![]() Only one small problem, when he arrives he’s not at a location that he is familiar with. ![]() He then spent years trying to figure how to get back to his Mars and his beloved Dejah Thoris, until one day while standing atop a bluff overlooking the Hudson River, and with outstretched hands he once again finds the strange power that draws him to the wonderful world of Barsoom. When we last left John Carter he had raced to the atmosphere processing plant in the hopes of turning it back on before the entire population of the planet asphyxiated, but just as he succeeded in opening the massive door to the plant he was whisked back to Earth. The first serialized chapter for A Princess of Mars came out in July 1912 and the last chapter of The Warlord of Mars hit stands in March of 1914, all that while also working on Tarzan of the Apes. Lucky for readers at the time Burroughs was a pretty fast writer with no five year wait between installments, I’m looking at you George R.R. Published in 1913 in the pages of All-Story magazine this book is basically the second of what is really an introductory trilogy to the Barsoom series A Princess of Mars and The Gods of Mars both end with cliffhangers and not properly concluded until T he Warlord of Mars was released. The Gods of Mars is considered by most to be the best of the Barsoom series it fleshes out the hero, introduces new races and gives us more history of the planet, all that and it’s also one of the best attacks on organized religion I’ve ever come across. ![]()
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