A Princess of Mars, by Burroughs, Edgar Rice

One of the earliest commercially successful science fantasy novel series was Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom series, and A Princess of Mars was the first book in the cycle. Though it was not as commercially successful as Burroughs' later Tarzan novels, he did make his mark on SF with these books. In my opinion this first one is the best. It's a big book with multiple sub-plots and a moderately large cast of characters. So rather than get into what is sure to be a hectic descrip[…]

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