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The first of the Mars books.
The opening's a bit marred by the conventions of the day -- explaining how Burroughs got his hands on the story. And the transition to Mars is not smooth on either end. (Personally, I would have given him some sort of Martian connections and had him transported by their tech, but Burroughs did not have the advantage of working in a field with many developed tropes.)
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