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Vintage SF Month: A Fighting Man of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Posted on January 13, 2022 by H.P.

Goodreads used to give you nifty little pie charts divvying up your books read in a year by genre or however you categorized your books in shelving them.  Google (as Google does) discontinued the tool they used to generate the … Continue reading →

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Vintage SF Month: Return to Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Posted on January 7, 2021 by H.P.

My journey through Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Barsoom novels (and my Vintage SF Month 2021) continues with Return to Mars.  Return to Mars collects Barsoom books 4-6: Thuvia, Maid of Mars; The Chessmen of Mars; and The Mastermind of Mars.  The … Continue reading →

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Throwback SF Thursday: Under the Moons of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Posted on July 9, 2020 by H.P.

It has been a spell since a Throwback SF Thursday post!  A while back I won a complete set of hardcover Barsoom/John Carter omnibuses through a giveaway hosted by the inestimable Bookstooge.  I have been using the Barsoom books as … Continue reading →

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Throwback SF Thursday: At the Earth’s Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Posted on April 27, 2017 by H.P.

PC Bushi beat me to the punch, and Jeffro wrote a full retrospective back in 2014, so I’m not going to do a full review of At the Earth’s Core. First, some fun facts from an Edgar Rice Burroughs panel … Continue reading →

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Throwback SF Thursday: Pirates of Venus by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Posted on August 18, 2016 by H.P.

One of the high-level changes that separates modern speculative fiction from the old stuff is the balkanization of science fiction among hard science fiction, social science fiction, and adventure fiction.  You know that wasn’t always so, but the brain still … Continue reading →

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Throwback SF Thursday: Review of The Legend of Tarzan

Posted on July 21, 2016 by H.P.

To my knowledge, I had never watched a Tarzan movie.  Never read a Tarzan book.  Never read a Tarzan comic.  Never heard a Tarzan radio drama (or any radio drama, to be honest).  Never watched a Tarzan TV show.    Which … Continue reading →

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