COF recommends Science Fiction by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Explore top Science Fiction books by Edgar Rice Burroughs! Discover thrilling adventures, classic tales, and must-read recommendations from the master of pulp fiction.
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A Princess of Mars
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The first published book by the creator of Tarzan of the Apes that introduced the world to intergalactic Civil War soldier, John Carter Two years before Edgar Rice Burroughs became a worldwide celebrity with the publication of Tarzan of the Apes and its twenty-two sequels, which together have sold more than 30 million copies, he published the futuristic sci-fi romance, A Princess of Mars. A Princess of Mars tells the story of John Carter, a Civil War veteran who inexplicably finds himself held prisoner on the planet Mars by the Green Men of Thark. With Dejah Thoris, the princess of another clan on Mars, John Carter must fight for their freedom and save the entire planet from destruction as the life-sustaining Atmosphere Factory slowly grinds to a halt. A Princess of Mars is the first in Burroughs' eleven book Barsoon series, following the continued adventures of John Carter. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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The Complete Moon Trilogy
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Perhaps the most imaginative of the 'Planet' series - the entire 'Moon' adventures For 60 years all the nations of the Earth have been at war. Now peace has come, but, more momentously, contact has been made with Mars. Into these times steps Julian-a man aware of lives past and present-with a strange story to tell. Mars has launched a ship to Earth, but it is lost in space-now it is Earth's turn to make an attempt to reach Mars, and Julian is commander of the mission. Sabotage plunges the Earth craft into the moon where, hidden from Earth's view, civilizations thrive. There Julian becomes involved in a fierce struggle with the Kalkans. In the second adventure, another Julian must deal with the Kalkan invasion and occupation of Earth, as mankind is forced into serfdom and its technology destroyed. The American people of the third adventure are a nomadic horse nation, painted and feathered. Their chieftain is Julian-the Red Hawk-and he is planning the final defeat of the hated Kalkans after centuries of enmity and oppression. This is Edgar Rice Burroughs at his best, with all the thrills, spills, action and hairsbreadth escapes his fans expect. Here, for your enjoyment, are all the 'Moon' novels in a single volume.
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A Princess of Mars
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The first book in Edgar Rice Burroughs's Mars series.
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The Complete Land That Time Forgot
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Complete Land that Time Forgot: All Three Classic Adventures from the Prehistoric World that Lives Today-The Land that Time Forgot; The People that Time Forgot & Out of Time's Abyss Before Jurassic Park there was The Land that Time Forgot In 1916 the great World War is raging on land and on the world's oceans. On the high seas a ship falls victim to a marauding German U-boat. The vagaries of fate decree that soon the tables will be turned on the aggressors, and the survivors will take control. This story of war becomes something far more bizarre as the search for land and fresh water draws the polyglot crew into a subterranean channel which leads to an exotic, unknown world. When an enormous, amphibian reptile-of a type only known from distant prehistory-appears in living form and attacks, devouring a man in the process, the survivors realise that this is the start of a high adventure beyond anything they could have imagined. This Leonaur edition contains all three of Edgar Rice Burroughs' The Land that Time Forgot novels and is guaranteed to deliver all the thrills and spills that Burroughs' fans expect.
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The Lost Continent
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Lost Continent is one of the least-known of Burroughs' thrilling science-fiction tales. In the year 2137, civilization has been in decline for nearly two centuries, and war-torn Europe is but a distant memory to the inhabitants of the isolated United States. But an American adventurer rediscovers the Old World, which has become a strange and savage land.
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Carson of Venus Volume 2 - Carson of Venus and Escape on Venus
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
CARSON OF VENUS volume 2 Carson of Venus & Escape on Venus In Carson of Venus our intrepid hero and his beloved Duare flee from Havatoo but are soon attacked by a brutal female tribe; Carson is left for dead and Duare is enslaved. Carson's only mission now is to find and rescue Duare and make his escape with her to their new kingdom of Korva. Carson's adventures continue in Escape on Venus where typically strange people and places-and an even stranger menagerie of weird and wonderful creatures-impede, at every step, Carson's attempts to find true happiness with Duare. Leonaur's Carson of Venus 2 contains two more classic scientific romances written with all the magical pace and verve we have come to expect from this master storyteller.
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Carson of Venus Volume 1 - Pirates of Ve
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
CARSON OF VENUS - Volume 1 - Pirates of Venus & Lost on Venus When Carson Napier, the All American adventurer and scientist embarks in his rocket ship to Mars events go disastrously wrong. Soon he is careering into the sun, but bizarre fortune has him crashing into Venus instead. There - in the 'cloud covered realm' his adventures begin in earnest as he experiences strange and alien flora and fauna (which seems intent on eating him) and exotic people ruled by equally exotic scantily clad maidens! Action comes hot upon action in this classic of early science fiction. This book contains the first two Carson of Venus novels - with more to come.
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Pellucidar the Inner World Volume 1 A
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
PELLUCIDAR THE INNER WORLD - Volume 1 - At the Earth's Core & Pellucidar Wealthy David Innes and his scientist friend Abner Perry use Perry's invention the "iron mole" to bore 500 miles into the Earth's crust. In the great tradition of scientific romances, what they encounter inside our planet quickly turns human knowledge on its head. They discover savage tribes, strange animals and nascent civilizations and become involved in wars, retribution and empire-building-all while rescuing and falling in love with beautiful, scantily clad maidens. Pellucidar: the Inner World - classic science fiction from a more innocent time that will delight readers both old and new.
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John Carter of Mars
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
In the seventh adventure of Barsoom (or Mars, as we know it) Hadron of Hastor, native of Helium, and the warrior who is The Fighting Man of Mars, earns the enmity of Haj Osis, jed of Tjanath. Sentenced as a spy and condemned to suffer 'The Death', Hadron must prove that John Carter's warriors are not so easily destroyed. In Swords of Mars, the eighth adventure, we once again join John Carter himself. Disguised as a panthan (or mercenary), Carter sets out to end the curse of the Assassins of Zodanga-but he soon discovers that their threat is reaching out to the very heart of his own family. Edgar Rice Burroughs' Martian series continues to delight lovers of fantastic fi ction with heroic deeds, hairsbreadth escapes, duels and battles, all set in a strange and alien landscape. The complete John Carter of Mars adventures are published by Leonaur.
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At the Earth's Core
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
David Innes is a young man who has just inherited a large mining company. An eccentric inventor, Abner Perry, convinces Innes to underwrite a project to build a 'iron mole', claiming it will make them both wealthy. The mechanical beast works well, actually too well. On the maiden voyage, instead of digging for a few minutes and returning, they plunge straight through the earth's crust into the 'inner world' of Pellucidar. This world resembles earth but is a horizon-less, primeval tropical landscape where the sun neither sets nor rises, and is populated by 'Sagoth' gorilla men, wild human slaves, and the ruling hypnotic reptilian 'Mahors'.
