Status Updates From Uma Princesa de Marte

Extremely racist first chapter.

“The scenes depicted for the most part, a fair-skinned, fair-haired people at play.”
Ah, yes. A planet full of Whitey McWhitensteins because why wouldn’t they be? Judas Priest, Burroughs.

“I was more than willing to take my chances among people fashioned after my own mold rather than to remain longer among the hideous and bloodthirsty green men of Mars.” This irony is so interesting to me. The fact that John misses the fact that he just came from fighting in a civil war & he thinks he’s *not* like the Martians?

In one respect at least the Martians are a happy people; they have no lawyers.

[…] in fact everything of value is produced by the females. In time of actual warfare they form a part of the reserves, and when the necessity arises fight with even greater intelligence and ferocity than the men.

FIRST LINE: I am a very old man; how old I do not know.