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Today is the anniversary of the birth of one of my favorite writers of all time: Edgar Rice Borroughs. HE was the creator of several characters like Tarzan and John Carter, the Warlord of Mars. His writing was crisp, descriptive and well paced. Some of the concepts are very dated but when placed in context make sense. He did seem to have a racist view in some of the books, describing the blacks and arabs of Africa as slow witted and less advanced than the white man and as savages, but that was a common conception back in the early 1900s. His ideas of life on Mars were fun and imaginative with creatures born from plants, huge insectoid warriors and of course the most beautiful women in the universe.

Happy birthday ERB.