# | Year | 1st Read | Title | Author(s) | My Rating | |
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1 | 1912 | 1990 | (1) A Princess of Mars Cover Blurb | Edgar Rice Burroughs | | |
| From epubbooks.com:
A Princess of Mars is the first of eleven thrilling novels that comprise Edgar Rice Burroughs’ most exciting saga, known as The Martian Series. It’s the beginning of an incredible odyssey in which John Carter, a gentleman from Virginia and a Civil War veteran, unexpectedly finds himself on to the red planet, scene of continuing combat among rival tribes. Captured by a band of six-limbed, green-skinned savage giants called Tharks, Carter soon is accorded all the honor of a chieftain after it’s discovered that his muscles, accustomed to Earth’s greater gravity, now give him a decided advantage in strength. And when his captors take as prisoner Dejah Thoris, the lovely human-looking princess of the city of Helium, Carter must call upon every ounce of strength, courage, and ingenuity to rescue her-before Dejah becomes the slave of the depraved Thark leader, Tal Hajus! | |
2 | 1913 | 1990 | (2) The Gods of Mars Cover Blurb | Edgar Rice Burroughs | | |
| From epubbooks.com:
At the end of A PRINCESS OF MARS, the first volume in Burroughs’s Mars series, John Carter managed to get the factory that produces oxygen for Barsoom working again – and collapsed. When he came to, he found himself back on earth, and separated from his beloved Dejah Thoris, the Princess of Helium. It’s a decade later when Carter returns to Barsoom, and he finds himself in that part of the planet that the natives consider to be “heaven” – which is no heaven at all. Carter has to reunite with his friend the fierce green warrior Tars Tarkas, fight with plant men and the great white apes of Barsoom, violate some significant religious taboos, survive the affections of an evil goddess, foment a slave revolt, fight in an arena, and still save Dejah Thoris in the middle of a giant air battle between the red, green, black and white people of Barsoom. High adventure, Martian style. | |
3 | 1913 | 1990 | (3) The Warlord of Mars Cover Blurb | Edgar Rice Burroughs | | |
| From epubbooks.com:
The Warlord of Mars completes the story begun in A Princess of Mars and continued in The Gods of Mars, finally bringing together John Carter and his beloved Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium. Carter last saw his beloved in the Temple of the Sun of the Holy Therns, with the blade of Phaidor descending toward her heart. But the exiled leader of the Therns has rescued his daughter and now wants revenge on Carter for exposing his evil cult. | |
4 | 1916 | 1990 | (4) Thuvia, Maid of Mars Cover Blurb | Edgar Rice Burroughs | | |
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Mars has become divided by love. Not one, but two princes and a Jeddak are vying for the love of Thuvia of Ptarth. When she is mysteriously kidnapped, treachery threatens to throw Barsoom into bloody war. Now Cathoris must follow in the footsteps of his father, John Carter, and overcome phantom armies, dangerous spies and savage beasts as he attempts to save his true love and reunite Mars. The fourth Martian novel from Burroughs. | |
5 | 1922 | 1990 | (5) The Chessmen of Mars Cover Blurb | Edgar Rice Burroughs | | |
| From epubbooks.com:
A freak storm on Mars throws Tara, Princess of Helium and beautiful daughter of John Carter, wildly off course after she embarks on an imprudent flight. Gahan, Jed of Gathol, her new admirer, takes off in pursuit and they soon find themselves in a land of bodies without heads and heads without bodies. In Chessmen of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs once again whirls the reader into an entertaining maelstrom of breakneck action. | |
6 | 1928 | 1990 | (6) The Master Mind of Mars Cover Blurb | Edgar Rice Burroughs | | |
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Former Earthman Ulysses Paxton served Barsoom’s greatest scientist, until his master’s ghoulish trade in living bodies drove him to rebellion. Then, to save the body of the woman he loved, he had to attack mighty Phundahl, and its evil, beautiful ruler. | |
7 | 1931 | 1990 | (7) A Fighting Man of Mars Cover Blurb | Edgar Rice Burroughs | | |
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A flying plane dropped out of the night. It seemed a spectral ship. Silently and quickly it landed behind Sanoma Tora and Sil Vagis. Warriors sprang from its low cabin. Sanoma Tora was seized roughly from behind. With the sudden mysterious disappearance of Sanoma Tora, one of the richest heiresses of Mars, begins this tale of breathless adventure in a strange, fantastic world. A story of reckless love on a far-off planet. | |
8 | 1936 | 1990 | (8) Swords of Mars Cover Blurb | Edgar Rice Burroughs | | |
| From epubbooks.com:
John Carter reprises his role of hero as he vows to bring an end to the Assassins Guild. He ventures in disguise to the city of Zodanga in a fierce attempt to overthrow Ur Jan, the leader of the Assassins. His adventures embroil him in the rivalry of two competing scientist-inventors, and eventually leads him to the nearer Martian moon in order to rescue his kidnapped wife, Dejah Thoris. | |
9 | 1939 | 1990 | (9) Synthetic Men of Mars Cover Blurb | Edgar Rice Burroughs | | |
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John Carter, mighty Warlord of Mars, rides to new and terrifying adventures. Captured by deadly warriors mounted on huge birds he is taken to the ill-omened city of Morbus. There he meets Ras Thavas, evil genius and master surgeon. A man who has succeeded in his nightmare wish of creating life in his own beings - creatures that ultimately rebel and threaten the lives of Ras Thavas, of John Carter and all of Mars | |
10 | 1941 | 1990 | (10) Llana of Gathol Cover Blurb | Edgar Rice Burroughs | | |
| From epubbooks.com:
Llano[sic] of Gathol is a collection of four novellas written in the Martian series of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Llano[sic], the daughter of Gahan of Gothol, is the perfect damsel in distress. The first story, The Ancient Dead (originally The City of Mummies) followed by The Black Pirates of Barsoom, Escape on Mars and finally Invisible Men of Mars. The four books in this series is truly comprised of parody and satire. These books are a good laugh with many futuristic encounters and wild characters. | |
11 | 1964 | 1990 | (11) John Carter of Mars Cover Blurb | Edgar Rice Burroughs | | |
| From epubbooks.com:
Here is the eleventh, and final, book in Edgar Rice Burroughs’ best-selling Martian Series: John Carter is pitted against the infamous Pew Mogel, who has kidnapped his beloved wife, Dejah Thoris. The famous Warlord of Barsoom is lured to a deserted city on the shores of the dead sea of Korvas. But instead of his wife, he finds a huge synthetic giant and hordes of great, white apes into each of which the brain of a man has been grafted. It takes all the skill of Carter’s famous fighting arm and extraordinary agility to preserve his life - and meanwhile the sands of time are running out for Dejah Thoris! | |