John Carter of Mars: Vol. Two: Thuvia, Maid of Mars and The Chessmen of Mars

By Edgar Rice Burroughs

Written during the heyday of the pulp fiction era by Edgar Rice Burroughs—the renowned author of the immensely popular Tarzan novels—these thrilling adventure tales are filled with swashbuckling derring-do and romance. Complete with a glossary of characters and places, a map, and a new introduction by science-fiction novelist and scholar Brian Stableford, John Carter of Mars, Vol. 2—featuring the fourth and fifth novels in the series: Thuvia, Maid of Mars and The Chessmen of Mars—is a page-turning, groundbreaking work of science fiction you won’t soon forget.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Fall River Press
• Release date: Mar 6, 2012
• ISBN: 9781435139466

Edgar Rice Burroughs

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.