When we last saw our intrepid heroes Bowen Tyler and Lys La Rue had married and sailed away aboard the rescue ship Toreador while Tom Billings, who had come to Caspak to find Tyler, had to remain behind to be with Ajor the Caspakian native girl that he fell in love with.
Tag: Edgar Rice Burroughs
The People That Time Forgot: Book vs Movie
Nestled inside the world’s largest volcanic crater is the land of Caspak. Its jungles teaming with countless varieties of prehistoric life, and it is in this terror-fuelled land that adventurer Tom Billings must look to find his lost friend, Bowen Tyler. Edgar Rice Burroughs returns us to this mysterious world where evolution has been turned…
The Land That Time Forgot: Book vs Movie
Dinosaurs’ still roaming the earth today is a fantasy element to be found in stories dating from as far back as 1912s The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the upcoming Jurassic World and our love of those magnificent beasts will certainly keep this genre alive, do it is no surprise that the…
Beyond the Farthest Star: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review
If you had to describe a Burroughs hero in one word that word would be “adaptable” as whether they are dropped into the middle of a danger filled jungle or flung to the far reaches of space they quickly adapt to their surroundings and quickly end up on top.
The Girl from Hollywood: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review
When one thinks of author Edgar Rice Burroughs images of dense jungles and far off worlds come to mind but as I’ve shown in these reviews those certainly were not the only arrows in his quiver. Though in the case of his 1922 serialized story The Girl from Hollywood he really steps out of his…