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    John Carter of Mars, Volume 2: Barsoom Novels 4-6

    By Edgar Rice Burroughs

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    Travel to Mars, known by its inhabitants as Barsoom, in books four, five, and six of Edgar Rice Burroughs's classic science fiction series. Featuring Carthoris, John Carter’s son, and Thuvia of Ptarth, Thuvia, Maid of Mars is the thrilling story of the kidnapping and war ignited by Carthoris’s unrequited love for Thuvia, who is engaged to another. In The Chessmen of Mars, Burroughs tells the story of Tara, daughter of John Carter and Dejah Thoris, who, along with her suitor Prince Gahan, is forced into a life-threatening game of Jetan. The Master Mind of Mars introduces the hero Ulysses Paxton, an Earthman sent to Mars by astral projection. Taken in by the eldery Ras Thavas, Ulysses takes on the name Vad Varo and is trained to transplant brains.

    Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Barsoom series helped define the science fiction genre and inspired many well-known sci-fi writers including Ray Bradbury and Arthur C. Clarke. The books have been adapted for film and comic strips.

    HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMar 6, 2012
    ISBN9781443413909
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    John Carter of Mars, Volume 2: Barsoom Novels 4-6
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    Edgar Rice Burroughs

    Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) had various jobs before getting his first fiction published at the age of 37. He established himself with wildly imaginative, swashbuckling romances about Tarzan of the Apes, John Carter of Mars and other heroes, all at large in exotic environments of perpetual adventure. Tarzan was particularly successful, appearing in silent film as early as 1918 and making the author famous. Burroughs wrote science fiction, westerns and historical adventure, all charged with his propulsive prose and often startling inventiveness. Although he claimed he sought only to provide entertainment, his work has been credited as inspirational by many authors and scientists.

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    • 3/5
      Bit of a mixed review for the two stories in this volume. The first, "The Giant of Mars" was a disappointment.

      The second "Skeleton Men of Jupiter" showed more promise, but unfortunately is unfinished.
    • 3/5
      This is the eleventh, and final book featuring John Carter, Prince of Helium, Warlord of Barsoom. It was published after Burrough's death, and consists of two completely unrelated stories.The first, The Giant of Mars, is so different than most of the rest of Burroughs' work that when published, many people believed that it could not have been written by him. It contains numerous elements that don't show up in other Barsoom tales, and the style of writing is very different from anything else Burroughs ever wrote. The best guess appears to be that the tale was written for a proposed illustrated children's book, although it is hard to think of Barsoom, with naked princesses, warriors killing each other in bloody sword fights, and a host of other very pulpy adult elements as a children's book. The Giant of Mars is pretty gruesome at points - rats feeding on dead flesh surrounding by piles of human bones, decapitations, women sexually attacked by apes and so on, so I can only imagine what the illustrations would have been like.The second half of the book, titled The Skeleton Men of Jupiter moves John Carter from Barsoom to Sasoom, or Jupiter after he is kidnapped by the titular skeleton men who plan to invade Barsoom and want to torture him into giving them information to aid their conquest. The story involves the usual elements of a John Carter story - Dejah Thoris is placed in danger, Carter secures her escape, is captured, has to fight in an arena, manages a daring escape, and then seeks out his princess. The story seems to end abruptly, and there is some thought that Burroughs had planned to write a series of stories set on Jupiter, Mars having apparently been thoroughly explored in the previous stories. Unfortunately Burroughs died before he could give us anything besides this one story.It is kind of sad to leave behind John Carter - he is definitely a pulpy character, but he is pulpy in all the good ways - bold, courageous, chivalrous, and more than a little lucky. The story that began in A Princess of Mars is well worth following through the series, even if this final book seems a little disjointed.