A Princess of Mars

It is the first novel of the Martian series written by Edgar Rice Burroughs; About the fictional character John Carter. This story was first published in the pulp magazine All-Story Magazine in February 1912 under the title Under the Moons of Mars under the pseudonym of Norman Bean and published as a book for the first time in 1917. The character turned out to be so popular that Burroughs continued the series with nine sequels. Filled with audacious exploits and sword battles, this novel is a pioneering example of the literary subgenre of sword and planet, very popular in the twentieth century. A princess from Mars is one of the few jobs for which Burroughs, in his inexperience as a writer, gave up all the rights of serialization; Reason for which this work is under public domain. Set on a dying Mars inspired by the ideas popularized by the astronomer Percival Lowell in the early twentieth century, this novel was a source of inspiration for many science fiction writers; Including Arthur C. Clarke, John Norman and Ray Bradbury, and cleared the way for space exploration and the pursuit of extraterrestrial life.