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A Novel of Barsoom
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John McLain
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By:
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Chris L. Adams
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For more than a century fans have been entranced by Edgar Rice Burroughs’ arid red planet of Barsoom, with its valiant city states and hordes of four-armed green Martians inhabiting the dead sea bottoms, all pitted against one another in a deadly fight for survival. But what was ancient Barsoom like in its prime, before the oceans evaporated and its proud peoples were forced to construct an atmosphere factory to keep themselves alive on a dying world? Find out the answer in Dark Tides of Mars: A Novel of Barsoom by Chris L Adams, the newest volume in the Wild Adventures of Edgar Rice Burroughs series!
Barsoom is dying, its atmosphere thinning with each passing year, the seas that once flourished upon its surface dried up eons ago. When warrior-scientist Dat Voga is asked to become Helium’s ambassador to distant cities that may provide a desperate chance at life for the people of Barsoom, he leaps at the opportunity. But even as this new hope dangles on a thread, a madman seeks to hasten the Red Planet’s doom—and Dat Voga is hurled headlong upon an odyssey across the chasm of Time itself!
THE WILD ADVENTURES OF EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS
In the Wild Adventures of Edgar Rice Burroughs series, today’s authors innovate and expand upon Burroughs’ classic tales of wonder in truly wild fashion, even moving his characters and storylines outside the bounds of canon to alternate universes!
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True to character
- By shawn rowley on 12-23-22
If I am painting this book as disjointed and derivative, I don't mean to. The author understands Edgar Rice Burroughs storytelling style and mimics it well. In short, it's a fun read. My only issues with the book are some of the contortions that the author goes through to explain the "science" used in the time travel.... I would have been fine with less pseudo science and more getting on with the story. The bigger issue I had was realizing that this was not a complete story but that it ends on, essentially, a cliffhanger. These types of stories do best, in my opinion, as complete adventures, even if elements span several books... the main story feels best when it gets resolved. Still, I recommend this book as highly entertaining and wish the author all the best luck and speed with the next volume.
A Barsoom story with a twist
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This is a remarkable book which I just couldn’t put down. Dat Voga is a hero ERB could have created, on an adventure that feels like a remarkably fresh product of the master-writer’s mind. Rumor has it that more books are coming and I can’t wait to read them.
This Could Be a Lost ERB Manuscript!
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The way the story grabs
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