John Carter of Mars™Series
Edgar Rice Burroughs started writing his Martian adventures
in 1911. Even though science claims there is no life on Mars his stories
remain vibrant and timeless tales, because Burroughs knew the appeal and
power of the Martian myth. Writers like Ray Bradbury and scientists like
Carl Sagan have acknowledged that Burroughs' Martian tales were the wellspring
from which their own careers arose.
With his opening trilogy, considered one of the landmarks
of science fiction, Burroughs created a vast and sweeping epic. Captain
John Carter of the Confederate Army is whisked to Mars (Barsoom) and discovers
a dying world of dry ocean beds where giant four-armed barbarians rule,
of crumbling cities home to an advanced but decaying civilization, a world
of strange beasts and savage combat, a world where love, honor and loyalty
become the stuff of adventure.
In eleven books Burroughs takes the reader all around
the Red Planet (and even to Jupiter), while the action and excitement never
let up. Take a trip down the sacred River Iss to the Valley Dor at Barsoom's
south pole, but be warned you might wind up the meal for a flesh-eating
plant man! Visit the city of Manator, where the citizens play chess with
live pieces to the death. Pay your respects to Ras Thavas, the Master Mind
of Mars, who will be happy to transplant your brain into the body of your
choice or maybe into the body of a giant ape. Rescue princesses from impenetrable
fortresses, gallop across the sea bottoms of Barsoom astride your eight-legged
thoat, or race through the thin air of Mars aboard your anti-gravity flier.
A Princess of Mars
Suddenly projected to Mars, Captain John Carter of the Confederate
Army found himself captive of the savage green men of Thark. With him was
Dejah
Thoris, lovely Princess of Helium. And between them and rescue lay a thousand
miles of deadly enemies and unknown dangers. A Princess of Mars was originally
published as "The Moon of Mars" under the pseudonym Norman Bean in All-Story
Magazine as a six-part serial, February through July 1912.
