Warlord of Mars / Thuvia Maid of Mars

Barsoom #3-4

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

John Carter of Mars Volume 2. Warlord of Mars & Thuvia Maid of Mars John Carter of Mars, the Prince of Helium, returns in Edgar Rice Burroughs' famous series. In Warlord of Mars, Carter embarks on a relentless search for his wife, Dejah Thoris, and must pit his wits against the remaining Therns and the renegade black dator, Thurid of the First Born. In Thuvia, Maid of Mars, Cathoris, son of John Carter, embarks on a hair-raising adventure to save the beautiful Thuvia of Ptarth from treachery, mind manipulators and the green horde! The planet Mars itself, as always, plays a colourful and exotic role in these fantastical adventures.

Genres: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Classics, Sword and Planet

264 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1992

About the author

Edgar Rice Burroughs was an American author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan and the heroic John Carter, although he produced works in many genres.

Reviews

[Rodzilla · Rating 2 out of 5]

What an odd paring! The "Warlord of Mars" is excellent pulp fiction from the magazines, while "Thuvia,Maid of Mars" is a hastily hammered out and weak book.

If you are interested, I suggest a pass on this volume and instead read #1, #2 and #3 in order, singly or as an omnibus. Those three comprise one of the greatest adventure yarns ever, and each goes one to the next in cliffhanger fashion; indeed, they were published as serials, starting with #1, "A Princess of Mars," in 1917. They are a set. There's a reason many of the SF giants of yore revered Burroughs, and it is not his Tarzan books. And the movie does an awful job of capturing the early 20th century unintentional comedy yet page-turning excitement of John Carter.

The other special one in the series is #7, "A Fighting Man of Mars." My rank of the rest: #5 > #6 = #9 > #4 = #8 = #10 >> #11

[Jonathan De Leon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Reading the books by John Carter of Mars is similar to reading a comic book in literary form. The books are all in a narrative form as if reading a diary, but I enjoy everything despite it being a little silly. By silly I mean you know the character is going further down the rabbit hole because he continues to allow the villain to win just to make the book progress longer. Still if you are looking for simple entertainment go ahead and read these books, however, I recently watched Love Craft on HBO and it reminded me that the protagonist is a confederate and it annoyed me that I hate it when people use ex-confederates as heroes. Burroughs portrays John Carter as quite the magnanimous gentlemen as if he is Jesus reborn and I completely forgot his dark past because he portrays no racism in the book. Still I’d recommend reading it if you want a change of pace.

[Ron · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really enjoy the Barsoom series however they changed the person who reads them and he is TERRIBLE.

[George · Rating 4 out of 5]

the seconed two books were different in the aspect that they were in the aspect of john carters son Carthoris ( only the fourth one). In the third one John carter tells you how he becomes the warlord of "barsoom". by meeting the yellow people of barsoom and helping the rightful ruler of the yellow clan arise instead of the tryant they have ruling them before.

In the fourth book it is in the point of veiw of Carthoris, John carters son and him chasing his crush around the planet trying to retrive her from another prince who is also crushing on her. in the end they get married after Carthoris comes in and turns over the young prince to his father who is deeply disgraced.

[Old Salt · Rating 3 out of 5]

The version of this book has the first 9 books of 11 of this series. I found the movie was better, which Combined the first 3 books together, in a way that was totally different than the way. the book tells the story. The author repetition of story telling gets old fast. I found I am not reading this as much as I was. Don't know if I will finish it Now The Hunger Games, which I read before this one, I finished all 3 books with in 2 weeks at the most. That one was a real page turner.

[Marcia · Rating 5 out of 5]

I just can't put these books down :0) Book 3 ends lengthy chase to save John Carter's wife, and I was just amazed that the author could keep the action going non stop for so long. Book 4 is about John Carter's son and surprise surprise he needs to save a princess. I fully expect in Book 5 that there is more princess saving and I will love every minute of it.

[Pete · Rating 4 out of 5]

Found this book in my family library after seeing that a movie had been made which I'll probably get for my iPad.

John Carter is sort of the superman of mars in this Barsoom series. It was an easy read and page turner, with intriguing monsters and foes,but the writing style differences were very apparent.

[William Shep · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another excellent volume (though overpriced) of Edgar Rice Burroughs' classic Mars (Barsoom) series. My son and I enjoyed reading this aloud.

[Daniel Smythe · Rating 4 out of 5]

The momentum slips, but only a little.

[Karen Leite · Rating 5 out of 5]

ok. first vol better

[Brandon Donnell · Rating 5 out of 5]

Still loving it.