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- Sales Rank: #4306236 in Books
- Published on: 1984-12-01
- Released on: 1955-05-05
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: 5.00" h x 1.00" w x 7.00" l,
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
About the Author
Edgar Rice Burroughs was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1875. After serving a short time in the 7th U.S. Cavalry, Burroughs was a shopkeeper, gold miner, cowboy, and policeman before becoming a full-time writer. His first novel, Tarzan of the Apes, was published in 1914, and along with its 22 sequels has sold over 30 million copies in 58 languages. Author of numerous other jungle and science fiction novels and novellas, including The Land That Time Forgot, Burroughs had a writing career that spanned almost 30 years, with his last novel, The Land of Terror, being published in 1941. He died in 1950 at his ranch near Tarzana, the California town named for his legendary hero.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
The final Amtor adventure and an ERB morality play
By Lawrance Bernabo
"The Wizard of Venus" was written by Edgar Rice Burroughs in 1941 but was not published until 1964, having spent a couple of decades in a safe. This became the fifth and final story in the Carson of Venus series, although it is clearly intended to be the first in a series of connected novellas, which was what ERB did in "Escape on Venus." Carson Napier took off in a rocket ship from Earth intended to go to Mars, but he forgot to account for the gravitational affects of the Moon and ended up on Venus. There he became entangled with the beautiful Duare, who did not give him the time of day for the first three stories, which was a moot point because usually they were separated by circumstances. The standard Burroughs formula, where the hero's beloved is captured and he has to fight his way across an alien landscape to rescue her, was less evident in these final ERB novels, although it is difficult to say whether it was World War II or the author's declining health that took most of the wind out of his sails.
Once again using telepathy to pass his story on to ERB, Carson tells of an adventure with Duare and their friend Ero Shan. They first meet in Havatoo when Carson built his first anotar (the first airplane on Venus), and later when prisoners in Voo-ad. Now Carson is experimenting with a more advanced anotar and when the two friends take it out for a test flight, they have a few problems. Landing in a strange and beautiful land, they are accused of being wizards by the inhabitants of the local castle, who are worried about somebody called Morgas. Once he shows up, the fun begins in earnest. Again, these Venus books show more tongue in cheek humor than we usually find in Burroughs (Carson and Ero Shan take to calling each other Sir Galahad and Sir Gawain at one point), and overall represent the best work ERB did in his final years.
"Pirate Blood" was another ERB novella found in that same safe, although it was apparently written back in 1932. The hero is Johnny LaFitte, who is descended from the infamous Jean LaFitte. The story returns to one of ERB's favorite themes, heredity versus environment, and his belief that it you do not have the right environment a "bad seed" will indeed go bad. This is a very atypical Burroughs novel, filled with cold blooded murders, violent rapes, and suicide. There is even an illegitimate pregnancy between Johnny and his gal as ERB really lays on the morality play. Clearly the only reason that "Pirate Blood" was published with "The Wizard of Venus" was because they were found in that safe together. These stories have nothing in common and "Pirate Blood" really reads like a first draft that ERB just never went back and revised. The last Venus story is the attraction here, and the other a minor curiosity.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Lost Tales and Potboilers
By Robert S. Clay Jr.
Much as J. R. R. Tolkien and others, Edgar Rice Burroughs, popular purveyor of pulp fiction, had "lost" tales. I like to read ERB, but this is not the Mars books or even the best of the Tarzan books. This volume contains two unrelated stories, but are illustrative of second string ERB. "The Wizard of Venus" continues the saga of Wrong Way Carson, who set out for Mars and found Venus instead. I agree with ERB biographer Richard A. Lupoff, the story has merit as an easy introduction to the Venus series. If you dont't like it, you don't have to bother reading any of the other four volumes. "Pirate Blood" is a foray into 20th Century pirate-adventure land. Even for pulp fiction, this tale relies way too much on ERB's love of fantastic coincidence. Through several wild circumstantial developments, a California motorcycle cop, who is also a descendant of Jean Lafitte, joins modern pirates raiding in the Pacific. Both stories were found among ERB's writings after his death. They could be first drafts that await revision. ERB fans should be happy with the results. ;-)
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The wizard story is the last in the Venus series, but the pirate story is better
By Solipso
"The Wizard of Venus":
The ISBN of the 1983 Ace mass-market paperback that I read is 0441901956. This copy contains "The Wizard of Venus" and the unrelated story "Pirate Blood." The first 86 pages are devoted to "The Wizard of Venus," and eight of those are blank. So even the more generous Edgar Rice Burroughs' fans should hesitate to call this a novel. But you might want to read it because it is the last published story in Burroughs' Venus series.
Carson Napier, the hero of the Venus series, adopts a new modus operandi. In preceding adventures he employs physical skills of boxing and fencing. Through his intermediary Mr. Burroughs, Carson has previously informed us of his skills of telepathy, but he has not used them. Now he does.
Carson and his companion Ero Shan take off to test Carson's new aeroplane. Thick fog, even worse than Venus's normal permanent overcast, forces them down in an unknown land with medieval castles. The people are, allegedly, oppressed by a wizard who can turn them into zorats (Venus's strange equivalent of horses). Before they can continue on their way home, Carson and Ero Shan are compelled, as well as obliged, to help out. And they do.
Besides PIRATES OF VENUS, LOST ON VENUS, CARSON OF VENUS, ESCAPE ON VENUS, and "The Wizard of Venus," there is only one Burroughs-Venus item that I know of. Mentioned in an appendix of Irwin Porges's biography of Burroughs, it is two-and-a-half pages of an unfinished story that Burroughs was writing in Honolulu when the bombing of Pearl Harbor interrupted him. Then he became occupied by the war, and Venus was abandoned. Porges notes that "The Wizard of Venus" and the unfinished story "...were planned as the first of a proposed three or four novelettes in a new Venus series."
"Pirate Blood":
This is a fictional autobiography of John Lafitte, a southern Californian circa 1932 and a descendant of the controversial historical figure Jean Lafitte. John's bloodline is humble compared to that of Frank Adams, his best friend, who has two presidents as ancestors. And though the family of John's high school heartthrob, Daisy, becomes wealthy in an oil boom, John remains the son of a shoemaker. But he seems to be settling down all right as a motorcycle policeman when life throws him two impossible-to-hit fastballs. One is that Daisy tells him she is going to marry Frank. The other is that John's efforts to catch a bank robber end with John being dropped into a perilous mess of modern-day pirates. Now he is has two strikes and must struggle against poor odds to recover.
Though a science fiction fan, I found this story deeper, more complex, and more visceral than "The Wizard of Venus." But magazine after magazine rejected it in 1932, and it was not published until 1970, posthumously. Even then, and even though it's twice as long as "The Wizard of Venus," Ace Books placed "Pirate Blood" behind the former, which also got the cover art.
Usually the morals of an Edgar Rice Burroughs protagonist are as heroic as his hero. But despite its style, which makes Burroughs' authorship authentic, "Pirate Blood" has a hero whose morals are shaky. John excuses his homicidal experiences and piracy by saying that circumstances forced him to join the pirates and that he was urged on by ancestral blood. Still....
In his introduction to the Bison Books edition of PIRATES OF VENUS, F. Paul Wilson says that "Pirate Blood" is "...an unsold eugenics broadside in story form from the 1930s." I disagree. Burroughs was an adherent of eugenics, as is his character John Lafitte, and eugenics affords an explanation for why the character fits in smoothly with pirates. But in no way, shape, or form is "Pirate Blood" a boring, argumentative spewing of political or scientific prose. It is an adventure story by the Master of Adventure, and you don't need to believe in the hero's ideas about genetics in order to be pleased.
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