Cosmic Epics
The Seminal Works of Edgar Rice Burroughs
Published on 5. September 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
500 pages
978-1-945462-53-5 (ISBN)
Description
A Princess of Mars, The Moon Maid, Pirates of Venus--three novels of unparalleled influence on the field of science fiction and fantasy from the fertile imagination of one of the world's most popular authors. With these timeless tales of wonder, Edgar Rice Burroughs singlehandedly invented and defined the sword and planet genre and transformed the face of popular culture, spawning legions of imitators and inspiring generations of writers, artists, filmmakers, and scientists.
Longtime fans of Burroughs' tales will delight at the opportunity to survey the length and breadth of the Master of Adventure's immortal creations in these ground-breaking first novels in his major science fiction series. For first-time readers, Cosmic Epics: The Seminal Works of Edgar Rice Burroughs serves as the perfect portal through which to enter the Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe and begin a lifetime of adventure!
THE FIRST UNIVERSE OF ITS KIND
A century before the term "crossover" became a buzzword in popular culture, Edgar Rice Burroughs created the first expansive, fully cohesive literary universe. Coexisting in this vast cosmos was a pantheon of immortal heroes and heroines--Tarzan of the Apes, Jane Clayton, John Carter, Dejah Thoris, Carson Napier, and David Innes being only the best known among them. In Burroughs' 80-plus novels, their epic adventures transported them to the strange and exotic worlds of Barsoom, Amtor, Pellucidar, Caspak, and Va-nah, as well as the lost civilizations of Earth and even realms beyond the farthest star. Now the Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe expands both new definitive editions of Burroughs' classic works and an adventure-filled series of canonical novels written by today's talented authors!
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
804 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-945462-53-5 (9781945462535)
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Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) was an American novelist best known for creating some of the most enduring adventure heroes of the twentieth century. He achieved immediate success with Tarzan of the Apes (1912), introducing the jungle-born Tarzan, and soon afterward launched the Barsoom series beginning with A Princess of Mars, establishing a model for planetary romance and interplanetary adventure.Burroughs' fiction is marked by sweeping imagination, exotic settings, and fast-moving narrative momentum. His tales of lost civilizations, distant worlds, and heroic survival captured the spirit of early pulp fiction and helped shape the development of modern adventure and science fiction genres.Over the course of his career, Burroughs wrote dozens of novels across multiple series, many of which were adapted into films, comics, and radio programs. His influence remains visible in popular culture, particularly in adventure fantasy and space opera traditions that continue to draw upon the archetypes he helped define.