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Preorder Now: Beyond Thirty™: A World Reborn by Jeffrey J. Mariotte

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Cover art by Daren Bader

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!

Comes with all editions of the book 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

Comes only with the Collector’s Edition

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.

ERB, Inc.’s Cathy Wilbanks and author Joe R. Lansdale with the new Retro Paperback of Tarzan: The Lost Adventure at WonderCon 2026

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. 

 

 

 

 

 

© Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Trademarks Beyond Thirty™, The Lost Continent™, Tarzan®, Tarzan of the Apes®, Jane Porter®, John Carter®, John Carter of Mars®, Dejah Thoris®, Barsoom®, Carson Napier™, Amtor™, Pellucidar®, David Innes™, Caspak™, Va-nah™, Beyond the Farthest Star™, Victory Harben™, Edgar Rice Burroughs™, Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe™, ERB Universe™, and Master of Adventure™ Owned by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.. Associated logos, characters, names, and the distinctive likenesses thereof are trademarks or registered trademarks of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.

 

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Preorder Now—Beyond Thirty™: Restored Edition

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More Than 4,000 Words Restored from Burroughs’ Original Manuscript

Cover art by Sanjulian

Announcing the historic publication of Beyond Thirty: Restored Edition!

In 1915, as debate raged about the aggressions by the Central Powers in Europe, and whether the United States should allow itself to be drawn into the conflict that would eventually be known as World War I, Edgar Rice Burroughs penned a cautionary allegory about the consequences complete isolationism: the novel Beyond Thirty. In this tale, set in the twenty-second century, the nations of North and South America have entirely cut themselves off from contact with Europe, Africa, and Asia following a terrifying global war, drawing a line at 30 degrees East in the Atlantic and 175 degrees West in the Pacific—a barrier that no soul may cross without suffering the utmost punishment and disgrace. No citizen of the futuristic Pan-American Federation knows the fate of the rest of the world in the intervening two hundred years since it was isolated from the Western Hemisphere. But when an accident causes the aero-submarine Coldwater to inadvertently pass beyond the dreaded thirtieth degree to the European continent, its captain and crew find a post-apocalyptic landscape devoid of all signs of civilization, populated by warlike tribes and ferocious wildlife.

Beyond Thirty was first published in the February 1916 issue of All Around Magazine, and was later retitled The Lost Continent when published in paperback by Ace Books in 1963.

But what has remained unknown until now is that more than 4,000 words, including lengthy passages of text, were excised from Edgar Rice Burroughs’ original typescript by the pulp magazine editor—words that have been absent from every edition since the novel’s first publication. Now Beyond Thirty: Restored Edition corrects this egregious error with its historic release, including a new foreword by editor Christopher Paul Carey discussing the context in which the novel was written, Burroughs’ plans for a film adaptation of the tale, and the significance of restored material.

Beyond Thirty: Restored Edition features classic cover art by Sanjulian and a frontispiece by Frank Frazetta, as well as rare and previously unpublished bonus materials from the archives of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., in Tarzana, California.

This important new edition of Beyond Thirty will be available simultaneously in trade paperback, standard hardcover, and a hardcover Collector’s Edition. The book is expected to ship to customers in February 2026.

Preorder your copy of Beyond Thirty: Restored Edition today!

Frontispiece by Frank Frazetta

Beyond Thirty Sequel On the Way!

Beyond Thirty: Restored Edition is being published in anticipation of a brand-new sequel—Beyond Thirty: A World Reborn by award-winning author Jeffrey J. Mariotte (Tarzan and the Forest of Stone)—which will be released in Spring 2026. Beyond Thirty: A World Reborn will feature new cover art and a frontispiece by renowned illustrator Daren Bader. Make sure to sign up for the Official Edgar Rice Burroughs Newsletter and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, X, and YouTube to stay up to date on all our new releases!

A Stone Age Future

The year is 2137. Two hundred years ago, a horrendous war raged across the globe, so dreadful the Americas isolated themselves from their enemies in the Old World. They decreed that none should ever again pass beyond thirty degrees East—upon pain of court martial, ignominy, and even death. But when the aero-submarine Coldwater suffers a catastrophic loss of its buoyancy generators and drifts into the forbidden zone, Lieutenant Jefferson Turck finds himself abandoned on the shores of Old Europe. There he discovers Great Britain has been blasted back to the Stone Age, with warring tribes evading the lions that roam wild amid the ruins of battle-ravaged London. But the spirit of the lost continent’s glory days survives in Victory, the dethroned Queen of England, and only Jefferson Turck stands in the way of the savage world that conspires against her.

Bonus Trading Card—While Supplies Last!

All preorders of Beyond Thirty: Restored Edition placed directly from ERB, Inc.’s online store will come with an exclusive collectible ERB Universe trading card featuring the protagonist of the novel, Jefferson Turck, and artwork by the legendary Frank Frazetta. Collect all of the trading cards by preordering each ERB Universe novel directly from ERBurroughs.com as they release!

Hardcover Limited Collector’s Edition

The hardcover Collector’s Edition features a special ERB Universe bookplate signed by Restored Edition editor Christopher Paul Carey, as well as a facsimile autograph of Edgar Rice Burroughs, and includes an exclusive ERB Universe trading card featuring the book’s cover art by Sanjulian. The Collector’s Edition is limited to only 300 copies.

Preorder Beyond Thirty: Restored Edition today!

EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS: MASTER OF ADVENTURE™

The creator of the immortal characters Tarzan of the Apes® and John Carter of Mars®, Edgar Rice Burroughs is one of the world’s most popular authors. Mr. Burroughs’ timeless tales of heroes and heroines transport readers from the jungles of Africa and the dead sea bottoms of Barsoom® to the miles-high forests of Amtor™ and the savage inner world of Pellucidar®, and even to alien civilizations Beyond the Farthest Star™. Mr. Burroughs’ books are estimated to have sold hundreds of millions of copies, and they have spawned 60 films and 250 television episodes.

ABOUT THE EDITOR

Christopher Paul Carey is Vice President of Publishing and Creative Director of the ERB Universe at Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. He is the author of the ERB Universe novel Victory Harben: Fires of Halos and Swords Against the Moon Men, an authorized sequel to Edgar Rice Burroughs’ classic science fantasy novel The Moon Maid. He has written several comic books set in Mr. Burroughs’ worlds, including Pellucidar: Across Savage Seas, Carson of Venus: The Flames Beyond, and Pathfinder Worldscape: Dejah Thoris. He has edited more than 100 novels, anthologies, and collections for a variety of publishers. Having previously edited Beyond the Farthest Star: Restored Edition, he has had the honor of working with Mr. Burroughs’ original hand-corrected typescript of Beyond Thirty to prepare the text for the present Restored Edition. He lives in Southern California.

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, plus new editions of the Master of Adventure’s classic works!

© Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. Cover art by Sanjulian © 1979 Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Trademarks Beyond Thirty™, The Lost Continent™, Tarzan®, Tarzan of the Apes®, Jane Porter®, John Carter®, John Carter of Mars®, Dejah Thoris®, Barsoom®, Pellucidar®, Carson of Venus®, Carson Napier™, Amtor™, Caspak™, Beyond the Farthest Star™, The Moon Men™, Va-nah™,  Victory Harben™, Edgar Rice Burroughs™, Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe™, ERB Universe™, and Master of Adventure™ Owned by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. Associated logos, characters, names, and the distinctive likenesses thereof are trademarks or registered trademarks of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. Artwork by Frank Frazetta courtesy of Frazetta Girls.

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