Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs (49 page)

Richard A. Lupoff became a leading figure in the Burroughs Revival of the 1960s when he was appointed Editor-in-Chief of Canaveral Press. He was responsible for the editing and publication of many posthumous Burroughs works, including
Tales of Three Planets, Tarzan and the Madman, Tarzan and the Castaways,
and
John Carter of Mars.
His studies of Burroughs and his creations,
Edgar Rice Burroughs: Master of Adventure
and
Barsoom: Edgar Rice Burroughs and the Martian Vision,
have become standard works of scholarship and criticism. His many other books include
The Great American Paperback
and
Writer at Large,
as well as many science fiction and mystery novels, and more than 100 short stories. In recent years he has held editorial posts at Canyon Press and Surinam Turtle Press, and on magazines including
Organ, Ramparts, Science Fiction Eye,
and
Locus.

Todd McCaffrey

Todd Johnson McCaffrey wrote his first science-fiction story when he was twelve and has been writing on and off ever since. Including the
New York Times
bestselling
Dragon’s Fire
, he has written eight books in the Pern universe both solo and in collaboration with his mother, Anne McCaffrey. His short stories have appeared in numerous anthologies. He is currently working on a Scottish steampunk alternate history. Visit his website at
http://www.toddmccaffrey.org

Mike Resnick

Mike Resnick is, according to
Locus,
the all-time leading award-winner, living or dead, for short fiction. He is the winner of five Hugos, a Nebula, and other major awards in the USA, France, Japan, Poland, Croatia, and Spain. Mike is the author of seventy-one novels, more than two hundred fifty short stories, and three screenplays, and the editor of more than forty anthologies. His work has been translated into twenty-seven languages. He was the Guest of Honor at the 2012 World Science Fiction Convention.

Ralph Roberts

Edgar Rice Burroughs and Ralph Roberts have several things in common—they’re both writers, they both like Tarzan and John Carter of Mars and they both served in the same army unit, the 7th Cavalry, Custer’s old outfit. ERB served in the 1890s, out in Arizona territory, which explains the birth of Shoz-Dijiji, War Chief of the
Be-don-ko-he
Apaches, son of Geronimo. Ralph was with the unit in a later time of war, Vietnam. After the 7th Cav, ERB began writing Tarzan and John Carter novels, while Ralph worked with NASA during the Apollo moon-landing program, then proceeded to write more computer books than Burroughs, something over one hundred. With “Apache Lawman,” Roberts and ERB come back together again, old cavalry brothers of different mothers and separate times . . . but of one mind about that noble savage, Shoz-Dijiji—and, thus, the Black Bear lives and loves his white goddess, Wichita Billings, once more.

Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Kristine Kathryn Rusch read her first Tarzan novel in the summer of her twelfth year. That year she also discovered Andre Norton, Victoria Holt, and boys. It was a good year. Since then, she’s become a bestselling author whose novels have been published in fifteen languages. Her short fiction has won numerous awards, including the Hugo, which she also won for editing. For more information, please go to her website at
www.kristinekathrynrusch.com.

F. Paul Wilson

F. Paul Wilson is the award-winning,
New York Times
bestselling author of forty-plus books and many short stories spanning medical thrillers, sf, horror, adventure, and virtually everything between. More than nine million copies of his books are in print in the US, and his work has been translated into twenty-four languages. He also has written for the stage, screen, and interactive media. He was introduced to the worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs in high school via the Ace reprints with the cool Frazetta and Krenkel covers and devoured each new title as soon as it was released. His latest thriller,
Cold City
, stars the notorious urban mercenary Repairman Jack, and is the first of
The Early Years Trilogy
.
Dark City
follows soon. He currently resides at the Jersey Shore and can be found on the Web at
www.repairmanjack.com
.