Top 10 Best Names from Edgar Rice Burroughs

One of the great talents possessed by the sci-fi-adventure novelist Edgar Rice Burroughs was the effortless creation of elegant, illustrative, poetic – in all ways perfect – names for his fantastic characters, places, creatures.

Here are ten of his best:

  1. Banth
  2. Barsoom
  3. Dejah Thoris
  4. Kerchak
  5. Mahar
  6. Pellucidar
  7. Phutra
  8. Sabor
  9. Tars Tarkas
  10. Tarzan

Read ’em & weep, GEORGE LUCAS! Who’s your daddy, beeeeeaaatchhhh ?!!!


Pellucidar book cover