A Princess of Mars
The founding text of planetary romance. A century of admirers from Carl Sagan to George Lucas; Disney's 2012 John Carter film flopped financially but adapted it with some affection.
Series Guide
Barsoom
Burroughs's dying Mars of dead sea bottoms, four-armed green warriors and incomparable princesses — eleven volumes of swashbuckling planetary romance that taught the twentieth century to dream of the red planet.
In the Guide
The Gods of Mars
Widely rated the best Barsoom novel, and a startlingly savage satire of organised religion for 1913 pulp fiction.