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Saturday, May 27, 2006

Top 10 Best Names from Edgar Rice Burroughs

One of the great talents possessed by the sci-fi-adventure novelist Edgar Rice Burroughs was the effortless creation of elegant, illustrative, poetic - in all ways perfect - names for his fantastic characters, places, creatures.

Here are ten of his greatest:

  1. Banth
  2. Barsoom
  3. Dejah Thoris
  4. Kerchak
  5. Mahar
  6. Pellucidar
  7. Phutra
  8. Sabor
  9. Tars Tarkas
  10. Tarzan

Read 'em and weep, George Lucas! Who's your daddy, beeeeeaaatchhhh?!!!!!


Pellucidar

2 Comments:

Good ERB name choices.
To learn more about the Master of Fantasy Adventure, Grandfather of American Science Fiction, and the creator of Tarzan, John Carter of Mars, et al:
The Official Edgar Rice Burroughs Websites and Webzines are at:
www.ERBzine.com
www.Tarzan.com
www.Tarzan.org
www.JohnColemanBurroughs.com
www.BurroughsBibliophiles.com

Bill Hillman
Editor and Webmaster

- By Anonymous Anonymous, at Fri Aug 18, 03:15:00 PM BST  

Great! Thanks for the links, Bill!

- By Blogger Neal Romanek, at Mon Aug 21, 10:25:00 PM BST  

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