Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} The Radio Man by Ralph Milne Farley ISBN 13: 9781533601650. Other title- "An Earth Man on Venus". High Adventure and Strange Romance on a World of Mystery When Myles Cabot accidentally transmitted himself to the planet Venus, he found himself naked and bewildered on a mystery world where every unguarded minute might mean a horrible death. Man-eating plants, tiger-sized spiders, and dictatorial ant-men kept Myles on the run until he discovered the secret of the land—that humanity was a slave-race and that the monster ants were the real rulers of the world! But Cabot was resourceful, and when his new found love, the Kewpie-doll princess Lilla, called for help, the ant-men learned what an angry Earthman can do. The Radio Man is a science-fiction adventure packed with the excitement of an Edgar Rice Burroughs, and the science-vision of an H. G. Wells. You won’t be able to put it down once you start it. On the planet VENUS you will meet— THIS EARTHMAN MYLES CABOT, a good-looking young Boston radio experimenter, who accidentally broadcast himself bodily to another world. THESE GIANT ANTS QUEEN FORMIS, a twelve-foot-high monster, who ruled a world from an egg-laying couch, and could conceive of no mercy for her human slaves. DOGGO, who became Myles Cabot’s friend through a curious accident and who first showed Myles the ropes on that queer planet. SATAN, who was given that name by Myles for the unpleasant reason that he deserved it—and who lived up to it. THESE VENUSIAN PEOPLE PRINCESS LILLA, the lovely girl with the Kewpie wings, who held the key to the throne of Venus and the key to Myles’ heart simultaneously. YURI, the suave scoundrel who wouldn’t hesitate to sell out his whole race to get Lilla’s hand by force. TORON, who tipped Myles off to Lilla’s private intentions in order to save himself from slavery. BTHUH, the beautiful lady who conspired to win Myles for herself, though she had to help his deadliest enemies to do it. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Ralph Milne Farley Roger Sherman Hoar (April 8, 1887 – October 10, 1963) was a state senator and assistant Attorney General, state of Massachusetts. He also wrote science fiction under the pseudonym of "Ralph Milne Farley". The Harvard-educated Hoar was the product of a New England family—the son of Sherman Hoar, grandson of former US Attorney General Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, great-grandson of Samuel Hoar, and great-great grandson of American founding father Roger Sherman, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Born in Waltham, Massachusetts, Hoar received his bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1909 and his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1911. During World War I, he served in the United States Army Coast Artillery Corps. Hoar was a former Massachusetts assistant attorney general. He was a member of the Marquette University faculty in the graduate school of engineering. He also served as attorney of Bucyrus Erie Company of South Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Under the pseudonym Ralph Milne Farley, Hoar wrote a considerable amount of pulp-magazine science fiction during the period between the world wars, appearing in such publications as Argosy All-Story Weekly, Weird Tales, True Gang Life, and Amazing Stories, as well as occasional essays for The American Mercury, Scientific American, and science fiction fanzines. His works include The Radio Man and its numerous sequels, chiefly interplanetary and inner-world adventure yarns in the tradition of Edgar Rice Burroughs, with whom he was friends; Hoar also wrote a number of archetypal time-travel-paradox tales, collected in book form as The Omnibus of Time, and "The House of Ecstasy," told in the second-person and frequently reprinted since its initial appearance in Weird Tales (April 1938 issue). Upon relocating to the Midwest, where he worked as a corporate attorney for the firm of Bucyrus-Erie, Hoar joined the Milwaukee Fictioneers, whose members included Stanley G. Weinbaum, Robert Bloch, and Raymond A. Palmer. When Chicago-based Ziff-Davis Publishing Company bought the ailing Amazing Stories in 1938, Hoar was offered, but declined, the magazine's editorship and recommended Palmer, who held the position through the 1940s. ISBN 13: 9781479422142. When Myles Cabot is accidentally transmitted to the planet Venus, he finds himself naked and bewildered on a mystery world where every unguarded minute might mean a horrible death. Man-eating plants, tiger-sized spiders, and dictatorial ant-men keep Myles on the run until he discovers the secret of the land: that humans are a slave-race and that the monster-sized ants are the real rulers of the world! But Cabot is resourceful, and when his new-found love, the princess Lilla, calls for help, the ant-men learn what an angry Earthman can do. THE RADIO MAN is a science-fiction adventure packed with the excitement of an Edgar Rice Burroughs, and the scientific vision of an H. G. Wells. You won’t be able to put it down once you start reading! "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Ralph Milne Farley Roger Sherman Hoar (April 8, 1887 – October 10, 1963) was a state senator and assistant Attorney General, state of Massachusetts. He also wrote science fiction under the pseudonym of "Ralph Milne Farley". The Harvard-educated Hoar was the product of a New England family—the son of Sherman Hoar, grandson of former US Attorney General Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, great-grandson of Samuel Hoar, and great-great grandson of American founding father Roger Sherman, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Born in Waltham, Massachusetts, Hoar received his bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1909 and his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1911. During World War I, he served in the United States Army Coast Artillery Corps. Hoar was a former Massachusetts assistant attorney general. He was a member of the Marquette University faculty in the graduate school of engineering. He also served as attorney of Bucyrus Erie Company of South Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Under the pseudonym Ralph Milne Farley, Hoar wrote a considerable amount of pulp-magazine science fiction during the period between the world wars, appearing in such publications as Argosy All-Story Weekly, Weird Tales, True Gang Life, and Amazing Stories, as well as occasional essays for The American Mercury, Scientific American, and science fiction fanzines. His works include The Radio Man and its numerous sequels, chiefly interplanetary and inner-world adventure yarns in the tradition of Edgar Rice Burroughs, with whom he was friends; Hoar also wrote a number of archetypal time-travel-paradox tales, collected in book form as The Omnibus of Time, and "The House of Ecstasy," told in the second-person and frequently reprinted since its initial appearance in Weird Tales (April 1938 issue). Upon relocating to the Midwest, where he worked as a corporate attorney for the firm of Bucyrus-Erie, Hoar joined the Milwaukee Fictioneers, whose members included Stanley G. Weinbaum, Robert Bloch, and Raymond A. Palmer. When Chicago-based Ziff-Davis Publishing Company bought the ailing Amazing Stories in 1938, Hoar was offered, but declined, the magazine's editorship and recommended Palmer, who held the position through the 1940s. The Radio Man by Ralph Milne Farley. The Radio Man The planet Venus is many millions of miles away from Earth, but for Myles Cabot of Boston, it was too dangerously close -- for a queer radio accident transmitted the young scientist instantaneously to that mystery world -- unarmed, naked, and with no means to get home! Hardcover w/dust jacket: 6 x 9 inch 188 pages $30.00 ISBN 978-1987076172. The Radio Beasts Myles Standish Cabot, radio genius, who solved the secret of the wireless transmission of matter, returns to Earth from the planet Venus, whose inhabitants, the Cupians, are much like men, except that they have antennae instead of ears, and communicate by radio. Cabot relates how the conquered Formians, giant, intelligent ant-men, conspired with Prince Yuri, a renegade Cupian, and his followers to again take control of the planet. Hardcover w/dust jacket: 6 x 9 inch 246 pages $30.00 ISBN 978-1987076196. The Radio Planet Myles Cabot, a radio expert, who has married Princess Lilla, the queen of Cupia on the planet Venus, returns to the earth for a visit. When Princess Lilla sends an SOS, Cabot starts back to Cupia by wireless but a thunderstorm throws him off course and he lands on a different continent where he is confronted by his old enemies, Prince Yuri and the Formians, the giant ant-men of Venus! Hardcover w/dust jacket: 6 x 9 inch 290 pages $30.00 ISBN 978-1987076226. The Radio Minds FIRST EDITION HARDCOVER! Contains the final two stories in the "Radio Man" series starring Myles Cabot. The original text of "The Radio Man Returns" from the Amazing Stories pulp magazine and "The Radio Minds of Mars" from Spaceway magazine, plus the original illustrations. "The Radio Man Returns": Unseen wings menace the President of the United States until the Radio Man returns to pit Venus' science against invisibility. "The Radio Minds of Mars": What would a struggle for survival be like if all the thoughts and plans of all the combatants were known to each other the moment they were formed? Hardcover w/dust jacket: 6 x 9 inch 130 pages $30.00 ISBN 978-1987076264. PULP TALES PRESENTS #10: ERIC OF AZTALAN. Contents: Eric of Aztalan Pe-Ra, Daughter of the Sun The Time-Wise Guy The Danger From the Deep The Invisible Bomber. The Radio Flyers. Eric Redmond and Angus Selkirk head a secret polar expedition. The two of them start out in their plane on May 2, 1926, racing the Byrd and Amundsen expeditions. A leak in the gas line forces them to land, and the irregular ice smashes one ski and the propeller blade. Eric takes blankets and food, and starts on a brief reconnoitering trip. When he returns, both Angus and the crippled plane are gone. Eric presses on toward the pole. He gets adrift on an iceberg, which carries him, as he thinks, across the pole and down the other side of the world. Here everything is strange-a fixed sun directly overhead, tropical warmth, an upward-curving horizon. At last he figures it out-the world is hollow, with a central "sun" and he has gone over the edge, at the polar orifice. There he meets Helga, a Viking descendant. Hardcover w/Dust Jacket: 6 x 9 inch 314 pages $29.95 ISBN 978-1987090376. The Radio Menace The Whoomangs have returned! They have invaded the Earth! Those who know are considered crazy! How will the Earth be saved? And who are the Whoomangs? If you have read Farley's "The Radio Planet", you are aware of the Whoomangs. They reside on a continent on Venus where Myles Cabot, the Radio Man, Doggo, the Ant Man, and Quivven, the Golden Flame, landed, and each Whoomang has a "new soul". Well, at the conclusion of that book, Doggo and Quivven were still with the Whoomangs. They have now returned in this current book, and they are responsible for the invasion of the Earth. Follow the exploits of Assistant U.S. Attorney, Eliot Endicott and newspaper man Lawrence Larrabee as they try to unravel the mysterious happenings and disappearances in the United States, and uncover the plot of the Whoomangs. Illustrated. Hardcover w/dust jacket: 6 x 9 inch 270 pages $29.95 ISBN 978-1078708869. The Radio Pirates FIRST TIME IN HARDCOVER! On the evening of June 3, 1934, a strange message was caught by radio fans throughout America. A man calling himself "Serge, Emperor of the Earth," announced that he was about to begin his conquest of the world. He tries to force submission of America by consistently destroying shipping and naval vessels with his radio-directed fleet of one-man submarines. Two men, Hugh Leigh, a Boston lawyer and secret service operative, and his son Bob, stand between Serge and his ultimate victory--and they have disappeared! Hardcover w/dust jacket: 6 x 9 inch 166 pages $30.00 ISBN 978-1987076356. The Radio War FIRST EDITION! From the creator of the "Radio Man" series of Myles Cabot, comes this future war story (written in 1932, set in 2000) pitting the United States against Soviet Siberia. Follow the adventures of John Farley Pease, the great grandson of the author, as he matches wits against the greatest scientists of his time. Illustrated. Hardcover w/dust jacket: 6 x 9 inch 204 pages $30.00 ISBN 978-1365086007. The Golden City It was Adams Mayhew against the Spider, mad genius of Mu - with the existence of that lost Pacific continent at stake. This is a novel of the lost continent of Lemuria by the author of the Radio Man series of Venus stories and many other science fiction adventure tales. Hardcover w/dust jacket: 6 x 9 inch 214 pages $30.00 ISBN 978-1987076349. Ralph Milne Farley Collection 1 Gathered together into this first collection of Farley's work are 3 stories: "The Immortality of Alan Whidden" (a time travel story), "City of Lost Souls" (a Foreign Legion on Mars story), and "Who Killed Gilbert Foster?" (a detective story). Hardcover w/dust jacket: 6 x 9 inch 174 pages $29.95 ISBN 978-1078708227. Trade Paperback: 6 x 9 inch 174 pages $12.95 ISBN 978-1078708210. Ralph Milne Farley Collection 2 This second collection of stories by Ralph Milne Farley (Roger Sherman Hoar) contains "Pe-Ra, Daughter of the Sun", "The House of Ectasy", "Holy City of Mars", "The Invisible Bomber", "The 'Rexmel'", "Wish I Had Written That", two "Meet the Authors" biographies from Amazing Stories and one on his pen-name, Lieut. John Pease. Fully illustrated with the original magazine artwork. Hardcover w/dust jacket: 6 x 9 inch 182 pages $29.95 ISBN 978-1078708265. Trade Paperback: 6 x 9 inch 182 pages $14.95 ISBN 978-1078708258. A seventeen chapter round-robin serial written by eighteen science fiction authors: Ralph Milne Farley, David H. Keller, M.D., Arthur J. Burks, Bob Olsen, Francis Flagg, John W. Campbell, Rae Winters (Raymond A. Palmer), Otis Adelbert Kline, E. Hoffman Price, Abner J. Gelula, Raymond A. Palmer, A. Merritt, J. Harvey Haggard, Edward E. Smith, Ph.D., P. Schuyler Miller, L. A. Eshbach, Eando Binder, Edmond Hamilton. An evil hitlerish dictator of one of the planets of Alpha Centauri, unsatisfied with ruling one planet, must spread out and subjugate others. He knows none to conquer in his own system-they are all either uninhabitable or invin-cible. So he casts his evil eyes on the solar system. This dog's name incidentally is Ay-Artz. There exist saviors on Lemnis, Ay-Artz's home planet. They are Dos-Tev, rightful heir to the throne of Lemnis who was bounced out by the rebel- lious Ay-Artz, his scientist friend and mentor Mea-Quin, and their servant-warrior-errand-boy Bullo. Hearing of Ay-Artz's evil designs they determine to warn to solarites and help defeat Ay-Artz once and for all. Their struggle to inform the various solar plan-ets' peoples of Ay-Artz's de-signs, the struggles of the people of Sol to defeat Ay-Artz and to defend their planets against him, forms the general run of the "novel's" progress. Eventually, of course, Ay-Artz is defeated-in the final in-stallment, written by old universe-wrecker Edmond Hamil-ton. Hardcover w/dust jacket: 6 x 9 inch 336 pages $29.95 ISBN 978-1987076370. Trade Paperback: 6 x 9 inch 336 pages $15.95 ISBN 978-1987069518. For an Epub for the Nook Reader, Click Here. STORIES BY RALPH MILNE FARLEY, OTIS ADELBERT KLINE, FRANK BELKNAP LONG, STANLEY G. WEINBAUM. A collection of stories written by Ralph Milne Farley, Otis Adelbert Kline, Frank Belknap Long, and Stanley G. Weinbaum, plus poems and stories by Weinbaum while in the University of Wisconsin. RETURN OF THE UNDEAD by Otis Adelbert Kline and Frank Belknap Long THE CUP OF BLOOD by Otis Adelbert Kline THE STRATOSPHERE MENACE by Ralph Milne Farley I KILLED HITLER by Ralph Milne Farley SMOTHERED SEAS by Ralph Milne Farley and Stanley G. Weinbaum YELLOW SLAVES by Ralph Milne Farley and Stanley G. Weinbaum plus the following stories and poems from the Wisconsin Literary Magazine written by Stanley G. Weinbaum reprinted in facsimile format: LUNARIA SEMIRAMIS MOSTLY YVONNE NOTHING MUCH A TALE OF THE DESERT IN ISPAHAN A GHAZEL YACINTH TWO SUNSETS TO KANI. Hardcover w/dust jacket: 6 x 9 inch 212 pages $29.95 ISBN 978-1078702492. Trade Paperback: 6 x 9 inch 212 pages $14.95 ISBN 978-1987076042. The Radio Man. When Myles Cabot is accidentally transmitted to the planet Venus, he finds himself naked and bewildered on a mystery world where every unguarded minute might mean a horrible death. Man-eating plants, tiger-sized spiders, and dictatorial ant-men keep Myles on the run until he discovers the secret of the land: that humans are a slave-race and that the monster-sized ants are the real rulers of the world! But Cabot is resourceful, and when his new-found love, the princess Lilla, calls for help, the ant-men learn what an angry . Read More. When Myles Cabot is accidentally transmitted to the planet Venus, he finds himself naked and bewildered on a mystery world where every unguarded minute might mean a horrible death. Man-eating plants, tiger-sized spiders, and dictatorial ant-men keep Myles on the run until he discovers the secret of the land: that humans are a slave-race and that the monster-sized ants are the real rulers of the world! But Cabot is resourceful, and when his new-found love, the princess Lilla, calls for help, the ant-men learn what an angry Earthman can do. THE RADIO MAN is a science-fiction adventure packed with the excitement of an Edgar Rice Burroughs, and the scientific vision of an H. G. Wells. You won't be able to put it down once you start reading! Read Less. All Copies ( 4 ) Softcover ( 4 ) Choose Edition ( 1 ) Book Details Seller Sort. 1948, Fantasy Publishing Co. Nashville, TN, USA. Edition: 1948, Fantasy Publishing Co. Paperback, Very Good Details: Edition: 1st Edition Publisher: Fantasy Publishing Co. Published: 1948 Language: English Alibris ID: 15761977688 Shipping Options: Standard Shipping: €3,59 Trackable Expedited: €7,19. Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination. Seller's Description: Near Fine in Fine jacket. Book Great book in NEAR FINE condition with eight pencil point dots on bottom edge. Appears unread. Bright AS NEW DJ-looks brand new but price clipped (can still read "Price" and very bottom edge of a number or dollar sign-someone has written $2.00 just below it). 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Seller's Description: Good. ► Contact This Seller. 2016, Wildside Press. Newport Coast, CA, USA. Edition: 2016, Wildside Press Trade paperback, New Details: ISBN: 1479422142 ISBN-13: 9781479422142 Pages: 134 Publisher: Wildside Press Published: 2016 Language: English Alibris ID: 16542841325 Shipping Options: Standard Shipping: €3,59. Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination. The Radio Man by Ralph Milne Farley. Over 15,000 Webpages in Archive Volume 1515. RADIO PELLUCIDAR. By Den Valdron. RADIO PELLUCIDAR Farley's Flyers of Pellucidar I'd like to take a moment or two to look at Ralph Milne Farley's Radio Flyers , with perhaps a note or two to his Radio Gun-Runners . I've written about Ralph Milne Farley in Radio Free Venus and I'll happily refer you to that article. I feel no special need to repeat myself at length. Instead, I'll simply note that after Otis Adelbert Kline, Ralph Milne Farley was probably the most interesting of the Burroughs imitators. Where Kline worked jungle men, Mars and Venus, Farley worked Venus and Pellucidar. Alternately, I've also written a couple of essays on the origins of Pellucidar in pseudo science and in fiction, and I'll happily refer those to you as well. On the other hand, you don't need to read any of these to get through this. Ralph Milne Farley (actually Roger Sherman Hoar) wrote a trio of novels, the Radio Man series, in the 1920s, set on Venus which were very very reminiscent of Burroughs Martian stories. From there, he'd written an alien invasion novel that tied to his Venus trilogy, and eventually returned in the late '30s to a couple of Radio Man adventures. Along the way, he wrote an inner world novel titled The Radio Flyers Essentially, the story is that a Chicago newspaperman sends a couple of intrepid aviators, Eric Redmond and Angus Selkirk to fly to the north pole and back. Now, there'd been expeditions to the pole before, but this was the 1920s, when people were inventing new aircraft every other week and were always in the news for flying from one place to another place. It was the age of Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhardt. Things don't go so well, because once they reach the polar region, they get lost. Even worse, they crash. Separated Eric drifts on the ice floes. But instead of freezing to death, he finds themselves entering warmer waters. Their ice melts, he makes it to shore, and there he discover Vikings and Cavemen. The Vikings are Christian settlers of Greenland, whose ship had drifted into the interior world. The Cavemen are actually inuit. Or more precisely, they're the ancestors of the Inuit people, who according to this, were originally inner world dwellers who drifted into the frigid outer world and adapted. Eric, who knows a bit of Swedish, manages to communicate with the Norsemen, hooks up with the local beauty queen/chief's daughter, Helga, rescuing her from some cavemen. It turns out that the girl is accident prone: At one point, a giant pterodactyl tries to fly off with her, and at another point, a seven foot ape man tries to abduct her, if that's not bad enough, traitorous Vikings want her for themselves, so its just as well Eric is around. They get captured, they escape, Eric figures out Hess inside the world. There are woolly mammoths, glyptodonts and giant sloths, life is pretty primitive. Luckily, there's a bright interior sun to keep everything lit. Angus shows up in the airplane, having had his own adventures, and the two friends have a reunion. Of course, Helga gets lost again, and more adventures happen. She's abducted by a pterodactyl but manages to kill it herself. Angus hooks up with Astroo, a Skraeling Princess, which is good, but their airplane runs out of gas, which is bad. They decide to build hang gliders, using pterodactyl leather for their material. Then they hook up with Helga's Norse people, but that gets complicated, because there's a big battle with the Skraelings, and some ambitious Vikings side with the Skraelings so that they make themselves the rulers of the Vikings. Eventually, everything works out though, and Angus and Eric settle down to a happy life with their savage Princesses and adapt to this new world quite nicely. So much for the Radio Flyers . Unfortunately, of the Radio Gun Runners , we know very little. On Bill Hillman's Erbzine , there's a passage discussing Farley, where it is noted that the characters in the Radio Gun-Runner s figure out that they're entering the inner world by reading the Radio Gun Runners in Argosy magazine. So, obviously, it's a sort of sequel to Radio Flyers , set in Farley's Pellucidar, but that's as far as we can get. Farley liked to do stuff like that. The Radio Flyers itself references the Radio Man adventures and publications in Argosy . The chronicler of both the Radio Flyer and Radio Man adventures is the same fictional Robert Milne Farley, and we must assume that they're both �true� chronicles to each other. In the Radio Beasts , Myles Cabot returns to Earth and mentions that Hess read the chronicles of his adventure as Radio Man , published in Argosy . Then again in the Radio Man Return s, various persons challenge the fictional Farley on the reality of Myles Cabot. It's a neat literary conceit that tends to tie his worlds together. The inner world or Farley's Pellucidar of the Radio Flyers and Radio Gun-Runners is in the same universe as Farley's Venus. I suppose that means that if his Venus is the same planet as Burroughs Venus, then his inner world must be in the same universe as Burroughs Pellucidar stories. But the point is that the Radio Gun-Runners is clearly a second hollow world story or novel from Farley, and almost certainly set in the same continuity as the Radio Flyers themselves. Beyond that, however, I can say nothing more about it. Indeed, there's even an interesting side note. There is at least one substantial pastiche on the web which has Farley's and Burroughs Pellucidarean characters meeting up and having an adventure together. I believe its called Vikings in Pellucidar . You'll recall that when we looked at Mars, these sorts of crossovers were pretty frequent, for Venus, they're nonexistent. A crossover for Pellucidar. Interesting. All right, so let's take a look at Farley's inner world. It's peopled by Vikings who've sailed in from Greenland, and by Skraelings, stone age savages who have given rise to the Inuit of the outer world. The inner world is a tropical paradise with a twenty-four hour sun at its center. Among the creatures mentioned are glyptodonts, giant sloths, woolly mammoths, eohippus, a seven foot tall gorilla-man and pterodactyls. The biggest of the pterodactyls is robust enough to carry a human away. Let's just give it up. This is Pellucidar, no ifs ands or buts, and we all know it. Farley knows it and Burroughs knew it. There's actually a reference which can be found in Erbzine 0987: THE SCIENCE FICTION FAN (1939 science fiction fanzine) vol. 4 #4, whole number 39. 5 ½ x 8 ½, 20 pages. Ditto printing. Article by Ralph Milne Farley on how he and Edgar Rice Burroughs read the same book and were each inspired to write different stories by it (in Farley's case The Radio Flyers). He even quotes a letter he had received from ERB. That book was undoubtedly Marshall B. Gardner's privately published manuscript, Journey to the Earth's Interior , printed originally in 1913 and reprinted expanded to 456 pages only a few years later. According to Gardner, the Earth was hollow, it was a shell 800 miles thick, with 1400 mile openings at each pole. Inside, there was a sun, 600 miles in diameter, giving life and heat perpetually to the inner world. Other planets were built the same way, the Martian ice caps were evidence that Mars was hollow. By this time, of course, there had actually been several expeditions to the North Pole and the South Pole. Gardner worked hard to argue that they never actually made it. Apart from that, he was pretty much making the same sorts of arguments as his predecessors. Gardner's book, of course, allows Farley to offer up a fig leaf of deniability. Apparently, he and Burroughs corresponded over this and Farley maintained that he took his inspiration from the same book that Burroughs did, probably Gardner's work of pseudoscience, written in 1913 and revised, expanded and reprinted in 1926. Well, okay, fair enough. Except that At the Earth's Core was published in 1914-15 and Pellucidar came out around a year later. Tanar of Pellucidar and Tarzan at the Earth's Core appeared in magazines in 1928-1929. The Radio Flyers appears in 1929. The Radio Gun Runners appears subsequently. This is after Burroughs has chugged out no less than four Pellucidar novels, including one which crosses over with his most famous creation, Tarzan. Farley is a huge fan of Burroughs, and his Radio series is pretty much a homage to Burroughs Martian series, and he was also a friend of Burroughs. So, are we expected to believe that Farley never read the Pellucidar novels, wasn't inspired by them? Come on, who is kidding who here? No, instead he claims he took his inspiration from Gardner. Yeah, and Otis Adelbert Kline's Jan and Tam took nothing from Tarzan, and Kline's Martian novels have no resemblance to Barsoom. Did Farley take nothing from Gardner's book? Well, I'll put it this way. What I think he took from Gardner was the license. Gardner gave him a kind of plausible deniability, grounds to say he wasn't working in Burroughs world, but merely taking his inspiration from the same source, producing a similar work. Yeah, right. Whatever. I'm pretty sure that Farley didn't get his gorilla-man and pterodactyls from Gardner, no way, no how. There's a certain justification to Farley. Remember that basically, all these writers were working in shared worlds, worlds that were grounded in the reality of the time, in the social narratives and concepts of the time known to readers as well as writers. The wild west was a shared world, the mysterious Orient was a shared world, darkest Africa, old dying Mars and young thriving Venus. These were all places that existed as shared landscapes irrespective of their realities. Africa wasn't dark, the West had only been briefly wild, Mars and Venus would turn out to be quite unlike our concepts. But each of these places meant something to people, they had a look, a feel, a sort of landscape and history associated with each. Pellucidar, or Gardner's Hollow Earth, was another one of these shared worlds. It was a minor one, but there was an evolved vision, a narrative, a sort of consensus landscape there. So Farley had a fig leaf to hide behind. Of course, the trouble is that Burroughs vision became more famous and more pervasive than Gardner's ever was. Even more than Burroughs Barsoom shaped the visions of Mars, Burroughs Pellucidar defined and described the inner world. Look, it's been a long time, everyone is dead, the copyrights have expired, so we may as well just fess up and be honest about the whole thing. The Radio Flyers and Radio Gun- Runners are just a couple of Pellucidar novels from a contemporary and peer of Burroughs. Let's just call it what it is. Argosy All-Story Weekly: June 28, 1924 The Radio Beasts. Argosy All-Story Weekly: March 21, 1925 The Radio Planet. Argosy All-Story Weekly: June 26, 1926 The Radio Flyers. Argosy: 1929 The Radio Gun-Runners Argosy: 1930 The Radio Menace. Argosy: June 7, 1930 Caves of the Ocean. Argosy January 17, 1931 (4 parts) The Radio Pirates. Argosy August 1, 1931 The Danger from the Deep. Astounding August 1931 The Radio War. Argosy July 2, 1932 (5 parts) The Golden City. Argosy May 13, 1933 The Immortals. Argosy November 17, 1934 (6 parts) Eric of Aztalan. Golden Fleece January 1939 Liquid Life. Thrilling Wonder Stories October 1936 Pe-Ra, Daughter of the Sun. Amazing July 1939 The Hidden Universe. Amazing Nov, December 1939 The Living Mist. Amazing August 1940 City of Lost Souls (with Al P. Nelson) Fantastic Adventures July 1941 The Immortality of Alan Whidden. Amazing February 1942 Holy City of Mars (with Al P. Nelson) Fantastic Adventures May 1942 The Radio Minds of Mars Part 1 & 2. Spaceway Science Fiction 1955 & 1969. Amazing Detective Tales: June 1930 The Vanishing Man. Amazing Detective Tales August 1930 Another Dracula? Weird Tales September October 1930 The Man from Ouija Land. Mind Magic July & Aug 1931 The Time-Traveler. Weird Tales August 1931 The Astral Menace. Mind Magic September 1931 Dangerous Love. Mind Magic The Hieroglyphics. My Self November 1931 Abductor Minimi Digit. Weird Tales January 1932 The Degravitator. Amazing March 1932 The Whistle. Weird Tales November 1932 Spilling the Atoms. Science Fiction Digest October 33 The "Rexme!" Fantasy Magazine July 1935 Annabel Reeves. Marvel Tales Summer 1935 The Man Who Met Himself. 1935 Smothered Seas (with Stanley G. Weinbaum) Astounding Jan 1936 Backward Time-Traveling Impossible (article) Fantasy Mag Jan 1936 Treadmill of Doom. Spicy Mystery April 1936 Black Light. Astounding August 1936 Vallisneria Madness. Weird Tales May 1937 A Month a Minute. Thrilling Wonder Stories December 1937 The House of Ecstasy. Amazing June 1938 Time for Sale. Amazing August 1938 Horror's Head (as Lieut. John Pease) Amazing Oct 1938 Beauty and the Beast. Science Adventure Stories #1 1938 Major McCrary's Vision. Strange Stories February 1939 The Stratosphere Menace. Weird Tales March 1939 The Bottomless Pool. Strange Stories April 1939 The Radio Man Returns. Amazing June 1939 Mystery of the Missing Magnate. Weird Tales October 1939 Conquest of the Impossible (article) Startling Stories Nov 1939 Watch Your G's (article) Stardust March 1940 The Time-Wise Guy. Amazing May 1940 Rescue Into the Past. Amazing October 1940 Test Tube Twin. Weird Tales January 1941 The Time Capsule. Astonishing Stories April 1941 I Killed Hitler. Weird Tales July 1941 Wings of Death. Weird Tales September 1943 The Man Who Lived Backwards. Fantasy Book #7 1950 Stranded in Time. The Omnibus of Time, FPCI: Los Angeles, 1950 Revenge of the Great White Lodge. Omnibus of Time, FPCI, 1950 Man Who Could Turn Back the Clock. Omnibus of Time, FPCI, 50 After Math. BILL HILLMAN Visit our thousands of other sites at: BILL and SUE-ON HILLMAN ECLECTIC STUDIO ERB Text, ERB Images and Tarzan® are ©Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.- All Rights Reserved. All Original Work ©1996-2008/2010/2018 by Bill Hillman and/or Contributing Authors/Owners No part of this web site may be reproduced without permission from the respective owners.