The Master Mind of Mars (Barsoom, #6)

by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Master Mind of Mars (Barsoom, #6)
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443 ratings, 3.70 average rating, 11 reviews (more data...)
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December 12th 1985 by Ballantine Books (first published 1927)

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Mass Market Paperback, 160 pages

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Barsoom

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0345334248    (isbn13: 9780345334244)

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Former Earthman Ulysses Paxton served Barsoom's greatest scientist, until his master's ghoulish trade in living bodies drove him to rebellion. Then, t…more


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Dave
Jun 29, 2009
Dave rated it: 4 of 5 stars

Read in July, 2009
“The Master Mind of Mars” by Edgar Rice Burroughs is the sixth book in the Barsoom series. Burroughs moves further away from John Carter by introducing a new hero, Ulysses Paxton, who uses his Martian name Vad Varo for most of the book. Ulysses is a much different hero than John Carter, or for that matter Cathoris or Thuvia from “Thuvia Maid of Mars” or Gahan of Gathol or Tara of Helium from “The Chessmen of Mars”. Ulysses’s connection with John Carter is that when on Earth he r...more
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Robert Saunders
Feb 07, 2008
Robert Saunders rated it: 3 of 5 stars

These were considered "planetary romances" according to one source back when this series from the creator of Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs, was written. This series of about 10 books started in 1912 and culminated around 1948. There's an odd mention of a book in 1964, but the other had been dead for 14 years by then. Plus there are a few shorts published in some pulp periodicals of the 1940s (where many of these stories appeared in years prior).

Today we call this stuff sc...more
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Robb
Jan 17, 2009
Robb rated it: 4 of 5 stars

recommends it for: Kids 13 and under
It's been so long since I've read these books that the details are lost in the mist of time. That said, I'm sure there are variations in the quality of story and prose throughout this series (it's Burroughs, after all), but I choose to remember the series as a whole, and rate it as I remember it through the eyes and mind of the child that read it for the first time...
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Bill Zodanga
Feb 14, 2010
Bill Zodanga rated it: 5 of 5 stars

Please note, this 5 star rating is based on my long ago memories of this book - I may have read it greater than 20 years ago. I recall reading and really liking it, and even kept the book to read again in the future (something I only do with good, or otherwise significant books). The memories of an old man are sometimes faulty so this could really only warrant 3.5 to 4.5 stars, instead of the 5 I gave it. Once I re-read the book I will update this rating/review to more accurately reflect my thou...more
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Nathaniel
Jan 21, 2009
Nathaniel rated it: 3 of 5 stars

Read in July, 1996
I loved all of Burroughs' Mars books. Of course, I read the entire series when I was twelve, so my opinion might be different if I tried to read them now. That said, I do think Burroughs has a real gift for writing intense action and battles.
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Kristy
Oct 22, 2008
Kristy rated it: 4 of 5 stars

Read in November, 2008
I like Burroughs so much that I even like bad Burroughs, but this book (the 6th in the Mars series) is one of his best. Our hero, Ulysses Paxton, a dying soldier on a World War I battlefield, is mysteriously beamed up to Mars where he ends up serving as a laboratory assistant to a weird scientist who has discovered the secret of switching people from one body to another. Paxton falls in love with a beautiful young woman who is unfairly trapped in the old body of a mean empress, and vows to resto...more
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Adrian Colesberry
Apr 11, 2009
Adrian Colesberry rated it: 4 of 5 stars

Read in June, 1981
I loved this whole series. It's pretty sexual and macho and they're all massive page-turners.

Same review for each.
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Jim
Jan 04, 2010
Jim rated it: 5 of 5 stars

Can't get enough of Burroughs.
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Charles
Jul 18, 2008
Charles rated it: 5 of 5 stars

bookshelves: fantasy
This one has some horror elements in it that really make it sing. Sword & Planet as it should be done. However, it doesn't feature John Carter but Ulysses Paxton, an admirer of John Carter who also gets transported to Mars. I didn't think there was any letdown for going with a new character.
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Sally
Jan 25, 2008
Sally rated it: 4 of 5 stars

bookshelves: fantasy
Like the other Mars books, this one includes intreguing concepts with non-stop adventure; some dated attitudes, but holds kids interest with its many cliff hangers.
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Andrew Cole
Aug 01, 2007
Andrew Cole rated it: 3 of 5 stars (review of isbn 0345278399)

Read in August, 2007
Meaty old-school mad science involving brain swapping and the immortal line "I am TUR!" bellowed at a horde of Martian rubes. Take that, religion!
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Mar 15, 2010
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Jason Case
Mar 15, 2010
Jason Case rated it: 5 of 5 stars


Eric
Mar 14, 2010
Eric rated it: 4 of 5 stars


Sasha
Mar 12, 2010
Sasha rated it: 4 of 5 stars


Lisa  Williamson
Mar 12, 2010
Lisa Williamson rated it: 4 of 5 stars


Matt Scanlan
Mar 12, 2010
Matt Scanlan marked it as to-read

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Vincent Darlage
Mar 10, 2010
Vincent Darlage rated it: 4 of 5 stars


Zozo
Mar 10, 2010
Zozo rated it: 3 of 5 stars


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Mar 09, 2010
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