Edgar Rice Burroughs Podcast #16: Tarzan: The Battle for Pellucidar, Part 1
Edgar Rice Burroughs Podcast #17: Tarzan: The Battle for Pellucidar, Part 2
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Monday, August 09, 2021
Thursday, October 22, 2020
Tarzan: Battle for Pellucidar - Now Shipping!
The first batch of orders for Tarzan: Battle for Pellucidar by Win Scott Eckert is on its way! The limited Collector’s Edition is selling fast, so place your orders now while we still have copies. We’ve gotten a LOT of preorders for the novel, so we’ll be shipping them out through next week. Get your own copy here!
Summary of details (with more extensive info behind the link above:
- Collector’s Edition hardcover
- Regular hardcover
- Softcover
- ebook (Kindle and Nook)
- Audible audio book
- Audio book on CD
- 5-star advance reviews on Goodreads
- Superb wraparound cover by Chris Peuler
- Map of Pellucidar by Mike Wolfer
- Novelette: Victory Harben: Clash on Caspak by Mike Wolfer
Wednesday, September 02, 2020
Tarzan: Battle for Pellucidar - now available for preorder!
Tarzan: Battle for Pellucidar, crossing over two of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ greatest creations, Tarzan and the Pellucidar/Inner World series (At the Earth’s Core, etc.), was announced for preorder yesterday (September 1, ERB’s birthday) and while it is a standalone adventure, it also advances a four-novel “super-arc” in the recently announced canonical Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe.
My novel is the second release, following Matt Betts’ Carson of Venus: The Edge of All Worlds, which was released last spring and is doing gangbusters.
Check out the beautiful cover art by Chris Peuler!
Here is the official announcement:
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT IN HONOR OF EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS’ BIRTHDAY!
Now available for preorder: TARZAN: BATTLE FOR PELLUCIDAR by Win Scott Eckert—the new novel in the ERB Universe’s Swords of Eternity super-arc—will be available in paperback, hardcover, and a limited hardcover Collector’s Edition (books expected to ship this Fall). Includes the bonus novelette “Victory Harben: Clash on Caspak” by Mike Wolfer.
Exclusive ERB Universe trading card offer only with preorder directly from ERB, Inc.!
Thursday, February 13, 2020
The Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe - Swords of Eternity super-arc launches!
The Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe (ERBU) is a series of all-new canonical tales expanding Edgar Rice Burroughs' worlds of wonder and adventure!
Several prior authorized "classic" novels have already been declared canonical in terms of the ERBU (Tarzan and the Valley of Gold by Fritz Leiber and Tarzan and the Dark Heart of Time by Philip José Farmer), and now the new Swords of Eternity super-arc—a series of canonical standalone novels and stories which also combine to tell a larger tale—is launching!
Swords of Eternity Super-Arc
A mysterious force hurls inventor Jason Gridley and his protégé Victory Harben across space and time, bringing them face to face with heroes and heroines of unparalleled courage and ability—Carson Napier, Tarzan, John Carter, and more. With the help of their intrepid allies, Jason and Victory will uncover a plot both insidious and unthinkable—one that threatens to tear apart the very fabric of the universe!
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The first issue of the comic book miniseries Carson of Venus: The Eye of Amtor—including part one of “Pellucidar: Dark of the Sun”—hit comic book stores on February 12, 2020! Order here!
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Carson of Venus: The Edge of All Worlds by Matt Betts—the first novel of the ERB Universe’s Swords of Eternity super-arc—is available for preorder in paperback, hardcover, and a limited hardcover Collector’s Edition (books ship in April). Exclusive ERB Universe trading card offer only with preorder directly from ERB, Inc.!
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Swords of Eternity Super-Arc:
- “Pellucidar: Dark of the Sun” written by Christopher Paul Carey - novelette (available in Carson of Venus: The Edge of all Worlds—AND the same story appears in comic format in the three-issue miniseries Carson of Venus: The Eye of Amtor)
- Carson of Venus: The Eye of Amtor written by Mike Wolfer and Matt Betts - comic miniseries from American Mythology (click to order)
- Carson of Venus: The Edge of All Worlds - novel written by Matt Betts (April 2020)
- Tarzan: Battle for Pellucidar - novel written by Win Scott Eckert (click to preorder now, forthcoming Fall 2020)
- John Carter of Mars: Gods of the Forgotten - novel written by Geary Gravel (forthcoming 2021)
- Victory Harben: Fires of Halos - novel written by Christopher Paul Carey (forthcoming 2021)
Monday, August 12, 2019
Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe - Philip José Farmer’s Tarzan and the Dark Heart of Time
My partners and I at Meteor House were so thrilled when Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. announced at the ERB panel at San Diego Comic-Con on July 19, 2019 that certain previously published authorized Burroughs novels by other writers—specifically Philip José Farmer’s Tarzan and the Dark Heart of Time and Fritz Leiber’s Tarzan and the Valley of Gold—are considered official canonical novels in terms of the Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe™ (ERBU), that we immediately asked ERB, Inc. if we could add the ERBU logo to our next printings of Tarzan and the Dark Heart of Time.
With an enthusiastic “yes” from ERB, Inc. in response, we quickly ordered a new run of hardcovers which we’ll have on hand at PulpFest 2019 / FarmerCon XIV this week—August 15 through 18—in Cranberry (Pittsburgh) PA.
Softcovers won’t have the new logo until we sell through our current stock, and ebooks will be updated with the new logo shortly after PulpFest. A new first hardcover edition of Leiber’s novel is also just out, published by ERB, Inc. and Christopher Paul Carey, Director of Publishing at ERB, Inc. will have copies on hand at PulpFest.
Tarzan Lives!
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Sunday, July 21, 2019
Tarzan: Battle for Pellucidar - Book 2 of the Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe Super-Arc!
The Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe was announced at the Burroughs panel at San Diego Comic-Con on July 19, 2019!
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 in an all-new series of canonical novels written by today’s talented authors!
San Diego Comic-Con 2019: Tarzan, John Carter,
and the Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe
Some people say that San Diego Comic-Con is the convention that Jack Kirby built. I’m sure that a lot of other creators had a hand in the source material that inspired this crazy pop culture event, but if we are being completely honest, this is the house, the con, and the community that Edgar Rice Burroughs inspired.
That’s right, a line can be drawn from almost every superhero, science-fiction or fantasy icon that is celebrated at this very circus right back to Burroughs’ pulp creations of John Carter of Mars and Tarzan of the Apes.
These days this pop culture history is mostly glossed over and rarely mentioned, but for many of us, Friday is Burroughs Day at Comic-Con, the day of ERB, Inc’s rollout of everything new coming down the pike in the Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe, as today’s panel revealed is the actual name of the brand going forward.
The Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe will feature upcoming novels based on Burroughs’ worlds and characters, but with cohesive new stories that will expand on the original tales and be a part of official canon.
The new books will be authored by talented storytellers and will be connected by what is being called “The Super-Arc.”
Book one will be written by Matt Betts and will be called Carson of Venus: The Edge of All Worlds.
The second book will be Tarzan: Battle for Pellucidar, written by Win Scott Eckert. Mister Eckert was present at the panel and promised his tale would include the Ape Man fighting WWII Nazis riding dinosaurs.
Book number three will be John Carter of Mars: Gods of the Forgotten, written by Geary Gravel.
Book four will introduce a new character, Victory Harben, in a tale called Victory Harben: Fires of Halos, written by Christopher Paul Carey, who is also spearheading the book series as ERB, Inc’s new Director of Publishing.
TARZAN: BATTLE FOR PELLUCIDAR
by Win Scott Eckert
The Lord of the Jungle returns to the Earth’s core on a mission to stop the Nazis from obtaining a powerful superweapon. But when the ape-man’s murderous adversaries partner with Pellucidar’s routed reptilian overlords, can Tarzan prevent the conquest and enslavement of all humanity in both the inner and outer worlds?
WIN SCOTT ECKERT is the legacy author of science-fiction Grand Master Philip José Farmer’s Patricia Wildman series, as well as the coauthor with Farmer of the upcoming Doc Caliban novel, The Monster on Hold. Eckert’s other professional credits include authorized tales of Zorro, the Phantom, Honey West, the Avenger, and the Green Hornet.
Additional Information
It was also announced that certain previously published authorized Burroughs novels by other writers—specifically Philip José Farmer’s Tarzan and the Dark Heart of Time and Fritz Leiber’s Tarzan and the Valley of Gold—while not a part of the new Super-Arc, are considered official canonical novels in terms of the Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe (ERBU). A new first hardcover edition of Leiber’s novel is soon forthcoming, published by ERB, Inc., while I was very pleased to take the editorial lead in bringing to fruition the first hardcover edition of Farmer’s novel for Meteor House in 2018 (also available in trade paperback and ebook):
hardcover/trade paperback direct from Meteor HouseKindleNook
*San Diego Comic-Con photos courtesy Ric Bretschneider
Monday, January 07, 2019
Everything Is Connected: The Wold Newton Cycle of Win Scott Eckert
While I would prefer that readers discover on their
own the deeply interconnected nature of my seemingly unrelated tales, I’ve come
to realize that this is not the wisest marketing strategy in terms of enticing new
readers to take a chance on my stories, so I’ve created an outline illustrating
how my tales are linked, both to each other and to the works of Philip José Farmer
(I’ve noted the latter to avoid confusion).
It should go without saying that
all are connected in varying degrees to Farmer’s Tarzan Alive: A Definitive Biography of Lord Greystoke and Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life, but
there you go, I’ve said it anyway.
Publication info is available on my site’s bibliography.
I’ve tried to keep this relatively spoiler free,
but in identifying the connective tissue, there’s no avoiding mild spoilers. The
vast majority of readers are not picking up on the links anyway, so really, what
do I have to lose by disclosing some high-level spoilers?
Each and every crossover is not listed. That’s what
my Crossovers, Volumes 1 & 2, and Sean Lee Levin’s Crossovers Expanded, Volumes 1 & 2, are for.
Following are recurring antagonists and the aliases
used in various stories (if a character is unlicensed, aliases or descriptive
hints are used):
· XauXaz / Wolf Larsen / Baron Ulf von Waldman / Baron von
Hessel / Doctor Karl Walden / Doctor Karl
Stipier
·
Doctor Natas / Doctor Shan Ming Fu (Doctor Fu
Manchu)
·
Lili Bugov, the Countess Idivzhopu / “The Countess”
/ Lilya Zarov
·
Madame Inga (Fah Lo Suee)
·
Dame Sinestre (Sumuru)
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2070–12,000 BCE–2140
Time’s Last Gift (Farmer)
Protagonist:
John Gribardsun
Other:
time travel
Approximately 10,000 BCE
The
Khokarsa/Ancient Opar cycle by Farmer and Christopher Paul Carey. I won’t recap
all the tales here, since Carey has already created a handy checklist.
1795
“Is
He in Hell?”
Protagonist:
The Scarlet Pimpernel (Sir Percy Blakeney)
Antagonist:
Leonox
Other:
Eridaneans; the Heart of Ahriman
“Nadine’s
Invitation”
Protagonists:
the first generation of the Wold Newton Family
Antagonist:
Countess Nadine Carody
“The
Wild Huntsman”
Protagonist:
John Gribardsun
Antagonist:
XauXaz
Other:
the first generation of the Wold Newton Family; the Eridaneans and Capelleans; distorters;
time travel; the Secrets of the Nine series
1798
“Marguerite’s
Tears”
Protagonists:
Doctor Siger Holmes and the first generation of the Wold Newton Family
Antagonist:
Countess Nadine Carody
1815
“Violet’s
Lament”
Protagonists:
Doctor Siger Holmes and Violet Blakeney
Antagonist:
Countess Nadine Carody
1820
“Zorro’s
Rival”
Protagonist:
Zorro (Don Diego de la Vega)
Antagonist:
El Halcón
(Violette Durand aka Violet Blakeney)
1872
The Other Log of Phileas Fogg (Farmer)
Protagonist:
Phileas Fogg
Antagonist:
Captain Nemo/Professor Moriarty
Other:
the Eridaneans and Capelleans; distorters
“Being
an Account of the Delay in Green River, Wyoming of Phileas Fogg, World
Traveler”
Protagonists:
Phileas Fogg and the Lone Ranger
Antagonist:
Doctor Shan Ming Fu
1893
The Sea Wolf (Jack London)
Antagonist: Wolf Larsen
1895
The Sea Wolf (Jack London)
Antagonist: Wolf Larsen
1895
“The
Problem of the Sore Bridge—Among Others” (Farmer)
Protagonists:
A. J. Raffles and Harry “Bunny” Manders
Antagonist:
alien shapeshifter (“a worm unknown to science”)
1899
“No
Ghosts Need Apply”
Protagonists:
The Phantom; Barker and Nash
Antagonist:
Colonel Sebastian Moran
Other:
John Gribardsun
1916
The Adventure of the Peerless Peer (Farmer)
Protagonists:
Sherlock Holmes and Doctor John Watson
Antagonist:
Von Bork
1917
“The
Adventure of the Fallen Stone”
Protagonists:
Sherlock Holmes and Doctor John Watson
Antagonists:
Von Bork and Baron Ulf von Waldman
1918
Escape from Loki: Doc Savage’s First
Adventure (Farmer)
Protagonist:
Clark Savage (James Clarke Wildman)
Antagonists:
Baron von Hessel and Lili Bugov, the Countess Idivzhopu
Other:
“a worm unknown to science”
Tarzan and the Dark Heart of Time
(Farmer)
Protagonist:
Tarzan
Antagonists:
Jelke Helmson and James D. Stonecraft
Other:
The Crystal Tree; time travel
1920–1921
Ironcastle (J.-H. Rosny and Farmer)
Protagonist:
Hareton Ironcastle
1929
“Iron
and Bronze” (with Christopher Paul Carey)
Protagonists:
Doc Ardan (Doctor James Clarke Wildman) and Hareton Ironcastle
Antagonists:
Harry Killer and Antinea
1937
1939
“Captain Midnight at Ultima Thule”
Protagonist: Captain Midnight
Antagonists: Sun Koh and Madame Inga
Antagonists: Sun Koh and Madame Inga
1939
Tarzan and the Castaways (Edgar Rice Burroughs)
Antagonist?: Captain Larsen
Antagonist?: Captain Larsen
1941
“Shadows
Over Kunlun”
Protagonist:
Lance Star
Antagonist: Doctor Natas
Other: Madame Inga
Antagonist: Doctor Natas
Other: Madame Inga
1944
“The
Glass Lady”
Protagonists:
Richard Benson (The Avenger) and the Domino Lady (Ellen Patrick)
Antagonists:
Werner Conrad, the Iron Skull, and the Iron Skull’s daughter, Lenni Blau-Montag
“Death
and the Countess”
Protagonist:
Richard Benson (The Avenger)
Antagonist:
The Countess
1945
“Happy
Death Men”
Protagonist:
The Avenger (Richard Benson) and the Domino Lady (Ellen Patrick)
Antagonists:
Doctor Karl Walden and the Countess (aka Lilya Zarov)
“According
to Plan of a One-Eyed Trickster”
Protagonist:
The Avenger (Richard Benson) and the Domino Lady (Ellen Patrick)
Antagonists:
Doctor Karl Walden and the Countess (aka Lilya Zarov)
Other:
alien shapeshifter/human hybrid (see “Sore Bridge”)
1946
“Toil
and Trouble”
Protagonist:
The Avenger (Richard Benson) and the Domino Lady (Ellen Patrick)
Antagonists:
The Iron Skull, Lenni Blau-Montag, and Doctor Karl Walden
“The
Eye of Oran”
Protagonists:
Doc Ardan (Doctor James Clarke Wildman), “Shrinking” Violet Holmes, and Adélaïde
Lupin
Antagonist:
Doctor Natas
“Les
Levres Rouges”
Protagonist:
Doc Ardan (Doctor James Clarke Wildman) and Adélaïde Lupin
Antagonist:
Madame Elisabeth (Countess Erzsébet Báthory)
1948
“Dame
Sinestre”
Protagonists:
The Green Ghost (George Chance) and the Domino Lady (Ellen Patrick)
Antagonists:
Leonox and Dame Sinestre
Other:
the Heart of Ahriman
1949
“The
Vanishing Devil”
Protagonist:
Doc Ardan (Doctor James Clarke Wildman)
Antagonist:
Doctor Natas
1964
“Fang
and Sting”
Protagonists:
The Green Hornet and Kato
Antagonists:
Doctor Shan Ming Fu and his granddaughter, Doctor Isabella Fang
1965
“The
Atomos Affair”
Protagonists:
Alexander Waverly, Napoleon Solo, and Illya Kuryakin (hinted, not named)
Antagonist:
Mme. Atomos
1967
A Girl and Her Cat (with Matthew Baugh)
Protagonists:
Honey West and T.H.E. Cat
Antagonists:
Shan Ming Fu, Isabella Fang, and Doctor Karl Stipier
Other:
Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin (hinted, not named); distorters
1973
“Progress”
Protagonists:
The Green Hornet and Kato
Antagonists:
Shan Ming Fu and Isabella Fang
1973
The Evil in Pemberley House (Farmer and
Eckert)
Protagonist:
Patricia Wildman
Antagonists: The
Dowager Duchess of Greystoke, Doctor Augustus Moran, other family members
Other: Doctor James
Clarke Wildman and Adélaïde Lupin Wildman; Violet Holmes; Helen Benson; Jelke
Helmson
1974
The Scarlet Jaguar
Protagonists: Pat
Wildman, Parker, and Helen Benson
Antagonist: The
Scarlet Jaguar
Other: Doc Wildman
and Adélaïde Wildman; Violet Holmes; Doctor von Hessel
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