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, and has been reprinted once since.
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| Author | Edgar Rice Burroughs |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Roy G. Krenkel |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Canaveral Press |
Publication date | 1964 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 283 |
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" 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 for January 1942; the others were published for the first time in the collection.
Contents
edit- "Introduction" (Richard A. Lupoff)
- "The Resurrection of Jimber-Jaw" (1937)
- "Beyond the Farthest Star" (1942)
- "Tangor Returns" (1964)
- "The Wizard of Venus" (1941)
External links
edit- ERBzine C.H.A.S.E.R ENCYCLOPEDIA entry for Resurrection of Jimber-Jaw
- ERBzine C.H.A.S.E.R ENCYCLOPEDIA entry for Beyond the Farthest Star
- ERBzine C.H.A.S.E.R ENCYCLOPEDIA entry for Wizard of Venus
- Tales of Three Planets title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Fantastic Fiction entry