Garyn G RobertsGaryn G. Roberts (1958- ) first encountered the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs in the 1960s in the Burroughs paperbacks illustrated by Roy G. Krenkel and Frank Frazetta. Eight years old at this time, Roberts was reading Mark Twain's The Adventures of om Sawyer, featuring the tremendous childhood romance and love story of Tom and Becky Thatcher, and one of the most notorious literary villains since Simon LeGree of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin-Injun Joe-and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (tremendous story but certainly NOT a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer-Roberts was crushed), Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, "Victor Appleton's" Tom Swift series (first series 1910-35), "Franklin W. Dixon's" The Hardy Boys, "Jerry West's" The Happy Hollisters series, works of his later personal friend, Ray Bradbury, and Big Little Books, Sunday newspaper comic pages, and comic books. (With a 25-cent-a-week allowance, young Roberts could purchase two 12-cent comics or one 25-cent supersized comic per week). Then, there was the summer of 1970, when at the age eleven he read Hugh Lofting's complete Doctor Dolittle series in first edition hardcovers from the wonderfully gothic and real-life haunted Mabel Tainter Library of Menomonie, Wisconsin. All of this, combined with the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs, fueled his love of reading. Burroughs' The Master Mind of Mars has long been one of several of his all-time favorite ERB titles. Read More Read Less