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Burroughs launches readers onto a Mars populated by warring civilizations and impossible romance, creating the template for planetary adventure that still influences science fiction today. This is science fiction before the genre solidified—wildly imaginative, unapologetically pulpy, and utterly compelling.

Burroughs returns to Mars with a different protagonist—a princess whose agency, ambition, and romantic complexity challenge the space opera conventions he established in the first novel. This sequel deepens the world-building while centering female desire and political intrigue.

Burroughs launches readers into a Mars populated by ancient gods and alien civilizations, constructing a universe where earthly limitations dissolve and adventure becomes existentially meaningful. The Martian mythology here operates as its own coherent world, not just a backdrop for escape.

A science fantasy novel in which John Carter races over the icy polar lands of Mars to free his wife, Princess Dejah Thoris, who has been abducted. The chase leads him to a concealed Yellow Martian kingdom and to battles and rebellions.

A science fantasy novel set on Mars, published in 1922. Tara, princess of Helium, is captured by the Kaldanes, creatures that ride on headless human bodies. Gahan, a prince of Gathol who hides his identity, goes after her in the city of Manator.

A fantasy novel from 1918 in which the crew of a German U-boat is driven off course during World War I and reaches Caspak, an island of dinosaurs and primitive people. Low on supplies, the crew must survive both the wildlife and their own conflicts.

A science fiction novel set in a future where the Eastern Hemisphere was isolated from the West for more than 200 years after a war. Lieutenant Jefferson Turck, a naval officer, crosses the forbidden line and reaches a wild, dangerous Europe.

A novel published in 1914 about an English nobleman's infant son, orphaned in the African jungle and raised by apes. Named Tarzan, he is caught between his ape family and human heritage, and the arrival of a party that includes Jane Porter changes his world.

A science fantasy novel from 1918, the last of the Caspak trilogy. Bradley, missing from Fort Dinosaur, is seized by the winged Wieroo and carried to their island city, where Co-Tan joins him and the two try to escape across a prehistoric land.