John Carter of Mars

The First Five Novels

By Edgar Rice Burroughs (Author), Brian Stableford (Introduction)

Series Amazing Values

Price$3.99

Pub Date 3/3/2015

ISBN 9781435160279

Format EPUB

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OVERVIEW

Interplanetary perils and swashbuckling adventures on the Red Planet await you in John Carter of Mars, a thrilling series of science fantasy novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Written during the heyday of the pulp fiction era, these bestselling, epic blends of derring-do and dazzling romance permanently remapped the terrain of fantasy and science fiction.

This collection includes the first five novels in the John Carter series:

A Princess of Mars
The Gods of Mars
The Warlords of Mars
Thuvia, Maid of Mars
The Chessmen of Mars

ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S)

Born in Chicago, Illinois, on September 1, 1875, into a well-to-do family, Edgar Rice Burroughs was given an aristocratic private education. But though he tried his hand at several business ventures, he was drawn more to an itinerant life of adventure than to a life in the boardroom.

In 1912, after many failed business ventures, the thirty-five-year-old Burroughs published his first story, “Under the Moons of Mars,” in the pulp magazine All-Story. It was so successful that he turned soon thereafter to writing full-time. He would write nearly 70 novels and numerous short stories before his death in 1950. Although best-known for his immensely popular Tarzan series—he later bought an estate near where the films were shot in Southern California that he named Tarzana—Burroughs didn’t confine himself to a single genre, also writing medieval romances, westerns, and mainstream novels.Among his many science-fiction works, Burroughs wrote eleven novels in the John Carter of Mars series, the titular final installment of which was published fourteen years after his death in 1950.