false 6932865 9781906301682 1 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1254490872m/6932865.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6932865-gilbert-and-edgar-on-mars 243 Eric Brown 197 54 John Carter meets Professor Challenger. What's not to love? 0 2009-10-07T03:11:55-07:00 1412477 90 2009-10-07T03:11:55-07:00 I wish I could read a book like this every day. 0 2009-10-06T23:30:42-07:00 1412213 42 2009-10-06T23:30:42-07:00 4 1 false Wed Oct 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 02 06:41:28 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 06:28:14 -0700 2009
This makes a nice companion piece to the same publisher's Planet of Mystery by Terry Bisson, in which astronauts found themselves on a hallucinatory Burroughsian Venus, but where that was written in a New Wave style, this is much more traditional, and slightly old-fashioned. That makes it no less enjoyable, though. This was one of my favourite books of the year so far.

After all, this is a book which sees John Carter pointing a ray-rifle at Professor Challenger - what's not to love? Burroughs fans may be disappointed by his unflattering characterisation, but it serves the story well. It's perhaps a shame the Jabbak Kathro didn't get a chance to rummage through Chesterton's brain, but that's what sequels are for...]]>