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    John Carter of Mars (Library of Wonder): A Princess of Mars, The Gods of Mars, The Warlord of Mars

    By Edgar Rice Burroughs, Mike Ashley and Thomas Yeates

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    Interplanetary perils and swashbuckling adventures on the Red Planet await you in John Carter of Mars, a thrilling trio 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. Lavishly illustrated by comic art celebrity Thomas Yeates, this new edition brings Burroughs’ classic tales vividly to life for modern readers.

    A Princess of Mars (1912) introduces officer John Carter, transported magically from Earth to Mars and plunged immediately into intrigues embroiling the Martian races. In The Gods of Mars (1918) and The Warlord of Mars (1919), Burroughs elaborates his colorful vision of Mars as a home to fantastic fauna, airborne pirates, and battling tribes of nomadic, four-armed green Martian giants and city-dwelling red Martians.

    Already a seasoned swordsman, Carter becomes an even fiercer warrior, unfettered by the planet’s lesser gravity. Thrust into one deadly battle after another as he seeks to woo the beautiful Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium, John Carter of Mars magnificently meets his destiny as science fiction’s first larger-than-life hero.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFall River Press
    Release dateJun 7, 2011
    ISBN9781435137363
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    John Carter of Mars (Library of Wonder): A Princess of Mars, The Gods of Mars, The Warlord of Mars
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    Edgar Rice Burroughs

    Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) is the creator of Tarzan, one of the most popular fictional characters of all time, and John Carter, hero of the Barsoom science fiction series. Burroughs was a prolific author, writing almost 70 books before his death in 1950, and was one of the first authors to popularize a character across multiple media, as he did with Tarzan’s appearance in comic strips, movies, and merchandise. Residing in Hawaii at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941, Burroughs was drawn into the Second World War and became one of the oldest war correspondents at the time. Edgar Rice Burroughs’s popularity continues to be memorialized through the community of Tarzana, California, which is named after the ranch he owned in the area, and through the Burrough crater on Mars, which was named in his honour.

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    • 4/5
      Great stories, although they get a little repetitive. John Carter is so thoroughly badass that it is hard to ever really feel tension at the danger he is in. It's a little like watching an old Arnold Schwarzenegger action flick; no matter how many bullets and explosions there are, you know Arnie will come out on top just fine. Still, rollicking and fast-paced entertainment. A word of warning though about its datedness. Since we now know much better what Mars is like, the ideas of swashbuckling green dudes, vast beds of yellow moss, and vicious white apes might strike you as pretty silly. I suggest that you just take it in stride and think of these stories more as wholesale fantasy, rather than science fiction.A note about this particular Barnes & Noble omnibus volume: the editing is a bit crummy. There are many typos, and you will often find yourself re-reading nonsense sentences before realizing that "fat" should "far" or somesuch.
    • 5/5
      For pure entertainment value, you really can't top Burroughs, especially his John Carter books and the first 4-5 books of the Tarzan series.
    • 3/5
      In the first place, I picked this book up because my book group has some old-line ERB enthusiasts and it seemed like a good idea to revisit these stories on the arrival of the movie. This is not to mention that I had never actually read any Burroughs and wanted to get some sense of what the fuss was all about.So; what to say about a one-time classic? Trying to put myself in the Golden Age of Science Fiction (about twelve years of age), Burroughs’ creative imagination is still quite impressive and he should get points for giving the genre pretty much its first post-holocaust society. There is also the not-insignificant matter of how these stories are still a great piece of wish fulfillment for the disappointed, a state Burroughs inhabited when he started writing; one should never sneer at real conviction.That said, even if one cuts Burroughs every break for writing in 1912 and further considers how the sort of science romance he was writing has a new lease on life in the form of Steam Punk, I still found putting myself in the right frame of mind to read these stories tough. It may simply come down to the matter that John Carter is just too damn virtuous for his own good; a little character development would go a long way.There is also the small matter that the further I got into this the more I started thinking of ways to satirize the proceedings; not a good sign.
    • 4/5
      This is a great omnibus edition of the first 3 John Carter books. These books were the first of the Mars swords-and-guns style fantasy/science fiction and Burroughs is still the best. After 100 years the stories are still interesting and the 'science' still out there. True, these are massively dated now - no computers, no spacechips (wait, we still can't get to Mars...) but there are still flying boats and complex weather machines. ray guhs, etc. What really makes these good though are the characters. Great stuff!
    • 4/5
      Edgar Rice Burroughs' "John Carter of Mars" is one of the quintessential characters of the Pulp Fiction era. With this one character and these three books (contained herein), he took many of the tenants of pulp fiction stories that had come before and created a whole new genre, the "planetary romance." These types of stories are the summation everything that is pulp fiction--amazing characters doing amazing things, all written in an amazingly short amount of time with amazingly little attention to character depth or unique plots. Simply amazing. But truth be told, I had a hard time reading this one cover-to-cover. I had to take a break and read something else between installments. The amazing feats of "derring-do" get a bit repetitive at times, and by the end of the third book you just wish to hell that John Carter would just kill everyone and reclaim his freakin' wife finally and be done with it. But such is pulp. I'm a great fan of the pulp genre, so I gave this one 4 stars. I'm a bit biased, though, so your mileage may vary. The things that make pulp so endearing to me (like an especially awesome B-movie) may also make modern readers cringe. So before buying, definitely test the waters to see if it is something you'd like.
    • 4/5
      This volume is an omnibus, and I will be reviewing each of the three books within it separately. The overall star rating will be for the book as a whole, and not necessarily an average of the individual books within it."A Princess of Mars"I became interested in John Carter after viewing the Disney film, which I really enjoyed despite negative reviews. What I found waiting for me was a fun adventure tale, one that bore a much closer resemblance to the movie that I would have thought. This book definitely shows its age (100+) in terms of social conventions, gender roles, etc. If the reader is willing to get past that, there is a lot to enjoy. Burroughs knows how to tell a story, stringing together a series of cliffhangers that kept me engaged right up to the end.Rating: 4 starsThe Gods of MarsI'm not sure whether Burroughs intended this to be the middle volume of a trilogy, but that is how it reads, the Empire Strikes Back of the series, complete with a cliffhanger ending. Despite being slightly younger, the book felt much older due to its clumsy handling of race. Clumsy for the modern reader, that is; I get the feeling it was quite progressive for its time. The same cannot be said for its gender politics, which seem hopelessly mired in the 19th century. Aside from these considerations, I really enjoyed it. It's pulpy, it's fluffy, it's fun.Rating: 3 stars