Under the Moons of Mars: The Tales of Barsoom (Paperback)

from WillyMammoth

Edgar Rice Burroughs' "John Carter of Mars" is one of the quintessential characters of the Pulp Fiction era. With this one character and these three books (contained herein), he took many of the tenants of pulp fiction stories that had come before and created a whole new genre, the "planetary rom...

from Karlstar

This is a great omnibus edition of the first 3 John Carter books. These books were the first of the Mars swords-and-guns style fantasy/science fiction and Burroughs is still the best. After 100 years the stories are still interesting and the 'science' still out there. True, these are massively da...

from shabacus

This volume is an omnibus, and I will be reviewing each of the three books within it separately. The overall star rating will be for the book as a whole, and not necessarily an average of the individual books within it. "A Princess of Mars" I became interested in John Carter after viewing the Dis...

from Juva

These books are very much a product of their time. Swashbuckling, formulaic, and rigidly misogynistic, it can only be enjoyed as a guilty pleasure or an interesting window into another time. A Princess of Mars - This covers the arrival of John Carter on Mars, his infiltration and mastery of the ...