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A Princess of Mars

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1912
67,019
1990
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Foreword
1 - On the Arizona Hills
2 - The Escape of the Dead
3 - My Advent on Mars
4 - A Prisoner
5 - I Elude My Watch Dog
6 - A Fight That Won Friends
7 - Child-raising on Mars
8 - A Fair Captive From the Sky
9 - I Learn the Language
10 - Champion and Chief
11 - With Dejah Thoris
12 - A Prisoner With Power
13 - Love-making on Mars
14 - A Duel to the Death
15 - Sola Tells Me Her Story
16 - We Plan Escape
17 - A Costly Recapture
18 - Chained in Warhoon
19 - Battling in the Arena
20 - In the Atmosphere Factory
21 - An Air Scout for Zodanga
22 - I Find Dejah
23 - Lost in the Sky
24 - Tars Tarkas Finds a Friend
25 - The Looting of Zodanga
26 - Through Carnage to Joy
27 - From Joy to Death
28 - At the Arizona Cave
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Also known are the Mars series is a series of serialized science fiction stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs originally published in magazine installments.

1) A Princess of Mars
2) The Gods of Mars
3) The Warlord of Mars
4) Thuvia, Maid of Mars
5) The Chessmen of Mars
6) The Master Mind of Mars
7) A Fighting Man of Mars
8) Swords of Mars
9) Synthetic Men of Mars
10) Llana of Gathol
11) John Carter of Mars
The moons of Mars looked down upon a giant Martian thoat as it raced silently over the soft mossy ground.
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Soon my incomparable Dejah Thoris would be again in my arms.
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This book was originally published as a six-part serial in All-Story Magazine beginning in February 1912 titled "Under the Moons of Mars" using the pseudonym Norman Bean.  It was later serialized in six-parts in the New York Evening World January 3-8, 1916.  it was once again published as "Carter of the Red Planet" in a four-part serial in Modern Mechanics & Invention in April-July, 1929.
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I opened my eyes upon a strange and weird landscape. I knew that I was on Mars; not once did I question either my sanity or my wakefulness. I was not asleep, no need for pinching here; my inner consciousness told me as plainly that I was upon Mars as your conscious mind tells you that you are upon Earth. You do not question the fact; neither did I.

I found myself lying prone upon a bed of yellowish, mosslike vegetation which stretched around me in all directions for interminable miles. I seemed to be lying in a deep, circular basin, along the outer verge of which I could distinguish the irregularities of low hills.

It was midday, the sun was shining full upon me and the heat of it was rather intense upon my naked body, yet no greater than would have been true under similar conditions on an Arizona desert. Here and there were slight outcroppings of quartz–bearing rock which glistened in the sunlight; and a little to my left, perhaps a hundred yards, appeared a low, walled enclosure about four feet in height. No water, and no other vegetation than the moss was in evidence, and as I was somewhat thirsty I determined to do a little exploring.

Springing to my feet I received my first Martian surprise, for the effort, which on Earth would have brought me standing upright, carried me into the Martian air to the height of about three yards. I alighted softly upon the ground, however, without appreciable shock or jar. Now commenced a series of evolutions which even then seemed ludicrous in the extreme. I found that I must learn to walk all over again, as the muscular exertion which carried me easily and safely upon Earth played strange antics with me upon Mars.

Instead of progressing in a sane and dignified manner, my attempts to walk resulted in a variety of hops which took me clear of the ground a couple of feet at each step and landed me sprawling upon my face or back at the end of each second or third hop. My muscles, perfectly attuned and accustomed to the force of gravity on Earth, played the mischief with me in attempting for the first time to cope with the lesser gravitation and lower air pressure on Mars.

I was determined, however, to explore the low structure which was the only evidence of habitation in sight, and so I hit upon the unique plan of reverting to first principles in locomotion, creeping. I did fairly well at this and in a few moments had reached the low, encircling wall of the enclosure.

There appeared to be no doors or windows upon the side nearest me, but as the wall was but about four feet high I cautiously gained my feet and peered over the top upon the strangest sight it had ever been given me to see.

 

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Last Updated: 18-Jun-2022

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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!
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Edgar Rice Burroughs  
Birth: 01 Sep 1875 Chicago, Illinois, USA
Death: 19 Mar 1950 Encino, California, USA

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