![]() ![]() At the time he wrote it, there was scientific speculation about the potential for life on Mars, and it must have captured his attention because he came up with some wild ideas about the people and cultures who could be inhabiting the red planet. The storytelling itself compared to today’s standards is nothing spectacular, and in fact the ‘science’ is pretty silly, but you have to admire Burroughs’ imagination. ![]() PRINCESS follows the adventures of John Carter, Confederate War veteran, from his mysterious transportation to the planet Mars, to being captured by the green men, to meeting the lovely Princess Dejah Thoris of Helium. While the story is more adventure than science fiction, it was this Mars-based pulp that influenced the men and women who would later fuel the SF renaissance of the mid-Twentieth Century–writers like Ray Bradbury, Carl Sagan, and Arthur C. First written as a serial in 1911, A PRINCESS OF MARS by Edgar Rice Burroughs ( Amazon) was soon after published in novel form in 1917. ![]()
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