Do you enjoy adventure stories filled with nonstop action, epic battles, numerous swordfights, handsome heroes, and beautiful heroines? Are you intrigued at the notion of a man from Earth battling a hostile alien world for the love of a beautiful princess? Then you should definitely check out the science-fiction epic A Princess of Mars, whose PDF e-book edition is available from the StarWarp Concepts webstore!
A Princess of Mars is the classic science-fantasy novel written in 1912 by Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs that served as the basis for Disney’s 2012 film adaptation, John Carter, and inspired numerous SF works, from Flash Gordon to Star Wars to James Cameron’s Avatar. It’s also the source material for Dynamite Entertainment’s various Mars-related comic book projects, including the current series, John Carter: Warlord of Mars. Not bad for a novel that’s been in print for over a hundred years, wouldn’t you say? The special StarWarp Concepts edition of A Princess of Mars features six incredible illustrations by SWC artist supreme Eliseu Gouveia (Carmilla, Lorelei: Sects and the City, The Saga of Pandora Zwieback #0, The Saga of Pandora Zwieback Annual #1), and a special introduction by Mars-fiction expert John Gosling, author of Waging the War of the Worlds.
For those of you who might be unfamiliar with this classic novel, here’s the synopsis:
Captain John Carter thought his days as a fighter were over. The South had lost the Civil War, and as a soldier now without a battle to fight or a cause to believe in, he journeyed west in search of a new life.
But not even Carter could have expected that his new life would begin with his death in the Arizona desert, and his inexplicable arrival on the barren plains of the planet Mars. Or that he would find love in the eyes of the beauteous Dejah Thoris, princess of Helium.
A prisoner of the giant, green-skinned warrior race called the Tharks, Dejah Thoris is meant to be used as a pawn in the ongoing war between the Tharks and her people, the red Martians—unless the gentleman from Virginia takes sword in hand to free her…and thus unite a divided world.
Once more, John Carter has a cause to fight for—and this time, a love to win, as well….
Visit the Princess of Mars product page to order and download your copy. And don’t worry, book lovers, we also have the print version available for those of you who prefer holding a physical book in your hands; you can order it from the product page, too.
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