Lord Tyger is one of Philip Jose Farmer's best works, and is well suited for Titan Book's Grandmaster Series. Lord Tyger is a cool, meta fictional, sociological experiment of sorts by Farmer. A wealthy Tarzan fan named Boygur, who is a huge fan of Tarzan and Edgar Rice Burroughs, gets his hands on a child of noble English stock. He has him raised in an isolated area in Africa. He's raised by two dwarves dressed as apelike creatures. Boygur has helicopters patrolling the area, and everyone involved is under strict orders to stick to the script that ERB outlined in Tarzan of the Apes. Boygur wants to make his own Tarzan. Lord Tyger's name is Ras Tyger. He's actually the third child Boygur has tried this with. Ras had two older brothers that Boygur kidnapped as well, but the first one died, and the second one became an invalid, as he was raised by gorillas, he never learned to speak. That's why Boygur chose to bring in the dwarves, so language could be learned.
It's little touches like that, the attention to detail regarding real world science that makes this one of Farmer's best works. It is a combination for Farmer's own love of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan, and science. A tour de force of sociological speculative fiction.
Farmer is a realist, so Ras Tyger doesn't turn out like Tarzan. He's a true Farmerian hero. He's not nearly as feral as Farmer's Lord Grandrith, but he's certainly not written as a product of civilization. After all, Ras hasn't set one foot in civilization. He's a creature of the jungle.
If you're a fan of ERB, Tarzan, Philip Jose Farmer, or speculative fiction in general, I think you'll really enjoy reading this novel.
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