''Tales of Three Planets'' is a posthumous collection of short stories by American writer
Edgar Rice Burroughs, with an introduction by
Richard A. Lupoff and illustrations by
Roy G. Krenkel. It was first published in hardcover in 1964 by
Canaveral Press
Canaveral Press was a New York–based publisher of fantasy, science fiction and related material, active from the early 1960s through the mid-1970s. Richard A. Lupoff was the editor for publishers Jack Biblo and Jack Tannen.
After many years o ...
, and has been reprinted once since.
The book collects four novelettes by Burroughs, one set on Earth, two set on the distant planet Poloda "beyond the farthest star," and one set on Venus. Two of its pieces, "
The Resurrection of Jimber-Jaw
"The Resurrection of Jimber-Jaw" is a 1937 short story by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, about an unfrozen 50,000-year-old caveman.
The story was originally printed in ''Argosy'' magazine, and later reprinted as one of three stories in the ...
" and "
Beyond the Farthest Star", had previously seen magazine publication; the former in ''
Argosy Weekly'' for February 20, 1937 and the latter in ''
Blue Book Magazine
''Blue Book'' was a popular 20th-century American magazine with a lengthy 70-year run under various titles from 1905 to 1975. Ashley, Mike, "Blue Book—The Slick in Pulp Clothing". ''Pulp Vault'' Magazine, No. 14. Barrington Hills, IL: Tattered P ...
'' for January 1942; the others were published for the first time in the collection.
Contents
*"Introduction" (
Richard A. Lupoff)
*"
The Resurrection of Jimber-Jaw
"The Resurrection of Jimber-Jaw" is a 1937 short story by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, about an unfrozen 50,000-year-old caveman.
The story was originally printed in ''Argosy'' magazine, and later reprinted as one of three stories in the ...
" (1937)
*"
Beyond the Farthest Star" (1942)
*"
Tangor Returns" (1964)
*"
The Wizard of Venus
''The Wizard of Venus'' is a science fiction novella by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, as well as the title of a collection in which it was later published together with an unrelated story. "The Wizard of Venus" is the final story in Burrou ...
" (1941)
External links
ERBzine C.H.A.S.E.R ENCYCLOPEDIA entry for ''Resurrection of Jimber-Jaw''
* ttp://www.erbzine.com/mag7/0752.html ERBzine C.H.A.S.E.R ENCYCLOPEDIA entry for ''Wizard of Venus''*
Fantastic Fiction entry
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