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Yep, that's a good summary, along with no passage of time due to their 'sun' being the molten core of the earth always at the center of their 'sky'. Those and Tarzan were favorites of mine. They would make good adventure role plays, but ERB never took them as far as they could have gone due to the publishing restrictions of his day.

I have a book, Tarzan of the Apes, printed in 1914 by A.C. Mclurg & Co. Not bad condition considering it's age. I can't remember who gave it to me but I've had it since I was a preteen.

E.R.B. said:
That night a little son was born in the tiny cabin beside the primeval forest, while a leopard screamed before the door, and the deep notes of a lion's roar sounded from beyond the ridge.
E.R.B. said:
The last entry in his diary was made the morning following her death, and there he recites the sad details in a matter-of- fact way that adds to the pathos of it; for it breathes a tired apathy born of long sorrow and hopelessness, which even this cruel blow could scarcely awake to further suffering:

My little son is crying for nourishment--O Alice, Alice, what shall I do?

He certainly had a way with words. No one writes like that anymore and we are all the worse for it.


I read it cover to cover several times before the whole series reprinted in the mid to late 70s. I think my favourite, by far, was book ummm three I think. The Son of Tarzan. I loved that story of Miriam and Korak. The desperation when Malbihn and the swede separated the two and Korak's despondancy. I hoped I would one day find a love like that. I cried at the end when Tarzan swept in and Korak went back home to Jane.

I also loved the cover artwork of that whole reprint series.
 
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I have a book. Tarzan of the Apes. Printed in 1914, A.C. Mclurg & Co. Not bad condition considering it's age. I can't remember who gave it to me but I've had it since I was a preteen.
I read it cover to cover several times before the whole series reprinted in the mid to late 70s. I think my favourite, by far, was book ummm three I think. The Son of Tarzan. I loved that story of Miriam and Korak. The desperation when Malbihn and the swede separated the two and Korak's despondancy. I hoped I would one day find a love like that. I cried at the end when Tarzan swept in and Korak went back home to Jane.

I also loved the cover artwork of that whole reprint series.

Ah, I feel like I've found a kindred soul! I've read most of the Tarzan books, if not all. (I can't keep track of them after about number 22 or so.) I've read all the Pellucidar books but one or two that I couldn't find, and most of the John Carter of Mars series, along with a few individual stand alone books. Outlaw of Torn was good as I recall, and I enjoyed Eternal Savage too.

Yes, the best thing that happened since sliced bread and peanut butter was when Frank Frazzetta started doing art for ERB stories. Boris Vallejo is another good one!

If ever you would like to do a role play story based on ERB's settings, I'm up for it.
 
Has anybody ever seen any artwork for Robert A. Heinlein's The Number of the Beast?
 
Oooh, thanks Veroe! *Kisses his cheek gratefully!* I'm partial to the Tarzan ones really. The idea of being the spitfire heroine carted off by the primitive forest god of a man to be his mate.....Whew! *Fans myself rapidly with my hand*
 
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