Richard A. Lupoff – författare

So, just how was Tarzan created? Eager to know the inside story about the legendary John Carter and the amazing cities and peoples of Barsoom? Perhaps your taste is more suited to David Innes and the fantastic lost world at the Earth's core? Or maybe wrong-way Napier and the bizarre civilizations of cloud-enshrouded Venus are more to your liking? These pages contain all that you will ever want to know about the wondrous worlds and unforgettable characters penned by the master storyteller Edgar Rice Burroughs. Richard A. Lupoff, the respected critic and writer who helped spark a Burroughs revival in the 1960s, reveals fascinating details about the stories written by the creator of Tarzan. Featured here are outlines of all of Burroughs's major novels, with descriptions of how they were each written and their respective sources of inspiration. This Bison Books edition includes a new foreword by fantasy writer Michael Moorcock, a new introduction by the author, a final chapter by Phillip R. Burger, as well as corrected text and an updated bibliography.

The return of a classic ''shared world'' fantasy series created by Philip Jose Farmer, award-winning author of the RIVERWORLD saga. Plunging into a vast prison that spans a planet, Clive Foliott faces a fantastic world of dwarves, cyborgs and aliens unlike anything he has ever imagined. It is a multi-levelled collection of beings from the hidden folds of time and space. Trapped somewhere inside is Neville Foliott, Clive''s twin brother and no creature in the Dungeon will stop Clive from finding him!

Philip José Farmer, bestselling author of Riverworld, introduces the climatic volume of fantastic adventure within the confines of THE DUNGEON Escape-and victory?Fleeing from the mysterious creators of the Dungeon, Clive Folliot breaks through to the ninth level suddenly, completely alone. Stranded in a freezing polar wilderness, he faces certain death from the cold, but one urgent question drives him onward. His new surroundings bear frightening similarities to the world Clive left behind so long ago. Has he fought through the entire Dungeon-only to discover that the Earth itself is the ninth and final level? Joined by a monster more horrible-yet more human-than anything else he has yet encountered, Clive struggles to find his missing comrades and to triumph at last against the murderous masters of the Dungeon! THE FINAL BATTLE by Richard A. Lupoff With fantastic illustrations by Robert Gould, winner of the World Fantasy Award