If Lands out if Time is Borroughs-6...

[Tallor]

If Lands out if Time is Borroughs-6... then what are the five other Burroughs worlds?? O:

And before you say Tarzan, consider that Tarzan is probably already on at least one of the Britanncas. :P

[robkelk]

Oh, there are more than five possibilities, even if one doesn't include Tarzan:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_...Selected_works

Quickly skimming through that list, I'd guess Burroughs-6 is probably the Caspak series. As for the other five, I'd be tempted to assign them, in no particular order, to Pellucidar, Barsoom, The Lost Continent, The Moon Maid, and (yes) Tarzan.

[David Johnston2]

Originally Posted by Tallor

If Lands out if Time is Borroughs-6... then what are the five other Burroughs worlds?? O:

And before you say Tarzan, consider that Tarzan is probably already on at least one of the Britanncas. :P

Any setting that has a planetary romance "Dying Mars" or "Primordial Venus", or "Hollow Earth" could get the Burroughs label. I'm sure GURP Mars has a planetary romance version of Mars. An Earth might even get the label just because humans and dinosaurs co-exist in it.

[Curmudgeon]

As robkelk pointed out there are potentially more than five other worlds remaining if all the Burroughs worlds are solely from Edgar Rice Burroughs' works (and not William Burroughs). However, there are overlaps in some of his worlds as a character in one series either knows, or knows of, a character from another series (occasionally an overlapping book title appears in the listing for both series).

For example, Carson Napier, the protagonist of the Venus series states in his first novel that his rocketship was constructed with the intent of using it to join John Carter on Mars. In a "Wrongwsay" Corrigan moment, he ends up headed for Venus by mistake. Tarzan has a personal acquaintance with David Innes of Pellucidar (and Tarzan at the Earth's Core is the novel I've seen listed as part of both the Tarzan and Pellucidar series.

Among the worlds that robkelk didn't call out, I'd suggest The Mad King (which ties into The Eternal Savage) as a possible replacement for Tarzan with the westerns (particularly Apache Chief and Apache Devil) as another. Cases could be made for others, such as The Mucker.

Just because Burroughs-6 was mentioned, it doesn't mean that there is no Burroughs-7, -8, etc., so probably all of his worlds exist and the main thing would be to read enough of the source materials to know which series are tied together and thus occur in a single world. Another possibility is worlds where Burrroughs has gone askew. One of the text pieces in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen has H.P. Lovecraft's Randolph Carter as the nephew or great-nephew of John Carter which not only tied John Carter's Mars to Lovecraft (reinforced by John Carter's dream-like transit to Mars) but suggests that they in turn are connected to H. Rider Haggard's Allan Quartermain (and She and La of Opar certainly seem like individuals that might exist on the same world, so Tarzan probably exists here as well).

[aesir23]

As other's have said, there are numerous possibilities even if each Burroughs series has it's own world. However, with infinite worlds, there may well be multiple versions of each of Burrough's creations.

You could have two Tarzan parallels, one in which Barsoom also exists on Mars, and one in which it doesn't. And another where Barsoom exists but was never visited by John Carter.

[Philosopher Rogue]

Originally Posted by Curmudgeon

there are potentially more than five other worlds remaining if all the Burroughs worlds are solely from Edgar Rice Burroughs' works (and not William Burroughs).

Great, now I'm imagining GURPS Burroughs & Burroughs! "Nearly Naked Lunch with the Therns", anyone?

[robkelk]

Originally Posted by Philosopher Rogue

Great, now I'm imagining GURPS Burroughs & Burroughs! "Nearly Naked Lunch with the Therns", anyone?

As long as we don't go with GURPS Bunnies & Burroughs... but I think that's already a Game That Should Not Be Played in one of the earlier Murphy's Rules.

[Tallor]

Originally Posted by Curmudgeon

As robkelk pointed out there are potentially more than five other worlds remaining if all the Burroughs worlds are solely from Edgar Rice Burroughs' works (and not William Burroughs). However, there are overlaps in some of his worlds as a character in one series either knows, or knows of, a character from another series (occasionally an overlapping book title appears in the listing for both series).

For example, Carson Napier, the protagonist of the Venus series states in his first novel that his rocketship was constructed with the intent of using it to join John Carter on Mars. In a "Wrongwsay" Corrigan moment, he ends up headed for Venus by mistake. Tarzan has a personal acquaintance with David Innes of Pellucidar (and Tarzan at the Earth's Core is the novel I've seen listed as part of both the Tarzan and Pellucidar series.

Among the worlds that robkelk didn't call out, I'd suggest The Mad King (which ties into The Eternal Savage) as a possible replacement for Tarzan with the westerns (particularly Apache Chief and Apache Devil) as another. Cases could be made for others, such as The Mucker.

Hypothetically then, what would the minimum amount of Burroughs be, if you consolidated those timelines? What I see here is:

1. Venus+Mars
2. Tarzan+Pellucidar

[David Johnston2]

Originally Posted by Curmudgeon

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Just because Burroughs-6 was mentioned, it doesn't mean that there is no Burroughs-7, -8, etc., so probably all of his worlds exist .

The thing is, they don't even have to specifically be Burroughs myth parallels. For example Space 1889 could get the label because even though it isn't a faithful representation of Barsoom et al it's clearly reminiscent of it.

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by Tallor

Hypothetically then, what would the minimum amount of Burroughs be, if you consolidated those timelines? What I see here is:

1. Venus+Mars
2. Tarzan+Pellucidar

All of those plus Beyond the Farthest Star are tied together by Gridley Wave transmissions.