Tara of Helium, the Warlord's beautiful and spirited daughter, is carried away by the vast winds of a violent Martian Storm. Tara brings her small one-man flyer down safely enough, but she is stranded in a strange part of Barsoom, where magnificent rykors-headless bodies work like cattle at the mercy of their pitiless masters, the kaldanes-creatures which are all head and no body. And this is not all, for in trying to escape from the Kaldanes Tara is captured by the city of Manator where she becomes the prize in the Martian game of chess, jetan-played with living pieces-and played to the...
Tara of Helium, the Warlord's beautiful and spirited daughter, is carried away by the vast winds of a violent Martian Storm. Tara brings her small one...
When unknown raiders seized Thuvia, Princess of Ptarth, the chief suspect was Carthoris, son of the Warlord of Mars. Yet only Carthoris could rescue the women who had spurned his love. Carthoris saw Thuvia dragged to the foot of the rostrum. He saw Hortan Gur address her. He could not hear the Torquasian jeddak s words, nor Thuvia's reply, but it must have angered the green monster, for Carthoris saw him leap toward the prisoner, striking her a cruel blow across the face. Then the son of John Carter, Warlord of Barsoom, went mad. His half-Earth muscles sent him in enormous leaps and bounds...
When unknown raiders seized Thuvia, Princess of Ptarth, the chief suspect was Carthoris, son of the Warlord of Mars. Yet only Carthoris could rescue t...
Edgar Rice Burroughs (1. syyskuuta 1875 Chicago, Yhdysvallat - 19. maaliskuuta 1950 Encino, Kalifornia, Yhdysvallat) oli yhdysvaltalainen kirjailija, joka tunnetaan erityisesti Tarzan- ja Mars-kirjasarjoistaan. Burroughs kavi koulunsa paikallisissa kouluissa. Chicagon influenssaepidemian aikaan vuonna 1891 han vietti puoli vuotta veljensa maatilalla Idahossa. Burroughs valmistui Michiganin sotilasakatemiasta vuonna 1895 ja pyrki West Pointiin, jonka paasykokeita han ei kuitenkaan lapaissyt. Han oli sen jalkeen jonkin aikaa varvattyna sotilaana, mutta vapautettiin palveluksesta, kun hanella...
Edgar Rice Burroughs (1. syyskuuta 1875 Chicago, Yhdysvallat - 19. maaliskuuta 1950 Encino, Kalifornia, Yhdysvallat) oli yhdysvaltalainen kirjailija, ...
MAN, MONSTER, OR JUNGLE GOD? They called him Number 13, the latest and best of Dr. Von Horn's attempts to make life from lifeless chemicals. He found himself an almost-human on Von Horn's hideaway jungle island off the coast of Borneo. He saw the monsters that preceded him, growing used to the dreadful travesties of humanity. Not until Number Thirteen met the American girl who was Von Horn's unwilling prisoner did he realize how different he was from the others. Because, monsters or not, he turned against his master and threw in his lot with the girl and his friends with their desperate...
MAN, MONSTER, OR JUNGLE GOD? They called him Number 13, the latest and best of Dr. Von Horn's attempts to make life from lifeless chemicals. He found ...