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Under the Moons of Mars: New Adventures on Barsoom
by
John Joseph Adams (Goodreads Author) ,
Tamora Pierce (Goodreads Author) , Joe R. Lansdale, Gregory Manchess , David Barr Kirtley (Goodreads Author), Robin Wasserman (Goodreads Author), Misako Rocks! , Theodora Goss (Goodreads Author)
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Celebrate 100 years of John Carter of Mars with this all-new collection of original stories and art!Readers of all ages have read and loved Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Barsoom series since the first book, A Princess of Mars, was published in 1912. Now, in time for the 100th anniversary of that seminal work, comes an anthology of original stories featuring John Carter of Mars in...more
Hardcover, 368 pages
Published
February 7th 2012
by Simon & Schuster
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I am a big fan of the John Carter of Mars series. It's not great writing, but it is fun - a guilty pleasure and an inspiration for later SF writers and themes. This book is 15 short stories by established writers of SFF giving their take on further adventures set in the worlds of Barsoom. It is edited by John Joseph Adams and features writers such as S.M. Stirling, L.E. Modesitt, Jr. and Garth Nix - to name a few. When writing in the style or playground of older writers such as Burroughs some au...more
To anyone with only a passing interest in ERB's Martian Tales, I might recommend reading just A Princess of Mars and then the better stories from this collection.
I've starred the stories that I liked and detailed my thoughts below. Regarding the work as a whole, the editing could have been better (e.g. one story has Olovarian when Orovarian is meant; one story consistently misspells Toonolian as Tonoolian; etc.), but the forewords to each of the stories are excellent, and the gazetteer is probab...more
I'll begin by saying that I went into this anthology with an awareness that it was generally not well received. I knew it was, in essence, a collection of various homages to ERB's Barsoom stories (unauthorized at that), and I knew that some folks had panned it as little more than slipshod fanfiction. So while I smiled to see it on the shelf, and while I did not grudge the cost, I took it home expecting to be let down.
I am happy to report that I was not. Now, as with any anthology, there will be...more
I am happy to report that I was not. Now, as with any anthology, there will be...more
A very mixed bag: some stories I probably won't read again, and some I will. I was surprised that I disliked Peter S. Beagle's contribution, in which Tarzan travels to Mars, but I deeply disagreed with its portrayal of John Carter. Probably my favorite was S.M. Stirling's "The Jasoom Project", an ingenious mash-up of Barsoom, the Moon Maid books, Tarzan, and Pellucidar -- I only wished it were longer!
Although I'm not a big fan of short stories (I rarely make it thru a collection) but as a fan of Edgar Rice Burroughs since 8th grade, I couldn't resist this. I read all the Mars books at least twice in high school and despite the uneven quality of the collection, I'm giving it an extra star for the nostalgia. My favorites in the bunch were those by Valente, Nix, Lansdale, and Maberry.
some really good stories and some that could have been left out. Couple in there that hopefully will become full length novels as they left ya hanging.
Good subject. The grade is an average. Some of the stories should have been drowned at birth; some are as good as the original ERB work.
Lovely nostalgia, would be even better if so much time wasn't name-dropping original characters / plots.
Lots of fun stories, most of which are in the style of Edgar Rice Burroughs. All of them are based on his Barsoom books. I would recommend it for those who enjoy John Carter and his many friends.
Dec 01, 2011
Jonathan Strahan
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3 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
lovers of old-style adventure SF.
Solid anthology of Mars tales, perhaps limited by the palette of its source material.
There were really a lot of good stories by some well-known writers in this collection. For anyone who is a Burroughs fan, or has become a "John Carter of Mars" fan simply by seeing the new film...this is a good read of short stories set in that universe.
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John Joseph Adams—called “the reigning king of the anthology world” by Barnes & Noble.com—is the bestselling editor of many anthologies, such as UNDER THE MOONS OF MARS: NEW ADVENTURES ON BARSOOM, ARMORED, LIGHTSPEED: YEAR ONE, BRAVE NEW WORLDS, WASTELANDS, THE LIVING DEAD, THE LIVING DEAD 2, BY BLOOD WE LIVE, FEDERATIONS, THE IMPROBABLE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, and THE WAY OF THE WIZARD...more
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