John Carter of Mars (Barsoom, Book 11)
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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1985
by Del Rey
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| binding
| Mass Market Paperback |
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0345329554
(isbn13: 9780345329554)
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| pages
| 30 |
| date added
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01-21-07
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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 sci-fi, bu...more
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 sci-fi, but it's quite different. More like space opera, but it doesn't take place in space. It's a Virginian, John Carter, an immortal, who is able to pass back and forth between bodies: one on Earth, the other on Mars.
I read these books because they were an inspiration to other authors, such as Conan creator, Robert E, Howard, who paid tribute to Burrough's in his novella, Almuric. And those author, in turn, inspired another generation. At the heart of today's popular sci-fi there are traces of Burroughs and John Carter of Mars.
I was most interested in finding traces of George Lucas's Star Wars in these books; and traces abound. In some cases just a word, a name, a phrase, or a sentence conjures up a moment in Star Wars, and in other cases entire paragraphs connect with a setting from Star Wars....less
bookshelves:
fantasy,
science-fiction
recommends it for:
Masochist 'Barsoom' fans
I discovered Edgar Rice Burroughs as a 9 year old boy, and have thereafter been pretty much fated to a long love affair with his works. I've read all the other 'Barsoom' books at least three times, and some of them so many as to have lost count. But I've only read this 'Barsoom' book once, and have no desire to revisit it. 'John Carter of Mars' is a posthumous collection of some discarded ideals that Edgar Rice Burroughs never published, fully developed, or finished polishing.
This book is...more
I discovered Edgar Rice Burroughs as a 9 year old boy, and have thereafter been pretty much fated to a long love affair with his works. I've read all the other 'Barsoom' books at least three times, and some of them so many as to have lost count. But I've only read this 'Barsoom' book once, and have no desire to revisit it. 'John Carter of Mars' is a posthumous collection of some discarded ideals that Edgar Rice Burroughs never published, fully developed, or finished polishing.
This book is so freakishly bad that even an 10 year old fanatic who had barely noticed the bountiful flaws in any of the other works found the story to be unredeemably badly written and badly concieved. It's that bad.
I don't care how much you love the 'Barsoom' stories, avoid inflicting this one on yourself. Just don't....less
bookshelves:
fantasy
This is the least successful of the Mars books.
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other editions
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John Carter's Chronicles of Mars (Paperback)
isbn: 193445107X
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John Carter of Mars (Barsoom Series #11) (Vintage Ballantine, U2041)
isbn: 0345020413
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John Carter of Mars (Mass Market Paperback)
isbn: 0345235886
