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    The Chessmen of Mars
    The Chessmen of Mars
    The Chessmen of Mars
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    The Chessmen of Mars

    Written by Edgar Rice Burroughs

    Narrated by Arthur Vincet

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    The Chessmen of Mars is a science fantasy novel from the Barsoom series. Tara—daughter of regular series-hero John Carter and Deja Thorismeets Prince Gahan of Gathol, and is initially unimpressed, viewing him as something of a popinjay. Later she takes her flier into a storm and loses control of the craft, and the storm carries her to an unfamiliar region of Barsoom. After landing and fleeing from a pack of ferocious Banths (Martian lions), she is captured by the horrific Kaldanes, who resemble large heads with small, crab-like legs. The Kaldanes have bred a symbiotic race of headless human-like creatures called Rykors, which they can attach themselves to and ride like a horse. The Kaldanes imprison Tara, intending to fatten her up, then eat her... Will Gahan be able to rescue her? If so, will there be more trouble ahead?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAudioliterature
    Release dateMar 22, 2017
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    Edgar Rice Burroughs

    Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) is the creator of Tarzan, one of the most popular fictional characters of all time, and John Carter, hero of the Barsoom science fiction series. Burroughs was a prolific author, writing almost 70 books before his death in 1950, and was one of the first authors to popularize a character across multiple media, as he did with Tarzan’s appearance in comic strips, movies, and merchandise. Residing in Hawaii at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941, Burroughs was drawn into the Second World War and became one of the oldest war correspondents at the time. Edgar Rice Burroughs’s popularity continues to be memorialized through the community of Tarzana, California, which is named after the ranch he owned in the area, and through the Burrough crater on Mars, which was named in his honour.

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      This was an okay book, the series is moving more and more away from that sword and sorcery feel, it retains the adventurous aspect of the series. Overall in enjoyable experience