Girl: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review
Men of great deeds and action who, with noble purposes at heart, let none stand in their way as their mighty physiques carve a path to victory; this best describes your standard Edgar Rice Burroughs protagonist and is what really sets The Cave Girl apart from most of Burroughs’s books as the hero of this…
The Rider: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review
The Rider is one of the shortest of Edgar Rice Burroughs works but it’s also one of the most entertaining. Written in 1915 and published as a serial for All-Story Weekly as H.R.H the Rider this story is a madcap adventure tale of mistaken and assumed identities with the fate of two countries hanging in…