The Warlord of Mars

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image_caption = "The Warlord of Mars"
author = Edgar Rice Burroughs
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country = United States
language = English
series = Barsoom
genre = Science fiction novel
publisher = A. C. McClurg
release_date = 1919
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 296 pp
isbn = NA
preceded_by = The Gods of Mars
followed_by = Thuvia, Maid of Mars

"The Warlord of Mars" is a science fiction novel written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the third of his famous "Barsoom" series. Burroughs began writing it in June, 1913, going through five working titles; "Yellow Men of Barsoom", "The Fighting Prince of Mars", "Across Savage Mars", "The Prince of Helium", and "The War Lord of Mars". The finished story was first published in "All Story Magazine" as a four-part serial in the issues for December, 1913-March, 1914. It was later published as a complete novel by A. C. McClurg in September, 1919.

Plot summary

This novel continues where the previous one in the series, "The Gods of Mars" abruptly ended.

At the end of the previous book, John Carter's wife, the princess Dejah Thoris, is imprisoned in the Temple of the Sun by the vile pretender goddess Issus. It is said one has to wait an entire Barsoomian year before the room the prisoner is in revolves back to the entrance.

John Carter discovers that a First Born knows the secret of the Temple of the Sun and he and the Holy Hekkador Matai Shang want to rescue the Holy Thern's daughter who is imprisoned with Dejah Thoris and another Barsoomian princess, Thuvia of Ptarth. John Carter follows them in the hope to liberate his beloved wife. His antagonists manage to stay ahead of him and flee to the north, taking the three previously imprisoned women along.

No ordeal can detain John Carter from his quest to be reunited with his wife. He follows them untiring into the undiscovered north polar regions where he discovers more fantastic creatures and ancient mysterious Martian races.

Copyright

The copyright for this story has expired in the United States and, thus, now resides in the public domain there. The text is available via Project Gutenberg.

References

*cite book | last=Bleiler | first=Everett | authorlink=Everett F. Bleiler | title=The Checklist of Fantastic Literature | location=Chicago | publisher=Shasta Publishers | pages=68 | date=1948

External links

* [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/68 Text of the novel at Project Gutenberg]
* [http://www.erblist.com/erblist/warlordsummary.html Edgar Rice Burroughs Summary Project page for "The Warlord of Mars"]