John Carter of Mars:: Volume 2

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Oct 2013 · Harper Collins

About this ebook

In the fourth, fifth and six books of Burroughs classic science fiction saga following John Carter, a human mysteriously transported to Mars, the epic scope expands introducing a cast of new characters. Included in this volume are the stories of John Carter and Dejah Thoris’ son, Carthoris, who plunges the planet, known as Barsoom to its inhabitants, in to war in the name of love and their daughter, Tara who finds herself in a deadly game of Jetan with her suitor, Prince Gahan. In the final book the reader meets Ulysses Paxton, another earthling like Carter, who is transported to Mars where he finds himself being saved by the “Master Mind of Mars” Ras Thavas, a brilliant but devious being who has perfected brain transplants.

About the author

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) is the creator of Tarzan, one of the most popular fictional characters of all time, and John Carter, hero of the Barsoom science fiction series. Burroughs was a prolific author, writing almost 70 books before his death in 1950, and was one of the first authors to popularize a character across multiple media, as he did with Tarzan’s appearance in comic strips, movies, and merchandise. Residing in Hawaii at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941, Burroughs was drawn into the Second World War and became one of the oldest war correspondents at the time. Edgar Rice Burroughs’s popularity continues to be memorialized through the community of Tarzana, California, which is named after the ranch he owned in the area, and through the Burrough crater on Mars, which was named in his honour.