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The Master Mind of Mars. The Master Mind of Mars is a science fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the sixth of his Barsoom series. Burroughs' working titles for the novel were A Weird Adventure on Mars and Vad Varo of Barsoom. It was first published in the magazine Amazing Stories Annual vol. 1, on July 15, 1927.
Edgar Rice Burroughs' 1927 The Master Mind of Mars, sixth of the eleven-book Barsoom series, begins with the narrative frame of a letter the fictionalized Burroughs received from Helium on Mars, dated June 8th, 1925, and written by Ulysses S. Paxton, "Late Captain, --th Inf., U.S. Army" (1981 Del Rey paperback, page 9), who in France during the ...
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- A LETTER. HELIUM, June 8th, 1925. MY DEAR MR. BURROUGHS: It was in 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 HOUSE OF THE DEAD. I MUST have closed my eyes involuntarily during the transition for when I opened them I was lying flat on my back gazing up into a brilliant, sun-lit sky, while standing a few feet from me and looking down upon me with the most mystified expression was as strange a looking individual as my eyes ever had rested upon.
- PREFERMENT. THREE weeks passed rapidly. I had mastered enough of the Barsoomian tongue to enable me to converse with my host in a reasonably satisfactory manner, and I was also progressing slowly in the mastery of the written language of his nation, which is different, of course, from the written language of all other Barsoomian nations, though the spoken language of all is identical.
- VALLA DIA. I LAY awake a long time that night thinking of 4296-E-2631-H, the beautiful girl whose perfect body had been stolen to furnish a gorgeous setting for the cruel brain of a tyrant.
Apr 12, 1979 · The Master Mind of Mars Mass Market Paperback – April 12, 1979 by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Author), Michael Whelan (Illustrator) 4.6 out of 5 stars 189
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Feb 26, 2023 · 'The Master Mind of Mars' is an Edgar Rice Burroughs science fiction novel, the sixth of his famous Barsoom series. It was first published in the magazine Amazing Stories Annual vol. 1, July 15, 1927.
Jan 4, 2023 · The master mind of Mars Original Publication: United States: Ballantine Books,1927,reprint 1963,reprint 1988. Series Title: Barsoom series, 6 Note:
The Master Mind of Mars Synopsis. Former Earthman Ulysses Paxton served Barsoom’s greatest scientist, until his master’s ghoulish trade in living bodies drove him to rebellion. But to save the body of the woman he loves, he must attack mighty Phundahl and its evil, beautiful ruler. Forthcoming in the Edgar Rice Burroughs Authorized Library.
