The Barsoom Series (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- First Published: 1912
- Type of Work: Novels
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—planetary romance
- Time of Work: The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
- Setting: Earth and Mars
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: Prisons, Love or romance, Twentieth century, Escapes, Nineteenth century, Mars
- Locales: Earth, Mars
The Plot
Although the Barsoom series was written over a long period of time and spans a long time in its internal chronology, Edgar Rice Burroughs sustained his narrative by creating a plot line that chronicled the adventures of a family, not one individual. Through eleven novels, originally serialized in popular science-fiction magazines, the history of Mars is traced from ancient times to the present.
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