![]() ![]() Today’s Installment: The Gods of Mars (1913) The series spans 1912 to 1964 with eleven books: nine novels, a book of linked novellas, and a volume collecting two unrelated novellas. ![]() A dry and slowly dying world, the planet known to its inhabitants as “Barsoom” contains four different human civilizations, one non-human one, a scattering of science among swashbuckling, and a plethora of religions, mystery cities, and strange beasts. Our Saga: The adventures of Earthman John Carter, his progeny, and sundry other visitors and natives, on the planet Mars. Also known as: “Edgar Rice Burroughs gets the knack.” For all that is wonderful about A Princess of Mars, it looks like a runt compared to the book I knew was snapping at its heels: The Gods of Mars. Now that I’ve read most of Burroughs’s canon, the flaws of his first book seem more obvious. That book knocked me out when I first read it as a junior high school kid, but it was also the first ERB book I ever picked up. I played a bit rough with A Princess of Mars last week in my first installment of this eleven part mega-series on the Martian novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs. ![]()
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