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More Than 4,000 Words Restored from Burroughs’ Original Manuscript
In 1915, as debate raged about the aggressions by the Central Powers in Europe, and whether the United States should allow itself to be drawn into the conflict that would eventually be known as World War I, Edgar Rice Burroughs penned a cautionary allegory about the consequences complete isolationism: the novel Beyond Thirty. In this tale, set in the twenty-second century, the nations of North and South America have entirely cut themselves off from contact with Europe, Africa, and Asia following a terrifying global war, drawing a line at 30 degrees East in the Atlantic and 175 degrees West in the Pacific—a barrier that no soul may cross without suffering the utmost punishment and disgrace. No citizen of the futuristic Pan-American Federation knows the fate of the rest of the world in the intervening two hundred years since it was isolated from the Western Hemisphere. But when an accident causes the aero-submarine Coldwater to inadvertently pass beyond the dreaded thirtieth degree to the European continent, its captain and crew find a post-apocalyptic landscape devoid of all signs of civilization, populated by warlike tribes and ferocious wildlife.
Beyond Thirty was first published in the February 1916 issue of All Around Magazine, and was later retitled The Lost Continent when published in paperback by Ace Books in 1963.
But what has remained unknown until now is that more than 4,000 words, including lengthy passages of text, were excised from Edgar Rice Burroughs’ original hand-corrected typescript by the pulp magazine editor—words that have been absent from every edition since the novel’s first publication. Now Beyond Thirty: Restored Edition corrects this egregious error with its historic release, including a new foreword by editor Christopher Paul Carey discussing the context in which the novel was written, Burroughs’ plans for a film adaptation of the tale, and the significance of restored material.
Beyond Thirty: Restored Edition features classic cover art by Sanjulian and a frontispiece by Frank Frazetta, as well as rare and previously unpublished bonus materials from the archives of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., in Tarzana, California.
This important new edition of Beyond Thirty will be available simultaneously in trade paperback, standard hardcover, and a hardcover Collector’s Edition. The book is expected to ship to customers in January 2026.
Beyond Thirty Sequel On the Way!
Beyond Thirty: Restored Edition is being published in anticipation of a brand-new sequel—Beyond Thirty: A World Reborn by award-winning author Jeffrey J. Mariotte (Tarzan and the Forest of Stone)—which will be released in Spring 2026. Beyond Thirty: A World Reborn will feature new cover art and a frontispiece by renowned illustrator Daren Bader. Make sure to sign up for the Official Edgar Rice Burroughs Newsletter and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, X, and YouTube to stay up to date on all our new releases!
A Stone Age Future
The year is 2137. Two hundred years ago, a horrendous war raged across the globe, so dreadful the Americas isolated themselves from their enemies in the Old World. They decreed that none should ever again pass beyond thirty degrees East—upon pain of court martial, ignominy, and even death. But when the aero-submarine Coldwater suffers a catastrophic loss of its buoyancy generators and drifts into the forbidden zone, Lieutenant Jefferson Turck finds himself abandoned on the shores of Old Europe. There he discovers Great Britain has been blasted back to the Stone Age, with warring tribes evading the lions that roam wild amid the ruins of battle-ravaged London. But the spirit of the lost continent’s glory days survives in Victory, the dethroned Queen of England, and only Jefferson Turck stands in the way of the savage world that conspires against her.
Bonus Trading Card—While Supplies Last!
All preorders of Beyond Thirty: Restored Edition placed directly from ERB, Inc.’s online store will come with an exclusive collectible ERB Universe trading card featuring the protagonist of the novel, Jefferson Turck, and artwork by the legendary Frank Frazetta. Collect all of the trading cards by preordering each ERB Universe novel directly from ERBurroughs.com as they release!
Hardcover Limited Collector’s Edition
The hardcover Collector’s Edition features a special ERB Universe bookplate signed by Restored Edition editor Christopher Paul Carey, as well as a facsimile autograph of Edgar Rice Burroughs, and includes an exclusive ERB Universe trading card featuring the book’s cover art by Sanjulian. The Collector’s Edition is limited to only 300 copies.
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.
ABOUT THE EDITOR
Christopher Paul Carey is Vice President of Publishing and Creative Director of the ERB Universe at Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. He is the author of the ERB Universe novel Victory Harben: Fires of Halos and Swords Against the Moon Men, an authorized sequel to Edgar Rice Burroughs’ classic science fantasy novel The Moon Maid. He has written several comic books set in Mr. Burroughs’ worlds, including Pellucidar: Across Savage Seas, Carson of Venus: The Flames Beyond, and Pathfinder Worldscape: Dejah Thoris. He has edited more than 100 novels, anthologies, and collections for a variety of publishers. Having previously edited Beyond the Farthest Star: Restored Edition, he has had the honor of working with Mr. Burroughs’ original hand-corrected typescript of Beyond Thirty to prepare the text for the present Restored Edition. He lives in Southern California.
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, plus new editions of the Master of Adventure’s classic works!
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