I just read "Tarzan of the Apes"

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

Great link, Rich! Thanks! Now I can also read <i>The Moon Maid</i> which for some reason has not been transcribed to Project Gutenberg yet.

Glad it's of use to you. They are a great group of people working there, and it's always nice to see that people appreciate what they are doing. Look around the site, there is some excellent stuff there.

 

[ragboy]

Great link, Rich! Thanks! Now I can also read <i>The Moon Maid</i> which for some reason has not been transcribed to Project Gutenberg yet.

Moon Maid and tons of other ERB (and Howard!) stuff is here:

http://arthursclassicnovels.com/arthurs/burroughs/mnmaid10.html
http://arthursclassicnovels.com/arthurs/burroughs.html

Howard

Root

 

[Desdichado]

Moon Maid and tons of other ERB (and Howard!) stuff is here:

Cool, and that has Beyond Thirty under it's other title of The Lost Continent. That's another one I've always wanted to read, but never had.

 

[CarlZog]

I became a Tarzan junkie at a very early age. I don't even remember what originally drew me to it, but I'd read 'em all by the time I was 12. The phenomenon worried my mother a bit, accompanied as it was by the need to climb to the very tops of all the biggest trees I could find.

Tarzan lead to John Carter and to Carson of Venus and then to ERB's other novels. He was easy to find on the bookshelves in the '70s, and I had it all. One of my biggest regrets is selling all my paperbacks in the mid-90s during a move. ( I figured, you can always get another paperback....arrgghh!)

I remember the cartoon, but didn't watch it much. I did watch Ron Ely's live-action show in the early '70s, and, yes, it was incrdibly cheesy.

My favorite artistic depictions of Tarzan are Joe Kubert's comics for DC. He did a large-format verson of the Return of Tarzan that hewed very closely to the book, and was incredibly powerful. Thankfully, I still have that.

By the way, Dark Horse Comics is collecting ALL Kubert's Tarzan work in a new series of hardcovers. The first volume comes out in a couple weeks:

http://www.darkhorse.com/profile/profile.php?sku=10-922

I strongly recommend it.

Carl

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

By the way, Dark Horse Comics is collecting ALL Kubert's Tarzan work in a new series of hardcovers. The first volume comes out in a couple weeks:

http://www.darkhorse.com/profile/profile.php?sku=10-922

Didn't know that was coming out, I'll have to pick it up. Thanks!

 

[barsoomcore]

(opens thread door, notes incredibly comfy atmosphere, settles in with a heart-felt sigh)

This is where I live. This is my home.

By the way (and this is oddly related) I just watched Tim Burton's early short Frankenweenie (on the Nightmare Before Christmas DVD) and it opens with a sequence ostensibly filmed by the young Victor Frankenstein featuring oven-mitt dinosaur puppets, mismatched action figures and a dog in a delightful dinosuar costume that had me laughing so hard that even after my wife paused the disc, sat watching me chortle helplessly, got up, left the room, poured a glass of water, came back, offered it to me, realised I was incapable of drinking, left again, got another pillow, came back, put the pillow behind me to help, sat down again -- and I was still in the grip of giggles unending.

Holy crap it was funny. I mean it was STUPID funny.

Hi, everyone! Mmmmm, ERB talk.

Does anyone remember the one about the twelve planets all orbiting the same star in the same orbit, with a torus of air circling around with them, so you could hop in your flying machine and just fly to the next planet around? I'm sure that was an ERB book.

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

Tiny Terrors -- Pint-Size Fun from EN Publishing
THINK OF THE CHILDREN! Animated toys band together to protect the innocence of their young owners from the hungry extra-dimensional terrors of the Boogeyman and his fearful minions

You wrote this?

You. Are. The. MAN!

 

[Desdichado]

Does anyone remember the one about the twelve planets all orbiting the same star in the same orbit, with a torus of air circling around with them, so you could hop in your flying machine and just fly to the next planet around? I'm sure that was an ERB book.

Yes, it is. It's "Beyond the Farthest Star" and "Tangor Returns", two novellas that are usually collected these days in a single book called Beyond the Farthest Star. Coincidentally, I just re-read that myself about two weeks ago. Sadly, that story arc remains unfinished due to ERB's death in 1950, but it was--for a planetary romance adventure story--a strikingly chilling preview of the cold war from an ERB who was significantly disabused of many of his romantic notions about war from his time as a septagenarian war correspondent during WWII.

That's one of the few ERB novels that's more fascinating because of the view into his life and head it allows than for the actual meat and potatoes of the story and setting itself.

And hey! How'ya been? Haven't seen much of you lately; you're blog's been quiet for over a month, and last time I tried to look at your website it was down. I was starting to get worried!

 

[barsoomcore]

You wrote this?

Nope. I edited and published it. Mr. Lee Hammock wrote it.

You. Are. The. MAN!

One of them, anyway.

All kidding aside, I'm really glad you liked Tiny Terrors. Lee worked super-hard on it, and came through with an awesome product. Really great stuff.

 

[barsoomcore]

Yes, it is. It's "Beyond the Farthest Star" and "Tangor Returns", two novellas that are usually collected these days in a single book called Beyond the Farthest Star.

Hey, thanks! I'll be looking for a copy myself.

How'ya been? Haven't seen much of you lately; you're blog's been quiet for over a month, and last time I tried to look at your website it was down. I was starting to get worried!

Man, it's been crazy days for me. My job went super-nova-crazy in about August, I ended up on a madcap business trip to Costa Rica (hoo boy) and then my lung sort of collapsed and my project manager quit and my pal who maintains my website moved and I had to publish Tiny Terrors and Barsoom might be wrapping up for good and for all this very weekend.

Sigh. I'm tired. How's with you?