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Edgar Rice Burroughs

Lifespan
1875 – 1950
Nationality
American
Active
1912 – 1934
Works held
38

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875–1950) was a failed businessman who, in his late thirties, discovered he could write pulp adventure better than almost anyone alive. A Princess of Mars (1912) launched the Barsoom series and effectively founded planetary romance, sword-and-ray-gun adventure on vividly imagined alien worlds, while Tarzan made him one of the best-selling authors on Earth. Generations of science-fiction writers, from Bradbury to Carl Sagan, traced their first love of the genre to his Mars.

The works

  1. 1934
    Cover of Pirates of Venus Pirates of Venus
  2. 1933
    Cover of Lost on Venus Lost on Venus
  3. 1931
    Cover of A fighting man of Mars A fighting man of Mars
  4. 1929
    Cover of Tanar of Pellucidar Tanar of Pellucidar Cover of Tarzan and the lost empire Tarzan and the lost empire Cover of Tarzan at the Earth's core Tarzan at the Earth's core Cover of The Monster Men The Monster Men Cover of The illustrated Tarzan book no. 1 The illustrated Tarzan book no. 1
  5. 1927
    Cover of The master mind of Mars The master mind of Mars
  6. 1925
    Cover of The cave girl The cave girl Cover of The eternal savage The eternal savage
  7. 1924
    Cover of Tarzan and the Ant Men Tarzan and the Ant Men
  8. 1923
    Cover of The Moon Maid The Moon Maid Cover of The Moon Maid The Moon Maid
  9. 1922
    Cover of The Chessmen of Mars The Chessmen of Mars
  10. 1921
    Cover of Tarzan the Terrible Tarzan the Terrible
  11. 1919
    Cover of Jungle Tales of Tarzan Jungle Tales of Tarzan
  12. 1918
    Cover of Marsin jumalat: Seikkailuromaani Marsin jumalat: Seikkailuromaani Cover of Out of Time's Abyss Out of Time's Abyss Cover of The Land That Time Forgot The Land That Time Forgot Cover of The People That Time Forgot The People That Time Forgot
  13. 1916
    Cover of The Lost Continent The Lost Continent Cover of Thuvia, Maid of Mars Thuvia, Maid of Mars Cover of Thuvia, Marsin neito Thuvia, Marsin neito
  14. 1915
    Cover of Pellucidar Pellucidar
  15. 1914
    Cover of At the Earth's Core At the Earth's Core Cover of At the Earth's Core At the Earth's Core Cover of Ikuinen rakastaja Ikuinen rakastaja Cover of The Beasts of Tarzan The Beasts of Tarzan Cover of The warlord of Mars The warlord of Mars Cover of Ĉe la koro de la tero Ĉe la koro de la tero
  16. 1913
    Cover of Marsin ritarit Marsin ritarit Cover of Marsin sotavaltias Marsin sotavaltias Cover of The Gods of Mars The Gods of Mars Cover of The Gods of Mars The Gods of Mars
  17. 1912
    Cover of A Princess of Mars A Princess of Mars A A Princess of Mars Cover of Marsin prinsessa Marsin prinsessa

Wrote across

1910s1920s1930s

Recurring themes

AdventureLost WorldSpace OperaColonizationPost-ApocalypticMilitary SF

Kindred authors shared themes

Leigh BrackettNelson S. BondRaymond Z. GallunRobert Moore WilliamsStephen MarloweAlfred CoppelBasil WellsBryce Walton

Contemporaries writing in the same era

VariousRobert E. HowardL. Frank BaumH. P. LovecraftEdmond HamiltonVictor AppletonRay CummingsRuth Plumly ThompsonLord DunsanyH. G. Wells

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