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The Dark Heart of Time

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Country
  
United States

Series
  
Tarzan series

Publication date
  
1999

Author
  
Philip José Farmer

Page count
  
278

3.5/5
Goodreads

Language
  
English

Publisher
  
Del Rey

Originally published
  
1999

Preceded by
  
Stations of the Nightmare

Genre
  
Adventure fiction

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Original title
  
Tarzan's Greatest Secret

Followed by
  
Tarzan: The Greystoke Legacy

Similar
  
Philip José Farmer books, Wold Newton books, Adventure fiction books

The Dark Heart of Time: a Tarzan novel is a 1999 work by Philip José Farmer authorized by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. The book was first announced under the title Tarzan's Greatest Secret in 1997.

Set in October 1918—during Tarzan's search for Jane—the novel takes place between Tarzan the Untamed and Tarzan the Terrible.

The novel's antagonist is James D. Stonecraft, an American oil magnate who believes that Tarzan knows the secret of immortality. Stonecraft hires hunters to track and capture Tarzan for the secret, leading to a conflicts at the "City Built by God" and the "Crystal Tree of Time". Through all of the adventure Tarzan is focused on escaping his pursuers so that he may return to his search for his wife.

More Tarzan by Farmer

Best known for his Riverworld series, before The Dark Heart of Time, Philip José Farmer wrote a number of books based to some extent on Tarzan.

  • Time's Last Gift (1972) being a time travel story, the novel is both an unauthorized sequel to the entire Tarzan series, and a prequel to the authorized Khokarsa series.
  • Tarzan Alive: A Definitive Biography of Lord Greystoke (1972/2006)
  • The Adventure of the Peerless Peer (1974) an unauthorized work in which Tarzan meets Sherlock Holmes.
  • Khokarsa series, novels authorized by ERB, Inc. set in Tarzan's Africa 10,000 years ago.
  • Hadon of Ancient Opar (1974)
  • Flight to Opar (1976)
  • The Nine series, an alternative interpretation of the Tarzan mythos, with him and half-brother Doc Savage battling a world-wide conspiracy headed by a group known as The Nine.
  • A Feast Unknown (1969) ISBN 0-87216-586-8
  • Lord of the Trees / The Mad Goblin (dos-a-dos Ace Double, 1970) ISBN 0-441-49252-5
  • The Empire of the Nine (Sphere, 1988) Omnibus reprint of the Ace Double with The Mad Goblin retitled as Keepers of the Secrets.

    • References

    The Dark Heart of Time Wikipedia
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