The original interplanetary swashbuckler:
John Carter is a fighting man of Earth (or is he?) transported suddenly to the surface of a strange planet full of fierce green giants, savage white apes, and noble but warlike humans -- including the one he loves. But can he save her from the doom that threatens to destroy the entire planet?
In a little over 100 years, the Martian tales of Edgar Rice Burroughs have changed the literary world, launching science fiction as a literary category and inspiring generations of young readers to spin their own wildly imaginative tales of distant planets and strange civilizations. This collection, gracefully and unobtrusively annotated, comprises the first three books of the series, which combine as a trilogy to tell the story of Captain Jack Carter's adventures among the many strange civilizations of a dying planet.
About the Author:
Edgar Rice Burroughs came to the craft of fiction writing late in life, after trying his hand at a wide variety of trades and business ventures. By the time he sat down to write his first novel, A Princess of Mars, he had been a high-plains cowboy, a U.S. Cavalry soldier, an industrial gold miner, a railroad policeman, a door-to-door salesman, a store owner and a serial entrepreneur.
Then one day, while working as a wholesale representative for a going-nowhere pencil sharpener maker, Burroughs decided to while away some of the extra time by getting started on a crazy story to submit to one of the pulp fiction magazines. The result was A Princess of Mars -- and the launching of the literary career of one of the most prolific, successful authors in history.
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By day, Finn J.D. John teaches New Media Communications at Oregon State University, with special emphasis on the creation of trans-media storytelling franchises. By night (and by weekend, and by very-early-morning, and by every-other-minute-of-his-free-time) he produces the twice-weekly Pulp-Lit Storytellers Club podcast and the thrice-weekly Offbeat Oregon History podcast. He writes a locally syndicated weekly newspaper column titled “Offbeat Oregon History” (http://offbeatoregon.com), which runs regularly in 16 community newspapers in his home state, and is the author of Wicked Portland: The Wild and Lusty Underworld of a Frontier Seaport Town, published in 2012 by The History Press. Finn is the principal creative at Pulp-Lit Productions, a trans-media publishing house specializing in early-20th-century novels published in serial form in pulp magazines. He can be reached via Twitter at @offbeatoregon or by e-mail at finn@offbeatoregon.com.
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