Obviously, this is an extraordinarily influential sic-fi novel. The idea of John Carter having amazing strength because of the different gravities of Earth and Mars allows an everyman Virginian Civil Warrior to become a singular Martian Hercules. Burroughs is able to explore ideas of eugenics and race, war and peace, love and family, all layered into a fast-paced, violent Martian travelogue. It was absolute pulp (violent fights, naked women), but like all of Edgar Rice Burroughs' novels it can't be contained by any simple labels. I can only imagine reading this cowboy in space novel when it was first published. Everyman Civil Warrior = Martian HerculesĮdgar Rice Burrough's popular John Carter/Barsoom novels started with 'A Princess of Mars'.
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