Beyond the Farthest Star

In 1963, the author’s son, Hulbert Burroughs, conducted an extensive investigation of ERB’s papers, and discovered that, despite all skepticism, the “manuscript legend” was no legend at all—that scores of unpublished manuscripts did exist, ranging from fragments and outlines of stories projected but never written, up to several complete novels. In the science-fiction field there were three unpublished novelettes. One has already been published by Ace Books as the final portion of the novel Savage Pellucidar. The second, Tangor Returns, became Part II of Beyond the Farthest Star. When Part I of Beyond the Farthest Star appeared in an adventure magazine in 1941, it was obviously intended as the opening sequence of a science-fantasy adventure novel . . . or more likely, as the beginning of a whole new series of novels in the tradition of Burroughs’ Mars, Venus, and Pellucidar series.