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Title: Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs ISBN: 1576466221 Publisher: Quiet Vision (Duplicate of QVIS9). Pub. Date: August, 2001 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $12.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.8
Rating: 4
Summary: A FAST-MOVING FANTASY
Comment: "Thuvia, Maid of Mars" is the 4th of 11 John Carter novels from the pen of Edgar Rice Burroughs. It first appeared in April 1916, as a three-part serial in the magazine "All Story Weekly." This is the first Carter novel that does not feature John Carter himself as the central character; he only makes a brief cameo appearance early on. Instead, the action mantle is taken up by Carthoris, Carter's son, but fortunately, Carter Junior turns out to be just as good a swashbuckler as the old man. In this installment, Princess Thuvia of Ptarth has been kidnapped by the spineless Prince Astok of Dusar, which abduction almost causes a world war on Barsoom (Mars). Young Carthoris, in his quest to free his beloved princess, runs across deserted cities, a forgotten kingdom, banths (10-legged Barsoomian lions), ethereal warriors, mucho swordplay, giant white apes, and on and on. As is usual for these books, the amount of action that Burroughs packs into a small compass is quite surprising. Whereas previous Carter books seem to read more like fantasy/fairy tales than science fiction, this installment veers even more to the fantastic, mainly in the use of those phantom warriors just mentioned. These bowmen are called up from the minds of the remaining members of the lost city of Lothar, and have no "real" concrete existence. However, their arrows can still kill. In this book we also get, for the first time, a nice, detailed look at life in Helium; what the people do, how they live and the like. We also receive a biological explanation of how Carthoris, who was 10 years old but a seeming adult in the previous books, got to be that way. The worldwide peace that apparently prevails at the end of book 3, "The Warlord of Mars," is shown in this volume to be not as widespread as was inferred, which makes for some nice tense situations. So this is a good, fast-moving, detailed entry in the series.
There are some minor problems of inconsistency and fuzzy writing, however, although not as prevalent as in previous entries. For example, in one scene, Carthoris is said to be fighting a force of a dozen Dusarians; three of these are killed, and so three are left. Huh? Carthoris seems to know exactly where to find water in the dead city of Aaanthor, despite the fact that he has never been there before. Wha? Vas Kor, one of Carthoris' chief enemies, fails to recognize him merely because Carthoris is dirty, tired and covered with blood; this is just a bit hard to swallow. Perhaps worst of all, the book ends extremely abruptly, just as all of Barsoom is about to be plunged into that world war. We never learn the fate of several of the main villains, nor do we see the end of hostilities as the realization of the true facts becomes known. This is a short book, and would not have suffered by the addition of such scenes to make it more satisfying. Still, this is a fun entry in the John Carter series, one that all lovers of fast-moving fantasy should enjoy.
Rating: 1
Summary: Great book - TERRIBLE edition
Comment: Don't take the star rating wrong - this is as good as any of the other books in this series, but this edition (Quiet Vision Publishing - paperback, printed in 2000) is the cheapest printing of a book I've ever seen. Only about 20 pages into it, pages started falling out of the back. The type is huge and goes all the way to the edge of the page so your thumbs are constantly in the way while you're trying to read, and there are typographical errors like using two hyphens instead of em dashes. I know they make an electronic version of this book. As part of my job I convert a lot of print-intended content to digital publishing formats, and that's what usually happens to em dashes during that process, so I almost wonder if they just printed out their digital version and bound it. It looks like it was printed on a laser printer (especially the terrible cover illustration which looks like it was drawn by a 12-year old), and the fonts look like they're just PC-standard 'Times'. There are also several footnotes, which in the original edition that I read years ago were placed at the bottom of the page they were referenced from. In this edition they're in the back of the book.
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the Better Mars Books
Comment: More similar in its simplicity to a Princess of Mars than Gods/Warlord. John Carter's son engages in search for abducted Thuvia, while he remains the prime suspect in her abduction. Usual strange meetings and stranger neighborhoods, but this story is a little less frenentic than Gods/Warlord, and both Carthoris and Thuvia are solid characters.
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Title: The Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs ISBN: 1576466248 Publisher: Quiet Vision (Duplicate of QVIS9). Pub. Date: August, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: Warlord of Mars (Martian Tale of Edgar Rice Burroughs, No 3) by Edgar Rice Burroughs ISBN: 0345324536 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: July, 1992 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs ISBN: 0345331389 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: January, 1990 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs ISBN: 0345324390 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: January, 1991 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Fighting Man of Mars (Martian Tales of Edgar Rice Burroughs, No 7) by Edgar Rice Burroughs ISBN: 0345345118 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: December, 1993 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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