Her short fiction includes stories in The Ultimate Silver Surfer and Magic in the Mirrorstone. She is the author of six science fiction novels, two of which were Philip K. Later, she read the adventures of John Carter aloud to her young son. He lives in western Massachusetts, where he worked for decades as a Sign Language Interpreter for the Deaf.Īnn Tonsor Zeddies first encountered the ERB Universe as a child, when an old professor who lived down the street allowed her to choose a volume from his shelves. He has also written several novelizations, including Hook, based on the Steven Spielberg film, and Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, based on the animated movie. Dick Award finalist The Alchemists, as well as the novels The Pathfinders, A Key for the Nonesuch, and Return of the Breakneck Boys. Geary Gravel is the author of the Philip K. Thrust into an uneasy alliance with a renegade Va-gas warrior and her young son, Victory must turn all her wits and skills toward survival-for she and her companions have been marked for death by the brutal the Kalkar soldiers under the reign of the vile tyrant Orthis. Ensnared in an insidious conspiracy that reaches from his early years on the Red Planet back into the dim recesses of the ancient past, John Carter and his trusted longsword are now all that stand in the way of a dread menace that threatens the existence of all life on Barsoom.īonus Novelette: “Victory Harben: Stormwinds of Va-nah”Ĭontinuing her wayward journey upon the currents of spacetime, Victory Harben arrives in the strange hollow interior world of Va-nah from Edgar Rice Burroughs’ classic The Moon Maid. The enigmas only deepen as he embarks upon a journey to the far-flung treasure city of Gathol with his spirited daughter Tara and an unexpected stowaway. VII - A General Barsoomian Glossary: Terms, Titles, Organizations, Games, Weapons, Buildings, Streets, Etc.News of the passing of a dear friend spurs John Carter, Warlord of Mars, to investigate a series of perplexing mysteries in the forbidding icy northern reaches of Barsoom. VI - The Language, Religions, and Customs of Barsoom V Measurements - on Barsoom-Linear, Time, Monetary-and a List of Barsoomian Numbers IV - The Flora and Fauna of Barsoom, Including a Dictionary of Barsoomian Plants and Animals III - A Biography of Barsoom, Including a Dictionary of People, Past and Present, Whose Names Appear in the Barsoomian Sagas II - A Geography of Barsoom, Including a Gazetteer-Index and Hemispheric and Polar Maps of Its Surface I - A Brief History of Pre-Carter Barsoom AND IT'S ALL HERE IN THE ONLY OFFICIAL GUIDE TO BARSOOM He added dauntless heros, beautiful maidens, evil villains and fearful monsters-all the ingredients necessary for a series of thrilling adventures on any world!įeaturing over two dozen illustrations, including maps of the North and South Poles of Barsoom, as well as of the planet's Western and Eastern Hemispheres He gave Mars a history, several phases of civilization and an assortment of religions. he peopled the planet with four different human races and one semihuman. Burroughs created a world of dead seabeds, towering mountains, polar ice caps, underground rivers. the story of life and death, romance and tragedy on the Red Planet is undoubtedly one of the greatest series of all time. Over a period of thirty years, Burroughs wrote ten Martian tales. His account of fifteen-foot green men, eight-legged beasts, oviparous females, and swordswinging red men was an immediate success. When Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) wrote "Dejah Thoris, A Princess of Mars," in 1911, he had no idea that he was opening a new era in the science fiction field. THE OFFICIAL, DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO BARSOOMĬOME TO BARSOOM.
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