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Carter rescues Dejah Thoris from the green men in a bid to return her to her people. The red Martians inhabit a loose network of city-states and control the desert planet's canals, along which its agriculture is concentrated. The Tharks subsequently capture Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium, a member of the humanoid red Martian race. Thanks to his strength and martial prowess, Carter rises to a high position in the tribe and earns the respect and eventually the friendship of Tars Tarkas, one of the Thark chiefs. He soon falls in with a nomadic tribe of Green Martians, or Tharks, as the planet's warlike, six-limbed, green-skinned inhabitants are known. Carter finds that he has great strength and superhuman agility in this new environment as a result of its lesser gravity and lower atmospheric pressure. While attempting to evade pursuit by hiding in a sacred cave, he is mysteriously transported to Mars, called 'Barsoom' by its inhabitants.

Having struck a rich vein of gold, he runs afoul of the Apaches. John Carter, a Confederate veteran of the American Civil War, goes prospecting in Arizona immediately after the war's end.

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The series was also inspirational for many scientists in the fields of space exploration and the search for extraterrestrial life, including Carl Sagan, who read A Princess of Mars when he was a child. The Barsoom series inspired a number of well-known 20th century science fiction writers, including Jack Vance, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. This vision of Mars was based on the work of the astronomer Percival Lowell, whose ideas were widely popularized in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The story is set on Mars, imagined as a dying planet with a harsh desert environment. Its early chapters also contain elements of the Western. It is also a seminal instance of the planetary romance, a sub-genre of science fantasy that became highly popular in the decades following its publication.

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Full of swordplay and daring feats, the novel is considered a classic example of 20th century pulp fiction. My rating: ★★☆☆☆ (2 out of 5 stars) - It was okay.Ī Princess of Mars (1917) is a science fantasy novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first of his Barsoom series. With only his next book, 'Tarzan of the Apes' (you've probably heard of it), he would make vast improvements in plotting and characterization. In a few more novels, he would trim his style down even further and revolutionize popular literature. Also, some of the stodgy poeticisms of earlier fantasy and sci-fi haven't quite left his pen. Outrageous, ridiculous, and oh so much fun!īurroughs has some difficulty structuring this first novel, and the events do not fit together as well as his later works. green aliens, and ferocious four-armed white apes. The result: a fastasia of plutonium guns, sword fighting, flying platforms, 15 ft. But Burroughs essentially took an old-fashioned Knight-errant story and tossed it onto Mars.

Welles wrote allegorical and social-commentary science-fiction, and Verne concentrated on scientific prediction.

'A Princess of Mars' is imaginative, far exceeding anything else written in science-fiction before it. But he got up to speed extremely quickly. This is Edgar Rice Burroughs's first novel, and he obviously had some growing pains to go through first.

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