Preorder Now: VICTORY HARBEN™: TALES FROM THE VOID
edited by Christopher Paul Carey
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Tuesday, August 20, 2024 (Tarzana, California) Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., the company founded by the creator of Tarzan and John Carter of Mars, is pleased to announce Victory Harben: Tales from the Void,
a 350-page collecting for the first time six thrilling tales of the ERB
Universe's Swords of Eternity Super-Arc. The book includes the all-new
novelette “Victory Harben and the Lord of the Veiled Eye,” as well as an
interconnecting “Quantum Interlude” between each tale in which
spacefaring, time-traveling adventurer Victory Harben gives context to
the unfolding story of the Super-Arc for both new readers and those who
have already read the Swords of Eternity novels.
Victory Harben: Tales from the Void is available in trade paperback, standard hardcover, and a hardcover Collector’s Edition. The book’s production has already been completed, and the anthology is expected to ship to customers in September 2024.
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Cover art by Miriana Puglia, Bruna Costa, and Mike Wolfer
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ACROSS SPACE AND TIME
Collected
here for the first time are six fantastical tales of the Swords of
Eternity Super-Arc, the epic cycle that launched the Edgar Rice
Burroughs Universe series. At the mercy of spacetime’s capricious
vagaries, young scientist Victory Harben finds herself hurled across
worlds by a mysterious force, while pursued by a ruthless winged entity
armed with a flaming sword that consumes souls. Following Victory is
inventor Jason Gridley, intent on finding his goddaughter and bringing
her home. In the course of their world-hopping odyssey, Victory and
Jason will meet friends and allies, and face off against cruel enemies
who will test the steel of their courage. New to this anthology is the
epic novelette “Victory Harben and the Lord of the Veiled Eye” by
Christopher Paul Carey, in which the ERB Universe collides head-on with
cosmic horror at the edge of the solar system!
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Table of Contents
Quantum Prelude: Weird Worlds*
Pellucidar: Dark of the Sun by Christopher Paul Carey
Quantum Interlude: The Wormhole Express*
Victory Harben: Clash on Caspak by Mike Wolfer
Quantum Interlude: Friends and Enemies*
Victory Harben: Stormwinds of Va-nah by Ann Tonsor Zeddies
Quantum Interlude: Cosmic Roulette Wheel*
Victory Harben and the Lord of the Veiled Eye* by Christopher Paul Carey
Quantum Interlude: Kith and Kin*
Jason Gridley of Earth: Across the Moons of Mars by Geary Gravel
Quantum Interlude: The Tapestry of Fate*
Beyond the Farthest Star: Rescue on Zandar by Mike Wolfer
Quantum Coda: Into the Unknown
Quantum Postlude: The Omos Enigma*
* Indicates new material original to this anthology
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Hardcover Limited Collector’s Edition
The hardcover Collector’s Edition features a special ERB Universe bookplate
signed by all four authors—Christopher Paul Carey, Geary Gravel, Mike
Wolfer, and Ann Tonsor Zeddies—as well as a facsimile autograph of Edgar
Rice Burroughs, and includes an exclusive ERB Universe trading card featuring Miriana Puglia, Bruna Costa,
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About the Authors
Christopher Paul Carey is the author of several books, including the ERB Universe novel Victory Harben: Fires of Halos; Swords Against the Moon Men, an authorized sequel to Edgar Rice Burroughs’ The Moon Maid ; Exiles of Kho; The Song of Kwasin (with Philip José Farmer); Hadon, King of Opar ; and Blood of Ancient Opar .
He has also written comic books featuring Burroughs’ characters such as
Tarzan, Dejah Thoris, Carson of Venus, Jason Gridley, and Gretchen von
Harben. Carey is Vice President of Publishing and Creative Director of
the ERB Universe at Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., the company founded by
Mr. Burroughs in 1923. He lives in Southern California.
Geary Gravel is the author of the Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe novel John Carter of Mars: Gods of the Forgotten; the Philip K. Dick Award finalist The Alchemists; and the novels The Pathfinders, A Key for the Nonesuch, and Return of the Breakneck Boys. He has written several novelizations, including Hook, based on the Steven Spielberg film, and Batman: Mask of the Phantasm,
based on the animated movie. He lives in western Massachusetts, where
he worked for decades as a Sign Language Interpreter for the Deaf.
Mike Wolfer is the author of the forthcoming Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe novel The Land That Time Forgot: Fortress Primeval.
He has been a professional writer and illustrator for more than thirty
years, and has been a key talent working on the canonical ERB Universe
comic books, including Jane Porter, Victory Harben, Pellucidar, The Land
That Time Forgot, The Monster Men, and The Moon Maid. Best known for
his Widow series, Wolfer is also the creator of the Daughters of the
Dark Oracle franchise, and has worked on numerous licensed properties.
Ann Tonsor Zeddies
first encountered the Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe as a child, when an
old professor who lived down the street allowed her to choose a volume
from his shelves. She chose Tarzan of the Apes. Later, she read the adventures of John Carter aloud to her young son. She is the author of the ERB Universe novel A Princess of Mars: Shadow of the Assassins,
as well as six other science fiction novels, two of which were Philip
K. Dick Award nominees. Her short fiction includes stories in The Ultimate Silver Surfer and Magic in the Mirrorstone. She lives in Michigan with her husband, near the shores of an inland sea.
Edgar Rice Burroughs®: Master of Adventure™
The
creator of the immortal characters Tarzan of the Apes® and John Carter
of Mars®, Edgar Rice Burroughs is one of the world’s most popular
authors. Mr. Burroughs’ timeless tales of heroes and heroines transport
readers from the jungles of Africa and the dead sea bottoms of Barsoom®
to the miles-high forests of Amtor™ and the savage inner world of
Pellucidar®, and even to alien civilizations Beyond the Farthest Star™.
Mr. Burroughs’ books are estimated to have sold hundreds of millions of
copies, and they have spawned 60 films and 250 television episodes.
Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe™
A
century before the term “crossover” became a buzzword in popular
culture, Edgar Rice Burroughs created the first expansive, fully
cohesive literary universe. Coexisting in this vast cosmos was a
pantheon of immortal heroes and heroines—Tarzan of the Apes®, Jane
Porter®, John Carter®, Dejah Thoris®, Carson Napier™, and David Innes™
being only the best known among them. In Burroughs’ 80-plus novels,
their epic adventures transported them to the strange and exotic worlds
of Barsoom®, Amtor™, Pellucidar®, Caspak™, and Va-nah™, as well as the
lost civilizations of Earth and even realms Beyond the Farthest Star™.
Now the Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe expands in an all-new series of
canonical tales written by today’s talented authors!
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