

The Chessmen Of Mars
Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Series: Mars #5
Narrator: Gene Engene
Unabridged: 9 hr 44 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Books In Motion
Published: 04/15/2005
Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction
Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Series: Mars #5
Narrator: Gene Engene
Unabridged: 9 hr 44 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Books In Motion
Published: 04/15/2005
Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction
Edgar Rice Burroughs was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1875, to a prosperous family. His father was a civil war veteran. Burroughs attended several private schools, concluding with the Michigan Military Academy at Orchar Lake. Here he later became an instructor and assistant commandant. During the First World War, he served in the Seventh Cavalry and Illinois Reserve Militia, and in 1900 he married Emma Centennia Hulbert, with whom he had two sons and one daughter. Burroughs tried his luck at several different occupations, including railroad policeman, advertising agency partner, and office manager, none of which were successful, and the family lived near poverty.
The turning point came when Burroughs started to write for pulp fiction magazines at the age of thirty-five. In 1912, Burroughs's first true success came with the publication of Dejah Thoris, Princess of Mars in All-Story Magazine, which introduced his popular, invincible hero of Mars, John Carter. The Martian series eventually reached eleven books. Later that same year, Burroughs wrote his best-known book, Tarzan of the Apes. This was the start of his longest and most successful series, which eventually reached twenty-four books. Other popular stories from Burroughs's pen include the Carson of Venus books, the Pellucidar tales, and The Land That Time Forgot, a total of some sixty-eight titles.
In 1913, Burroughs founded his own publishing house, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., which still publishes his works today. Burroughs-Tarzan Enterprises and Burroughs-Tarzan Pictures were founded in 1934. Burroughs also found time to dabble in politics and was elected mayor of California Beach in 1933. During World War II, at the age of 66, he served as a war correspondent in the South Pacific and wrote columns for the Honolulu Advertiser. Burroughs died of a heart ailment on March 19, 1950.
3.5 to 4 stars – I will round up here to an official 4 star rating. Another classic sci-fi tale that brings forth black and white images from early sci-fi films of bold, muscular heroes, space-damsels in distress, and bizarre/grotesque alien creatures. When the space craft are flying, you might even......more
I really have to say... Burroughs is consistently surprising me. I particularly like how he's moving away from the whole Earthling god on Mars bit and focusing on Carter's kids. His daughter is a real firecracker, but only in the older sense of a noble's kid who is taught everything from her doting f......more
One of my two favorite Barsoom books outside of the initial trilogy. (The other being A Fighting Man of Mars.) Again it's in third person, allowing for different points of view. This time, though, we get a proper John Carter prologue/intro explaining how ERB obtained the manuscript. Very similar to......more
"The Chessmen of Mars," Edgar Rice Burroughs' 5th John Carter novel out of 11, first appeared in serial form in the magazine "Argosy All Story Weekly" from February to April 1922. It is easily the best of the Carter lot to this point; the most detailed, the most imaginative, and the best written. Ca......more
I really enjoy the large cast of main characters that ERB weaves into his series. someone who was a 2nd string player in a book can be the main hero 2 books later. It makes for a nice changing and growing family of characters the drive the series along. Very recommended......more