The Martian Novels (Annotated)
In 1912, a Confederate veteran named John Carter lay down in an Arizona cave, gazed up at the red planet, and woke on its surface. With that impossible leap, Edgar Rice Burroughs invented a genre. Before Dune, before Star Wars, before Avatar, there was Mars—and the sword-and-planet adventure was born.
This volume gathers all seven of the classic Mars novels Burroughs published between 1912 and 1930, in reading order, complete and unabridged: A Princess of Mars, The Gods of Mars, The Warlord of Mars, Thuvia, Maid of Mars, The Chessmen of Mars, The Master Mind of Mars, and A Fighting Man of Mars.
It is the dying world that launched a century of science fiction: a planet of red deserts and ancient canals, four-armed green warriors, sky-ships and radium guns, princesses and warlords, and an Earthman who can leap a hundred feet in the lighter gravity and out-fight anything that lives. Pure, headlong, gloriously inventive adventure—the books that fired the imaginations of the writers and filmmakers who would go on to build modern science fiction.
WHY THIS EDITION? Burroughs’s Mars is free everywhere—in scattered single volumes. This Erato Press edition gathers all seven novels of the first cycle into one book, in reading order, so the saga can be read straight through as the continuous epic it became.
This annotated edition includes:
- All seven Mars novels of 1912–1930, complete and unabridged
- A critical afterword, “The Sword and the Planet,” on Burroughs and the birth of planetary romance
- An essay on Mars, empire, and the American imagination
- A biographical afterword on Edgar Rice Burroughs
The adventure that invented a genre—seven novels, one volume.
The Martian Novels (Annotated)
A Princess of Mars and the Classic Mars Novels — Seven Sword-and-Planet Adventures by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1912–1930)
By: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Narrated by: Virtual Voice
Length: 46 hrs and 12 mins
Release date: 06-09-26
Language: English
Format and Bitrate: M4B@62 kbps
Size: 1.23 GB
