Tuesday, April 28, 2026 (Tarzana, California) Announcing a thrilling new tale of treachery and hope on a world shattered by war, set in the continuity of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ classic novel Beyond Thirty!
In 2137, no one had crossed the forbidden barrier established at thirty degrees East in the Atlantic Ocean for two hundred years—a treaty drawn up due to an unthinkably horrendous war that once devastated the globe. But Lieutenant Jefferson Turck was forced to cross beyond thirty in the aero-submarine Coldwater, and there he discovered a lost continent filled with dark secrets and savage tribes fighting for survival.
Now, award-winning author Jeffrey J. Mariotte breathes life back into Burroughs’ intriguing premise in Beyond Thirty: A World Reborn, a brand-new novella set in an alternate future of the Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe, with stunning cover art and a frontispiece by acclaimed fantasy illustrator Daren Bader!
Land of Forgotten Peril
Having returned to futuristic Pan-America from his adventures on the lost continent, Commander Jefferson Turck must now travel back to the savage remains of Great Britain to help Victory, the rightful Queen of England, retake the throne from a brutal usurper. Only then can England set out on the long road to reclaiming its former glory, following centuries of ravaging war that have thrust it back into the stone age. Turck’s first goal is to reunite with Victory’s barbaric tribe and rally its members to support her rule. But when Turck, Victory, and their small band of companions discover the tribe has been attacked by strange warriors bearing weapons more advanced than even those of Pan-America, the mission turns more complicated—and more dangerous—than anyone could have guessed.
Bonus Trading Card—While Supplies Last!
All preorders of Beyond Thirty: A World Reborn placed directly from ERB, Inc.’s online store will come with an exclusive collectible ERB Universe trading card featuring The Mighty Rotenko, the ruthless Keelar warrior from the planet Zandar in the Victory Harben series, with artwork by Alesandro Ranaldi and Arthur Hesli. Collect all of the trading cards by preordering each ERB Universe novel directly from EdgarRiceBurroughs.com!
Hardcover Limited Collector’s Edition
The hardcover Collector’s Edition of Beyond Thirty: A World Reborn features:
- A special ERB Universe bookplate signed by author Jeffrey J. Mariotte and illustrator Daren Bader, as well as a facsimile signature of Edgar Rice Burroughs
- An ERB Universe trading card featuring Daren Bader’s cover art for the book, as well as the bonus trading card featuring The Mighty Rotenko
- A limited print run of only 200 copies
Order your copy of Beyond Thirty: A World Reborn today!
About the Author
Jeffrey J. Mariotte has written more than seventy books, including Tarzan and the Forest of Stone; the Cody Cavanaugh Western novel series; Blood and Gold: The Legend of Joaquin Murrieta (with Peter Murrieta); supernatural thrillers River Runs Red, Missing White Girl, and Cold Black Hearts; horror epic The Slab; acclaimed thrillers Flesh of All Sorrows, Empty Rooms, and The Devil’s Bait; weird western Deadlands: Thunder Moon Rising; and teen horror quartet Year of the Wicked. With his wife and writing partner Marsheila (Marcy) Rockwell, he wrote the science fiction thriller 7 SYKOS and Mafia III: Plain of Jars, the authorized prequel to the hit video game, and numerous shorter works. Three of his novels have won Scribe Awards for Best Original Novel, presented by the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers. He’s also won the Inkpot Award from the San Diego Comic-Con and is a co-winner of the Raven Award from the Mystery Writers of America. He’s been a finalist for the Spur Award from the Western Writers of America, the Peacemaker Award from the Western Fictioneers, the International Horror Guild Award, and the Bram Stoker Award from the Horror Writers Association,
He is the author of many comic books and graphic novels, including the original Western series Desperadoes, some of which have been nominated for Harvey, Glyph, Stoker, and International Horror Guild Awards.
He is a member of the Western Writers of America, Western Fictioneers, International Thriller Writers, Sisters in Crime, the Horror Writers Association, and the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers. He has worked in virtually every aspect of the book and publishing business, as a bookstore manager and owner, VP of Marketing for Image Comics/WildStorm, Senior Editor for DC Comics/WildStorm, and Editor-in-Chief for IDW Publishing. When he’s not writing, reading, or editing something, he’s probably out enjoying the desert landscape around the Arizona home he shares with his family and pets.
Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe™
A century before the term “crossover” became a buzzword in popular culture, Edgar Rice Burroughs created the first expansive, fully cohesive literary universe. Coexisting in this vast cosmos was a pantheon of immortal heroes and heroines—Tarzan of the Apes®, Jane Porter®, John Carter®, Dejah Thoris®, Carson Napier™, and David Innes™ being only the best known among them. In Burroughs’ 80-plus novels, their epic adventures transported them to the strange and exotic worlds of Barsoom®, Amtor™, Pellucidar®, Caspak™, and Va-nah™, as well as the lost civilizations of Earth and even realms Beyond the Farthest Star™. Now the Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe expands in an all-new series of canonical tales written by today’s talented authors!
Shipping Update: Barsoom #6–8 and Trailblazer
We’ve been working hard on Barsoom books #6–8 in the Edgar Rice Burroughs Authorized Library (The Master Mind of Mars, A Fighting Man of Mars, and Swords of Mars) and Trailblazer: The Autobiography of Tarzan’s Creator, but these are complex books to put together, loaded as they are with, collectively, hundreds of pages of material that we have to research, gather, and scan from our Tarzana archives, each image of which needs to be carefully adjusted and then laid out for publication. We want to make sure they are done right. Consequently, we are running a little behind. As it looks now, we are hoping to begin shipping Barsoom #6–8 by the end of June and to ship Trailblazer in July.
Coming Soon: Retro Paperback Edition of Tarzan: The Lost Adventure by Edgar Rice Burroughs and Joe R. Lansdale
We’ve been getting a lot of inquiries about the Retro Paperback Edition of Tarzan: The Lost Adventure by Edgar Rice Burroughs and Joe R. Lansdale that we soft-launched at WonderCon in March to commemorate the 30th anniversary of this novel’s historic publication. This edition’s design emulates the trade dress of the mass-market paperback Tarzan novels published by Ballantine Books in the 1970s and ’80s. We are pleased to announce that we will be making the book available for sale on our website in May 2026. We have a limited number of copies signed by Joe R. Lansdale and Llana Jane Burroughs (ERB’s great-granddaughter, who wrote the foreword) left over from WonderCon that will be available to order on a first-come, first-served basis. Stay tuned!
Please note that a slightly different version of this Retro Paperback was offered by our friends at Pandi Press in their April 2026 Pandi Pack, but the Special Pandi Press Edition is now SOLD OUT.
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