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(W) Ian Edginton, Edgar Rice Burroughs (A/CA) I. N. J. Culbard
"I was filled with a terrible, single purpose ... to survive!" First serialized a century ago as
Under the Moons of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs's planetary romance is recognized today as a genre-bending pulp-fiction classic, more influential even than the Tarzan stories that earned its author fortune and fame. Perhaps the founding text of modern sci-fi, its doomed love story (between the heroic explorer John Carter and Dejah Thoris, "The Princess of Mars") was the first to imagine the "green men of the Red Planet!
In Shops: May 23, 2012
SRP: $15.95
