![]() The series spans 1912 to 1964 with nine novels, one volume of linked novellas, and two unrelated novellas. A dry and slowly dying world, Barsoom contains four different human civilizations, one non-human one, a scattering of science among swashbuckling, and a plethora of religions, mystery cities, and strange beasts. Our Saga: The adventures of Earthman John Carter, his progeny, and sundry other natives and visitors, on the planet Mars, known to its inhabitants as Barsoom. Readers hung on through the middle of 1913 until Burroughs brought a conclusion to the John Carter epic at the end of the year and made his hero into The Warlord of Mars. Did she kill Dejah Thoris? Or did the noble Thuvia take the blow instead? She may not even be alive, since the last moments that John Carter witnessed, the jealous thern woman Phaidor was ready to stab Carter’s love. ![]() A whole year must pass before the slow rotation of the chamber will allow Dejah Thoris to escape. ![]() John Carter will not return to the protagonist role until the eighth book, Swords of Mars, published twenty-one years later.Īt the end of the thrill-ride of The Gods of Mars, John Carter lost his love Dejah Thoris in the Chamber of the Sun within the Temple of Issus. ![]() Although there are still eight more books to go in the Mars series, with The Warlord of Mars I can bring to a conclusion Phase #1 of the saga: this completes the “John Carter Trilogy,” and the books that follow it take different paths with new heroes. ![]()
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