Edgar Rice Burroughs
The pulp visionary who flung an Earthman across space to Mars and never let the adventure slow down.
Edgar Rice Burroughs is one of the great engines of twentieth-century adventure fiction, the creator of John Carter of Mars and the Barsoom saga that launched the entire sword-and-planet tradition. His hero is hurled to a dying Mars of warring races, exotic beasts, and a red-skinned princess — a template that shaped science fiction and cinema for a century.
Burroughs wrote for momentum and spectacle, piling cliffhanger on cliffhanger with unembarrassed gusto. The science is loose, but the imaginative reach and sheer narrative drive are extraordinary, and his influence runs straight through to modern blockbusters. Expect breathless action, vividly strange worlds, and the foundational thrill of planetary romance. He is essential reading for anyone tracing where the genre's pulse first quickened.
- For fans of foundational planetary romance
- Breathless, spectacle-driven adventure
- Enormous influence on later SF and film
