<b>Original theme anthology.</b> Eleven <i>new </i>tales set in the legendary worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Contains stories by top writers such as Mercedes Lackey, Sarah Hoyt, and Mike Resnick.<p>Eleven <i>new </i>tales set in the legendary worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs. <BR><BR>Most people don’t know it,but the best-selling American writer of the 1920s wasn’t Hemingway orFitzgerald, but Edgar Rice Burroughs. Everyone knows that he created Tarzan,but he wasn’t limited to that one classic creation. There was John Carter, Warlord of Mars. There was Pellucidar, the wondrous world thatexists at the center of the Earth, and Carsonof Venus, the Wrong-Way Corrigan of space, who set off for Mars and wound up onVenus for four novels and part of a fifth.<BR><BR>Many top science fiction andfantasy writers of today grew up reading Burroughs, and this anthology is theirway of “paying back” and thanking him for stirring <i>their </i>imaginations. Join their celebration with these all new tales set in the astounding worlds that Edgar Rice Burroughs brought to life: giving their own spin on the unforgettable characters conceived by one of the great masters of science fiction, adventure, and fantasy.