PulpFest 2012 is very pleased to welcome award-winning science-fiction writer Mike Resnick as its guest of honor. Winner of five Hugo Awards and a Nebula Award, Mike first became involved in science fiction through the work of Edgar Rice Burroughs. With this year being the hundredth anniversary of the start of Burroughs’ writing career, it is fitting that our guest of honor is an author who, early in his career, "wanted nothing more than to write books in the style of Edgar Rice Burroughs."

Mike’s first published work of science fiction, The Forgotten Sea of Mars, was a sequel to Burroughs’ Llana of Gathol. After its release in 1965, Resnick transformed and expanded the story into The Goddess of Ganymede and its sequel Pursuit on Ganymede. Around the same time, Mike was also an associate editor for Camille Cazedessus’ ERB-dom.

Although Mike turned away from the influence of Edgar Rice Burroughs soon after publishing his first three science-fiction novels, he still appreciates the author’s creations. In recent years, he has written introductions to The Tarzan Twins for Wildside Press and for The Land That Time Forgot and Philip Jose Farmer’s Tarzan Alive, both published by Bison Books. Currently, Mike is editing, with Bob Garcia, The Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs, an anthology of mostly original stories inspired by Burroughs and his creations. It will be published by Baen Books and will feature stories by Kevin J. Anderson, Joe Lansdale, Michael Moorcock, and others, as well as the first appearance of Resnick’s "The Forgotten Sea of Mars" in nearly fifty years.

For further information about our special guest, please turn to our guest of honor page under "Programming."