Give me Barsoom any day of the week! Get high on your own imagination. Nowadays it seems that most fantasies involve two or more of the opposite sex, a kilo of coke in a locked room or something else artificial. I'm just a plain old Texas boy who likes a little fantasy when he can. I am not a scholar, so don't look for scholarly work. I felt it was necessary to do this research independently to avoid having their influences or observations obstructing my compilation and comments. Others have done authoritative works on Barsoom but I have not read them as of yet.
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When I began work on Dead Cities of Mars in 1982 I re-read the entire series and took notes. I first read the Martian series between 19. When it is I hope you will enjoy it-until then my research produced a rather handy glossary of Barsoomian facts which should interest old and new fans of Burroughs' adventure tales set on the planet Mars. Perhaps my manuscript Dead Cities of Mars will be available one day. What originally started as research to write a Barsoomian Spoof soon became an obsession to detail Edgar Rice Burroughs' wondrous Martian Saga. This website is the most up-to-date version.
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To obtain an earlier version of A Barsoom Glossary in PDF format: right click Save As to keep a copy). Illustrations by various, including the author. Quotes from the works by Edgar Rice Burroughs are either in Quotes, Italics, or Blockquote format. Links are provided to other sections when applicable, but otherwise linking is kept to a minimum, each section is complete for presentation purposes. Footnotes (where applicable) are IN LINE with the appropriate paragraph. Lists are usually presented in Alphabetical Order.
Each section has internal navigation within itself, or one can return to this page to enter each section. That didn't happen however, since 1996 A BARSOOM GLOSSARY has become an internationally recognized on-line reference for the Martian works of Edgar Rice Burroughs.Ī Barsoom Glossary is presented in three major sections: People, Places, and Things. This glossary began as a writing aid for my Dead Cities of Mars pastiche I once hoped to market via print channels. Click EXTRAS to see what is NEW at A BARSOOM GLOSSARY!
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