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. Original to this anthology are a Quantum Prelude, a Quantum Postlude, and five new connecting Quantum Interludes in which Victory Harben gives context to the unfolding story of the Super-Arc that occurs between each story, plus the previously unpublished epic novelette "Victory Harben and the Lord of the Veiled Eye" by Christopher Paul Carey, in which the ERB Universe collides head-on with cosmic horror at the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.
THE FIRST UNIVERSE OF ITS KIND
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 Clayton, 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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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 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.
Christopher Paul Carey has edited more than one hundred novels, anthologies, and collections for a variety of publishers. He is the Vice President of Publishing and Creative Director at Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., where he launched the ERB Universe series and created the character of Victory Harben, who has come to life in the pages of both prose fiction and comic books. Carey is the author of several books, including the 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. He lives in Southern California.
