In both books John or David enter their new world in the nude. IT WAS LOGIC, GOOD EARTHLY FEMINE LOGIC If you have read 'At The Earth's Core', you will be amazed in how similar the plots are. It is a strange world where a movie that makes $200M+ globally and is still judged a failure. I would love to see further efforts to make films out of the Barsoom series. It is a shame that Disney's John Carter movie didn't do better. It is hard to watch Han Solo walk without thinking of John Carter's swagger or dream about Princess Leah in chains without my subconscious somehow floating back into visions of Princess Dejah Thoris in - yes - chains. It influenced everybody from Alex Raymond (Flash Gordon) to George Lucas (Star Wars) to James Cameron (Avatar). 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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