252p. ; crimson cover with black embossed print and boarderfictionJohn Carter, a Confederate veteran of the American Civil War, goes prospecting in Arizona with his companion James K. Powell immediately after the war's end. Having struck a rich vein of gold, he runs afoul of the Apaches who kill Powell. While attempting to evade pursuit by hiding in a sacred cave, he is mysteriously transported to Mars, called "Barsoom" by its inhabitants. Carter finds that he has great strength and superhuman agility in this new environment as a result of its lesser gravity and lower atmospheric pressure. He soon falls in with the Tharks, a nomadic tribe of Green Martians, as the planet's warlike, six-limbed, green-skinned inhabitants are known. Thanks to his strength and martial prowess, Carter rises to a high position in the tribe and earns the respect and eventually the friendship of Tars Tarkas, one of the Thark chieftains.fiction, science fiction, edgar rice burroughs, the martian series, the barzoom series

221p. ; crimson cover with black embossed print and boarderfictionAfter the battle at the end of the previous book, which ended with the destruction of the religion of Issus, John Carter's wife and two other women were locked in a slowly rotating prison attached to the Temple of the Sun, each of whose hundreds of cells are only open to the outside world once every year. In the meantime, Carter's friend Xodar has become the new Jeddak (chief or king) of the black Martian First Born, and those white Martian therns who reject the old religion likewise gain a new unnamed leader, but there are still some who wish to keep the old discredited religion going, including the therns' erstwhile leader, the Holy Hekkador Matai Shangfiction, science fiction, edgar rice burroughs, the martian series, the barzoom series