The Art of Michael Whelan

The Art of Michael Whelan
Author: Michael Whelan
Publisher: Bantam Dell Publishing Group
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1993
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780553074475

Award-winning artist Whelan has illustrated the work of almost every major author in speculative fiction. Here are featured all the artist's major recent paintings, as well as a series of 25 never-before-seen works produced especially for this book. Over 100 full-color reproductions.

The Chessmen of Mars Illustrated

The Chessmen of Mars Illustrated
Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Publisher:
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2021-10-13
Genre:
ISBN:

The Chessmen of Mars is a science fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the fifth of his Barsoom series. Burroughs began writing it in January, 1921, and the finished story was first published in Argosy All-Story Weekly as a six-part serial in the issues for February 18 and 25 and March 4, 11, 18 and 25, 1922. It was later published as a complete novel by A. C. McClurg in November 1922.

The Chessmen of Mars Illustrated

The Chessmen of Mars Illustrated
Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Publisher:
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2021-04-17
Genre:
ISBN:

The Chessmen of Mars is an Edgar Rice Burroughs science fiction novel, the fifth of his famous Barsoom series, and focuses on Tara, daughter of John Carter and Dejah Thoris, princess of Helium, whose hand is sought by Gahan, prince of Gathol. The courtship is wrought with capture and rescue danger and triumph including survival in the Jetan arena, a popular Barsoomian board game resembling Chess which uses people as the game pieces on a life-sized board, with each taking of a piece being a duel to the death. Edgar Rice Burroughs was an American author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan, "Lost Worlds" and the heroic Mars adventurer John Carter.

Science-fiction, the Early Years

Science-fiction, the Early Years
Author: Everett Franklin Bleiler
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Total Pages: 1032
Release: 1990
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780873384162

In this volume the author describes more than 3000 short stories, novels, and plays with science fiction elements, from earliest times to 1930. He includes imaginary voyages, utopias, Victorian boys' books, dime novels, pulp magazine stories, British scientific romances and mainstream work with science fiction elements. Many of these publications are extremely rare, surviving in only a handful of copies, and most of them have never been described before.

The Chessmen of Mars

The Chessmen of Mars
Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Publisher:
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2018-11-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9781947964754

Human chessmen who must fight to the death at their masters' command-such is but one of the many thrills that await the reader in this terrific tale of adventure and discovery in the lost cities of Barsoom-the Mars of Edgar Rice Burroughs! Gahan of Gathol pits his sword against heads without bodies and bodies without heads, against a fiendish monarch, and against the terrors of a forbidden city-with his reward the hand of a captive maiden, Tara, the Warlord's daughter.

The Chessmen of Mars: Illustrated Edition

The Chessmen of Mars: Illustrated Edition
Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Publisher:
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2021-08-28
Genre:
ISBN:

The Chessmen of Mars is a science fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the fifth of his Barsoom series. Burroughs began writing it in January, 1921, and the finished story was first published in Argosy All-Story Weekly as a six-part serial in the issues for February 18 and 25 and March 4, 11, 18 and 25, 1922. It was later published as a complete novel by A. C. McClurg in November 1922.

The Master Mind of Mars

The Master Mind of Mars
Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Publisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Total Pages: 5
Release: 2024-02-02
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN:

"The Master Mind of Mars" is a science fiction novel written by Edgar Rice Burroughs. First published in 1928, it is the sixth book in Burroughs' "Barsoom" series, also known as the John Carter of Mars series. The story is set on the fictional planet Mars (Barsoom) and follows the continuing adventures of John Carter, a Confederate soldier transported to Mars, as he becomes embroiled in the conflicts and mysteries of the Martian civilizations.

John Carter of Mars

John Carter of Mars
Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Publisher: eStar Books
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2012-02-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1612104908

This book includes: John Carter and the Giants of Mars and The Skeleton Men of Jupiter

The Collected John Carter of Mars (Volume 1)

The Collected John Carter of Mars (Volume 1)
Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Publisher: Disney Electronic Content
Total Pages: 767
Release: 2012-02-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 142317030X

Book One of the John Carter of Mars collections, this edition contains the original text from the first, second, and third of Edgar Rice Burrough's world-famous novels. Originally published from 1917 and 1919, A Princess of Mars, The Gods of Mars, and The Warlord of Mars are science-fiction classics, and the origin of Burroughs's legendary series.

John Carter of Mars

John Carter of Mars
Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Publisher:
Total Pages: 945
Release:
Genre: Carter, John (Fictitious character)
ISBN: 9781435149915

"Page-turners filled with interplanetary perils and thrilling romance, these five epic adventure tales remapped the terrain of fantasy and science fiction." ==P. [4] of cover.