Bison Frontiers of Imagination: Pirates of Venus (Paperback)

from bnielsen

Jorden og Venus, ca 1935 Forfatteren bliver ringet op af sin ven Jason Gridley, der lige har modtaget et radiobudskab fra Pellucidar, (Jordens indre verden) om at løjtnant von Horst vistnok er fundet. Jason var med i en ekspedition til Pellucidar sammen med Tarzan, David Innes og kaptajn Zuppner ...

from thesmellofbooks

Despite the various trodden and untrue tropes, not so old at time of writing, I was surprised by the level of the prose in this book. The bits of wry humour sparingly sprinkled improve the quality of the read still more. Even the female lead, though familiar to readers of fainting-women-burly-men...

from uvula_fr_b4

The first of Edgar Rice Burroughs' five-book Carson of Venus series (well, 4⅓ books, given that the last installment, the posthumously-published Wizard of Venus, is only 50 pps. long), Pirates of Venus is a sad come-down from the zest and vigor of the first few books in ERB's John Carter and Tarz...

from Rosenectur

I decided to bite the bullet and read through Edgar Rice Burroughs "Venus" series in 2012. Pirate is the first book and recounts how a man named Carson travel from earth to Venus, and gets stranded there. He is able to communicate his adventure back to earth via telephathy. Chief among those adve...

from DarthDeverell

It is hard not to compare Carson Napier with Edgar Rice Burroughs's other interplanetary adventurer, John Carter of Mars, though the two have very little in common. While Carter and Barsoom represent an American audience looking back on the conquering of the frontier, Napier and Amtor very much r...