The Wizard of Venus was the last entry in the Venus series written by Edgar Rice Burroughs and only saw publication after being discovered in the company safe fourteen years after the author’s death.
Tag: science fiction
Battlestar Galactica: The Young Lords – Review
We’ve already seen a couple of Space Western planets – ripping off Shane and The Magnificent Seven – so for the episode The Young Lords it’s nice to see Glen A. Larson and Donald Bellisario giving us a Space Medieval Fantasy planet for a change.
Escape on Venus: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Review
This installment was published in Fantastic Adventures between 1941 and 1942 just as our world was readying itself for a global war, and elements of this certainly slip into Burroughs’ writings.
Moon Zero Two (1969) – Review
Moon Zero Two represents Hammer Films one and only foray into futuristic storytelling and it’s easily one of their weirdest entries. Directed by Roy Ward Baker, a man who helmed such classics as A Night to Remember and The Quatermass and the Pit, this sci-fi western tackles space exploration in the far-flung future of the…
Carson of Venus: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review
Serialized in Argosy Magazine in 1938, Carson of Venus is a not too subtle attack on Nazi Germany. Though the book has all the romance and adventure one expects in a book by Edgar Rice Burroughs it also includes some of his more scathing political commentaries. In such books as The Moon Men, and even this…