John Carter and the Barsoom series is an iconic masterwork of pulp science fiction action, but author Edgar Rice Burroughs ...

Edgar Rice Burroughs’ first Martian trilogy, featuring John Carter on Barsoom, was a huge hit in the 1910s. How could he top it? With a series about Carter’s kids, apocalyptic cities, floating ...

Meanwhile, Walt Disney Pictures' “John Carter” was a long overdue adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ beloved "Barsoom" books, and featured a wide variety of Martian life. U.S. Civil War vet ...

In the last installment of our Reading Barsoom series, find out what happens when Edgar Rice Burroughs tried to write an "urban" novel of Mars, why "synthetic men" suck, and how Nazi aliens built ...

His “Barsoom” series — the books with Confederate soldier John Carter transported to a lousy-with-canals Martian 1 society on a sword-and-sandal adventure — helped launch a publishing ...

We are the Martians, ... Lowell's myth sparked volumes of popular fiction and when failed salesman Edgar Rice Burroughs penned the first of his Barsoom adventures in 1911, Martian fantasy truly ...