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 anthology 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.
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!
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.
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, and Mike Wolfer’s cover art for Victory Harben: Tales from the Void. The Collector’s Edition is limited to only 200 copies.
Preorder your copy of Victory Harben: Tales from the Void today!
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.
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Now Shipping—A Princess of Mars®: Shadow of the Assassins!
We are pleased to announce that the latest ERB Universe novel, A Princess of Mars: Shadow of the Assassins by Ann Tonsor Zeddies, is now in stock and shipping from our warehouse! The novel features Dejah Thoris before the arrival of John Carter on Barsoom, as she sets off on the first adventure of her young life and plunges headlong into a murky den of treachery and deadly peril.
Born to an ancient line of noble and courageous forebears, Dejah Thoris, young and headstrong princess of the mighty empire of Helium, longs for a life of excitement and purpose beyond the cloistered walls of her royal palace. When a foreign ambassador arrives with an invitation to visit his city-state in hopes of fostering diplomatic relations, the princess defies the protests of her father and jed, traveling to the shadowy metropolis of Zor as Helium’s emissary. But Dejah Thoris soon finds that her hosts are not like the gallant folk of Helium, and before she knows it, their nefarious machinations ensnare her in a tangled web of artifice, perfidy, and murder—and a treacherous plot that portends tragedy not only for her own family, but for the entire Heliumetic empire.
Order the trade paperback, standard hardcover, or Collector’s Edition directly from our webstore and receive a free collectible ERB Universe trading card featuring Dejah Thoris and John Carter’s son, Carthoris, with art by J. Allen St. John! For those who read on a screen, the Kindle edition of A Princess of Mars: Shadow of the Assassins releases on September 3 and can be preordered now.
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