Edgar Rice Burroughs John Carter Reading Order

March 06, 2022 Post a Comment

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A number of Edgar Rice Burroughs' series intersect with one another, every bit well as with a few other books; so how do you know what order to read them in? Here's a guide to the intersecting series, forth with links to those books that are online (which is well-nigh of them, cheers to Commonwealth of australia'south more than liberal copyright laws). Order betwixt series doesn't matter until you get to the crossover novels (the ones whose plots all connect in some way with Tarzan at the Earth's Cadre); and later on the crossover novels the series go their separate ways over again:

Tarzan/Mars/Pellucidar/Venus crossover novels

		P3. Tanar of Pellucidar [crossover #1]
	M7. A Fighting Human of Mars [crossover #2]
T13/P4. Tarzan at the Earth's Cadre [crossover #iii]		P4/T13. Tarzan at the Globe's Core [crossover #3]
		P5. Dorsum to the Stone Age [crossover #4]
			V1. Pirates of Venus [crossover #v]
Tarzan series (continued)	Mars series (and related – continued)	Pellucidar serial (continued)	Venus serial (continued)
T14. Tarzan the Invincible T15. Tarzan Triumphant T16. Tarzan and the City of Gold T17. Tarzan and the Lion-Human T18. Tarzan and the Leopard Men T19. Tarzan's Quest T20. Tarzan the Magnificent T21. Tarzan and the Forbidden City T23. Tarzan and the Madman T24. Tarzan and the Castaways T22. Tarzan and the Strange Legion [despite the numbering, this is the right order] T25. Tarzan: The Lost Hazard [fragment by ERB, completed past Joe Lansdale]	M8. Swords of Mars M9. Constructed Men of Mars M10. Llana of Gathol M11a. John Carter and the Giant of Mars [by John Burroughs, ERB's son; not canonical] M11b. Skeleton Men of Jupiter Beyond the Farthest Star Moon series (takes identify in the future of the Mars series): L1. The Moon Maid L2. The Moon Men L3. The Crimson Hawk	P6. Land of Terror P7. Savage Pellucidar	V2. Lost on Venus V3. Carson of Venus V4. Escape on Venus V5. The Wizard of Venus

Burroughs also wrote 3 other series that don't intersect (either with the series higher up or with one another), besides as many standalone novels. And so here's a quick guide to those:

Some readers call up that the Caspak novels must be function of the Tarzan/Pellucidar universe because they feature dinosaurs surviving in the present day. Others recall The Outlaw of Torn must be part of the Tarzan universe because there's someone named Greystoke in it. These arguments seem less than decisive to me, especially the Greystoke ane (it is a real proper name, after all; and at the time that ERB chose the name "Greystoke" for Tarzan, he may well accept forgotten that he'd already used it for a minor graphic symbol in Outlaw); just your haadage may vary.

On the other hand, some would regard Across the Farthest Star as a standalone novel, and perhaps they are right; just as the ways of interplanetary travel is the aforementioned as in the Mars novels, and the means of interplanetary communication is almost the same as in the Venus novels, and as these are more than distinctive features than merely having dinosaurs survive (which had already been done by Verne and Conan Doyle) or having the same proper name show up, I'k inclined to care for Across the Farthest Star every bit belonging to ERB's Mars/Venus universe.

The sadly unfinished Skeleton Men of Jupiter and the non-ERB (and inaccurate, and dreadful) John Carter and the Giant of Mars are usually published together as John Carter of Mars (and attributed equally a whole to ERB).

Despite having "Tarzan" in their titles and leading into the events of Tarzan and the Lost Empire, the ii Tarzan Twins books (sometimes published together as Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins) are non traditionally considered office of the Tarzan sequence then are left out of the standard numbering, probably considering they were intended for a juvenile audition.

Information technology'south non immediately obvious to a newcomer that The Mad King is related to the Tarzan sequence, but The Eternal Lover (too never included as a Tarzan book, despite filling in a crucial chapter in Tarzan's biography) will make the connection clear.

It'south worth noting that once Tarzan gets back from the Earth'south core, his series starts to go downhill; ERB was clearly getting sick of writing about his most popular character, and inspiration was flagging.