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    A Princess of Mars: Illustrated

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    From the Publisher: Might it really be possible—in fact and not fancy—to venture with John Carter to the Kingdom of Helium on the planet Mars?  (Carl Sagan)  From the Publisher: "[Burroughs] has created a novel that speaks to the sensibilities and tastes of a modern audience." —-SF  "..My name is John Carter; I am better known as Captain Jack Carter of Virginia. At the close of the Civil War I found myself possessed of several hundred thousand dollars (Confederate) and a captain's commission in the cavalry arm of an army which no longer existed; the servant of a state which had vanished with the hopes of the South. Masterless, penniless, and with my only means of livelihood, fighting, gone, I determined to work my way to the southwest and attempt to retrieve my fallen fortunes in a search for gold. ."  A Princess of Mars (1917) is a science fantasy novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first of his Barsoom series.  In submitting Captain Carter's strange manuscript to you in book form, I believe that a few words relative to this remarkable personality will be of interest.  My first recollection of Captain Carter is of the few months he spent at my father's home in Virginia, just prior to the opening of the civil war. I was then a child of but five years, yet I well remember the tall, dark, smooth-faced, athletic man whom I called Uncle Jack.  He seemed always to be laughing; and he entered into the sports of the children with the same hearty good fellowship he displayed toward those pastimes in which the men and women of his own age indulged; or he would sit for an hour at a time entertaining my old grandmother with stories of his strange, wild life in all parts of the world. We all loved him, and our slaves fairly worshipped the ground he trod.  He was a splendid specimen of manhood, standing a good two inches over six feet, broad of shoulder and narrow of hip, with the carriage of the trained fighting man. His features were regular and clear cut, his hair black and closely cropped, while his eyes were of a steel gray, reflecting a strong and loyal character, filled with fire and initiative. His manners were perfect, and his courtliness was that of a typical southern gentleman of the highest type.  His horsemanship, especially after hounds, was a marvel and delight even in that country of magnificent horsemen. I have often heard my father caution him against his wild recklessness, but he would only laugh, and say that the tumble that killed him would be from the back of a horse yet unfoaled.   A strange feature about the tomb, where his body still lies, is that the massive door is equipped with a single, huge gold-plated spring lock which can be opened only from the inside.   Yours very sincerely,   Edgar Rice Burroughs.
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    • 4/5
      Ignoring the fact that we've disproved some of the myths of "Mars," actually quite a good read.
    • 4/5
      An easy read, John Carter's perfection is only a mild annoyance. I see why it is pulp, and fantasy and science fiction. It was fun, and that's all. I love Sola the best.
    • 4/5
      The first in the John Carter series, this book is a very quick, entertaining read.Mr. Carter seems to be about thirty, but his true age is unknown. When he hides from his pursuers in the back of a dark cave, he’s suddenly and unexpectedly transported to Mars. This book covers his initial encounters with the strange Martian “humans” and his romance with his true love, the inimitable Dajah Thoris, the princess of the title.Author Burroughs never pretended to be anything but a writer of pulp action stories. Thank goodness he excelled at his chosen field. The John Carter books have had an enormous influence on sci-fi thrillers over the years, and reading them is both entertaining and informative about how the genre started.Not every book has to be deep, meaningful, and important. Sometimes a reader just wants to have fun, and this book provides plenty of that.
    • 2/5
      This book is a science fiction adventure. It is filled with combat and a romance. The story line is interesting but the plausibility of the actions of the characters is poor. This book is appropriate for a young reader as it is without any significant meaning and is merely entertaining.
    • 4/5
      This is the first of Burroughs Mars series, not as well known as Tarzan but fairly good. It is frankly pulp fiction and makes no pretense of serious science: John Carter, a Confederate veteran (but apparently immortal --he has no memory of his birth), while escaping from Indians in the southwest, wishes to be on Mars and is there, a Mars based loosely on Percival Lowell, with drylands stretching between canals on which are ancient cities. The first is captured by the barbaric nomad green martians, giants with four arms, but later wins the love of a red Martian princess, fully human aside from laying eggs. While they are waiting for their first child to hatch, the machine that maintains the Martian atmosphere breaks down; Carter saves it but loses consciousness ad wakes on earth, where he tells his story to a young Burroughs and then vanishes, presumably back to Mars (where the second volume picks up.)
    • 2/5
      True Pulp Fiction! An really hero is transported to Mars, expedience many adventures, wins the heart ofa Martian Princess and generally saves the day! Good fun.
    • 4/5
      Wonderful pulpy goodness.
    • 4/5
      Fun space Opera. Burroughs knows how to keep a story moving. He is one of the early masters of the Space Opera. Great imagination.
    • 3/5
      For years I intended to read this novel. I heard over and over again how it's classic scifi, influencer of many books, movies, tv shows we love today. Published in 1917, it's the great-granddaddy of them all.

      Then Disney happened. 'John Carter of Mars' is Disney's film version of 'A Princess of Mars'. Dunno why they didn't call the movie by the book's title, unless it goes along with the company trying to get away from anything 'Princess' (thus titles like 'Tangled,' 'Brave,' and 'Frozen'). At first, I was happy a movie was being made of the book. I thought, maybe, it'd give me a taste of the novel, so I'd know what to expect. But then, I'll be honest, I didn't go see the movie because the reviews were so bad. Everyone seemed to be so mad at Disney for created something so stupid. I kept wondering if Disney didn't do the book justice or the reviewers hated the book, too. No one ever said. No one mentioned that it was classic scifi novel in the public domain...and although Disney lost money, it wasn't like it was an original Disney work they poured their hearts out over.

      Curious how bad the movie could be, the husband and I watched it. It's NOT that bad. I've endured much worse blockbusters. The pacing in the beginning is slow, but ultimately the film improves later on. Dunno if the pacing/bad editing in the beginning turned people away, or if they didn't like the mix of scifi and fantasy. In today's world, scifi can be very scientific. If the theories in the story aren't kinda maybe possible, people will pick them apart (Scientists on NPR covering Jurassic World for example). We want our scifi to be almost real.

      John Carter is a Civil War veteran who finds a cave that takes him to Mars. It's not extremely scientific, it's more magical. He suddenly finds that he also has super human powers on Mars. He befriends a local tribe of green people, gets caught up in politics (that are about as interesting as the Star Wars prequels), and falls in love with a captive humanoid princess. Like any super hero, he saves the day and gets the girl. The book ends on a sad note, but sets the story up for its many sequels.

      The story is told by John Carter and really shows its age. Indians are out to get you old-West-style. John Carter is a Confederate gentleman who never forgets his genteel manners no matter what's happening to him. Everyone is either super good or bad. The princess is objectified and needs saving. John Carter suddenly notices that she's humanoid and is instantly in love with her. He turns kinda "Me Tarzan, You Jane" on her. So, it doesn't stand the test of time. When reading (or watching the movie) you've really got to consider the time frame it was published. It's very imaginative for its time. The book rightly belongs on the shelf with other old timers like Tarzan (also by Burroughs) and The Prisoner of Zenda, Still not a bad read if you're a scifi nerd, into classics, or both.
    • 3/5
      John Carter dies on earth and awakens on Mars.
    • 1/5
      Really??? head-->desk
    • 3/5
      A fast-paced book, narrated in a leisurely fashion. Not as imaginative as "Tarzan of the Apes", written a year later. Some things were known about Mars at the time this book was written and these find there way into the narrative, things like the ice caps and Mars's rapidly moving inner moon, Phobos. Enjoyable, and far better than the movie. However, as the love story unfolds and the fighting goes on John Carter becomes completely unscrupulous and doesn't even seem to notice. John Carter explicitly prizes the more tender emotions, and his more gentle actions always have good consequences, a positive, but unrealistic message.Like Rafael Sabatini, Burroughs derived a lot of his leisurely style from Sir Walter Scott. Unlike Scott he eschewed all humour and dialect.That John Carter can interbreed with a member of a species that lays eggs is hilarious.The narration was in a quite pleasant southern accent, appropriate since John Carter is a former Confederate officer.The cover images vary wildly. Some are pretty awful "Conan the Barbarian" style beefcake, but the "Vox Libris" cover is excellent.
    • 3/5
      Imaginative to say the least, it's easy to see how this tale became the precursor for the space operas and space Westerns we all know and love today.
    • 5/5
      The first three books of the series are in fact a complete trilogy. One that has endured for a century, and rightfully so, but if action and adventure novels are common enough, what is the lasting appeal of these books? Simple: Honour & loyalty. Essential qualities of character. I am finding in the home brood that the internet generation are missing, and lacking, these seeds. Books like these, themes like these, have shaped me. Read them. Put them into your kid's hands and no, they won't die if the iPod goes away for hours each day, forcing them to grow roots into self evaluation, meaning, and notions about character, loyalty, service.
      Okay and it's fun. Hot chicks, swords, wild landscapes and wilder humanoids. You gotta love it.
    • 4/5
      Each of Burrough's Barsoom books have weak and strong points. Although I may have enjoyed some more than others, aspects of them dragged them down. Some have worse editorial work. Some may be better written technically, but are formulaic. They are all straightforward adventure books. The superman hero John Carter uses brain and brawn to fight and win a series of increasingly difficult battles in order to achieve his goal. In this book (as in the first 3) his goal is to save his beloved, the beautiful Princess Deja Thoris. This series is the basis behind much of modern storytelling - the influences on Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon are clear, as well as the early comic book superheroes and most modern summer blockbusters. James Bond, Star Wars, Indiana Jones and other films certainly follow this style.The story is relentlessly forward moving, like the rail shooter video games or a roller coaster. There is only one way the story can go and the reader is propelled along it. Each book introduces new exotic locales, new exotically beautiful damsels, new horrific beasts. His characters are noble or villains.On the science fiction front, Burroughs tries to maintain a rationale behind Carter's superman abilities as well as the world environment he is thrust into. Whether the rationale holds to deeper scrutiny is irrelevant, it was a good enough reason for contemporary audiences and provided a framework to build a story on. There are fantastic elements, such as telepathic control of animals and the mysterious way John Carter is transported between worlds. There are flying battleships and mounted warriors, projectile weapons that can shoot accurately for miles and swords, everyone is hatched out an egg but can still cross-breed with an Earthling, roving hordes living in the many dead cities and technological cities with never-dying light bulbs. Each book in the series has its strengths and weaknesses. Being the first book, the devices do not get old, but his world and style isn't quite developed. However, the setting is new and novel enough to be exciting. The first 3 are from the first person of John Carter as he tries to save Deja Thoris from increasingly powerful enemies and situations. The next few books have the same exact style with new locales and people. The first book introduces Green and Red men. The next introduces the White and the Black, the third, the Yellow man. He runs out of colors and then proceeds to telepaths who can will thoughts into material manifestations (or do they...?). Then spider heads and headless bodies in a rough symbiosis and cities filled with beautiful dead people by skilled taxidermists. This series is possibly the first example where the first book is introductory and stands on its own, but the second ends in a cliffhanger and the third resolves it so that hero gets his girl and is king of everything. Think Star Wars 4/5/6, the Matrix, Pirates/ Caribbean series. In the fourth book on, Burroughs abandons his first person viewpoint and the story moves beyond John Carter. Characters and settings introduced earlier get fleshed out and new ones introduced. I think these stories are a bit more complex than the first three and enjoyed them more. Unfortunately, my copies of Thuvia, Maid of Mars and the Chessmen of Mars had spelling errors, typos, swapped names, disjointed sentences where words and phrases were completely gone,... I should check other editions to see if this is common or just my book. The first three were editorially clean. The editions for this series that I chose in LibraryThing DO NOT reflect the actual editions I have. I broke the set out from the single volume compendium I have to more accurately track my reading. Mine is the single volume compendium John Carter of Mars from Fall River Press 978-1-4351-4991-5
    • 5/5
      Edgar Rice Burroughs' 1912 novel "A Princess of Mars" is a brilliant, wonderful piece of literature. That it is still just as good one hundred years after it was written is testament to just how good a writer Burroughs was. What would it be like to be transported to another planet without a spaceship, guns, or even clothes? What would it be like to be plopped all alone in an alien culture with nothing to rely on but one's wits, strength, agility, courage, and ethics? What would that world be like if it was dried up planet with mere canals to provide water and its mighty seas were dried up? What if that planet had an ancient culture that had vanished with the drying up of the seas and all that remained were dead seas and hordes of savages roaming the dead sea bottoms? What if these savages did not even give birth as we do but laid eggs and placed them in incubators for five long years? These are the questions Burrough must have asked before writing this terrific novel that spawned generation after generation of science fiction novels.

      At root, if you put aside the alien planet, it is a story of a mighty swordsman and a beautiful princess and the swordsman, blundering though he may be in the ways of women, has sworn to save this damsel in distress though a million swords be arrayed against him. It is a story of a gallant Virginia gentleman and his love story to rescue over and over again his princess, Dejah Thoris. It is at times chivalry like the knights of the round table or the three musketeers.

      Burroughs, back in 1912, gave his swordfighting warriors of Mars a few technological details, such as fliers that hovered above the seabeds and ray guns, but they preferred to fight with swords and fists and wear little but harnesses to hold their weapons. The people of Burroughs' Mars had an atmospheric plant that kept the thin atmosphere breathable and navigation systems on their fliers, but they were, even the red martians, in numerous little city-states forever at war with each other.
      Burroughs wrote this story of chivalry and derring-do for a readership that craved adventure, but he gave them far more than just adventure. He created mighty kingdoms and history and a whole culture that is just stupendous. No one before or since has created a sword and planet story quite as good as Burroughs did and this the first of the eleven Martian books was the best of all.
    • 3/5
      Rating: 3.5/5 stars.

      This is a classic pulp science-fiction/fantasy novel, with all that that title entails. So, there's colonialism (albeit turned kind of on its head), sexism (with an appropriately beautiful damsel in distress), and a hero who can practically accomplish anything. Very little goes wrong for our illustrious hero (aside from the events that land him on Mars to begin with and a few others).

      The writing isn't spectacular, but it's serviceable. While ostensibly a science-fiction story due to its setting, this story has more to do with its contemporaries of Kull/Conan than the science-fiction of say E.E. "Doc" Smith's Lensman series.

      I'd probably rate this higher if it weren't for the last chapter which lessened my enjoyment of the rest of the book for me. It seems to be there just to set up a sequel while pulling the rug out from the rest of the book. I
      don't mind the set up for a sequel, it's the undermining of the book I disliked.

      The narration by Scott Brick isn't outstanding, but it's not bad. He's certainly done a better job for other books.
    • 3/5
      Nothing like the movie. The movie was so wrong on so many levels. It made me angry.

      The book was alright on its own, and Disney just destroyed it. It makes me angry just thinking about it.

      I like knowing all the extra stuff they always cut out of movies. It was nice to know what actually happened.

      Although him just wishing to go to Mars was a little stupid. That part in the movie was a better. But only that part.

      It was hard for me to get through it. It took a little while. But I think that is the writing style. The novel was written a long time ago.

      I do want to read the rest of the series. I think there is potential and I want to know what is going to happen.
    • 5/5
      A unique beginning to a very unique series. The impact ERB had on science fiction is unmistakable. His ideas have stood the test of time, and his characters are memorable.
    • 3/5
      Too romantic for my tastes (beyond the fact that every cover I've seen of this is misogynistic in the extreme), but well-written on the whole.
    • 3/5
      Definitely pulp fiction, but more fun than I expected.

      I wonder what it would have been like reading this before we had sent spacecraft to Mars, and before we had nice pictures of Martian surfaces.

      I can't help but wonder if Burroughs meant the reader to believe Earthlings are descended from the red men of Mars--the planet is collapsing, the ancient humanoid residents of the huge now-dead cities created the atmosphere maker.
    • 2/5
      Not very good. I'll give the author a break because it was his first novel, but it lacked the quirky charm of the Tarzan books that I've read. I'll probably read the next in the series and see if I like it any better.
    • 2/5
      Pulpy and terribly dated.
    • 3/5
      A fun and refreshing blast from the past, there were still some things about it that were far too fantastical even for me. It's hard to explain. Honestly, I'm not sure I'll write a full review of this one, since so many people have already expressed their views. :)
    • 5/5
      I only hope the film can live up to it. Classic fantasy fiction. Never a dull moment. Loved it.
    • 3/5
      A little over the top, but it's fun, and it's the original of its kind.
    • 1/5
      I gave it the old college try, I really did. It was just so godawful..
    • 3/5
      Who did I see describing this as "old school, pulpy goodness"? I think that works pretty well. I'm not sure how I'm going to relate this to Herland in my SF/F essay, but I'm thinking on it... Obviously there's a ton of colonial, North American stuff going on here, wherein a white man from Earth comes and suspiciously saves a red-skinned princess and reforms the Martian societies to good American values...But it's still sort of fun, and not a chore to read: the prose is straight-forward and not too crammed with infodumps, and I did get sort of fond of one or two characters, mostly Sola (perhaps because she was "civilised" and relateable before the Great White Man's intervention). No real surprises here, and I don't think I'll be in a hurry to read other Barsoom books, but it's enjoyable in its way.
    • 3/5
      Pulp fiction at its apex. A western in spaceship clothing.
    • 4/5
      A completely new World. John Carter finds himself on Mars, locally called Barsoom, and meets many dangers and adventures there.
      It reads like the Tarzan books. If you like them, you'll like this one too. It is no high literature, but a good read.