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Burroughs creates a fantastic Martian world and culture as he portrays a hidden city of dreams, the bodiless kaldanes, a mad scientist, and a living chess game.
This is the best ERB ever got. I read them and now I don't have toread any more. he has good pacing, and thaaaaat's all folks! Actually, I didn't mind the John Carter movie. I thought it was better than what he wrote. I don't think I can remember the Tarzan books I read. ( )
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Upon a massive bench of polished ersite beneath the gorgeous blooms of a giant pimalia a woman sat. (Thuvia, Maid of Mars)
Shea had just beaten me at chess, as usual, and, also as usual, I had gleaned what questionable satisfaction I might by twitting him with this indication of failing mentality by calling his attention for the nth time to that theory, propounded by certain scientists, which is based upon the assertion that phenomenal chess players are always found to be from the ranks of children under twelve, adults over seventy-two or the mentally defective - a theory that is lightly ignored upon those rare occasions that I win. (The Chessmen of Mars)
My Dear Mr. Burroughs: It was on the Fall of nineteen seventeen at an officers' training camp that I first became acquainted with John Carter, War Lord of Barsoom, through the pages of your novel "A Princess of Mars." (The Master Mind of Mars)
For those who care for such things, and would like to try the game, I give the rules of Jetan as they were given me by John Carter. (The Chessmen of Mars: Jetan, or Martian Chess)
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Though to me, beautiful as she is, there is another even more beautiful—Valla Dia, Princess of Duhor—Mrs. Ulysses Paxton. (The Master Mind of Mars)
"Take back your liberty, Thuvia of Ptarth," he cried, "and bestow it where your heart already lies enchained, and when the golden collars are clasped about your necks you will see that Kulan Tith's is the first sword to be raised in declaration of eternal friendship for the new Princess of Helium and her royal mate!" (Thuvia, Maid of Mars)
Of course the outcome of the game indicates to whom the main stake belongs; but they also put a price upon the head of each piece, according to its value, and for each piece that a player loses he pays its value to his opponent. (The Chessmen of Mars: Jetan, or Martian Chess)
Burroughs creates a fantastic Martian world and culture as he portrays a hidden city of dreams, the bodiless kaldanes, a mad scientist, and a living chess game.
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