They're still arguing when I finish the book.
You're kind of proving my point here."ĭevil: "And warriors with six limbs and green skin and no emotions that go around killing everyone."ĭevil: "Carter gets to ride through the desert on an eight-legged thoat."Īngel: "These books are all horribly sexist as well, by the way."ĭevil: "He fights plant-men that eat people."ĭevil: "He has a telepathic ten-legged dog!"
Plus there are evil pirates that live beside an underground sea and go on the rampage in flying ships."Īngel: "Evil pirates with black skin. The devil says, "Yeah, I know, but he can jump really high. Even before he gets to Mars, the whole shtick with John Carter is that he's a proud soldier of the Confederate Army." The angel says, "No but seriously, I'm not kidding. The devil at my left shoulder says, "Yeah, but it's got loads of cool aliens and sword fights and weird palaces and stuff."
The angel at my right peers over my shoulder to see what I'm reading and says, "Christ on a bike, this shit is really racist." The author of Tarzan of the Apes (1912), Burroughs did not confine himself to a single genre he also wrote medieval romances ( The Outlaw of Torn, 1914), westerns ( The War Chief of the Apaches, 1927), and mainstream novels ( The Girl from Hollywood, 1922). Hailing from a well-to-do family, Burroughs was given an aristocratic education steeped in Latin and Greek, but he was drawn more to an itinerant life of adventure than to a life in the boardroom. By the end of the trilogy the Martians all clamor for a triumphant John Carter to be their king.īorn in Chicago, Illinois, on September 1, 1875, Edgar Rice Burroughs grew to maturity during the height of the Industrial Revolution and witnessed the emergence of the United States as a twentieth-century world power. In the third book, Warlord of Mars, Carter overcomes the forces of evil that would destroy the planet.
The excitement continues in The Gods of Mars when Carter engages the Black Pirates in airborne combat above the dead seas of Mars and leads a revolt to free the Martian races from a religion that thrives on living sacrifices. In the first installment, Carter wins the affections of the "princess of Mars" and the respect of the Martian warlords whom he befriends. Hero John Carter proves himself against deadly foes in The Martian Trilogy. When it rains in a Burroughs novel, the reader gets wet." - Science-fiction writer Jack McDevittĬombining otherworldly adventures with elements of classical myth, fast-paced plots with cliffhanging tension, and imaginative fantasy with vivid prose, Edgar Rice Burroughs' The Martian Tales Trilogy helped define a new literary genre emerging in the early twentieth century that would become known as science fiction.
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