Carter explores deeper and further into the planet's far flung regions and discovers all manner of fantastic creatures who he has to vanquish to gain the title of Warlord of Mars. In Warlord of Mars, the hero, John Carter's mission is to rescue his wife Princess Dejah Thoris who has been imprisoned by the evil Goddess Issus. John Carter an American Civil War veteran travels to Mars, engages in fierce battles for supremacy with various denizens of the Red Planet and falls in love with and marries one of its lovely inhabitants.
#BARSOOM CHRONICLES SERIES#
The Barsoom series is based on the expedition of Earthmen to Mars by a mysterious method of transportation that involves astral projection. Tarzan was converted into a bestselling comic strip, film rights were sold, Tarzan theme parks and merchandise were planned. Burroughs was also extremely media savvy and far ahead of his time about marketing his work. He influenced “more serious” writers to explore the world of Sci-Fi writing. Though literary critics carped at what they called “pulp fiction” Burroughs' influence on generations of young people in search of excitement and adventure is undeniable.
His work covered several genres including science fiction, adventure tales, historical sagas and Westerns. They were later compiled into book form and were hugely popular in their day.Įdgar Rice Burroughs, known more famously as the creator of the Lord of the Jungle, Tarzan, was an extremely prolific American writer who churned out potboilers by the hundreds. The stories first appeared in serialized form in various magazines like All-Story, Argosy, Amazing Stories and The Blue Book. “Barsoom” is the native word for Mars in the Martian language. In the Barsoom series, Mars, assumed to be older than Earth, is a dying planet. It was the third book in an eleven part series known as the Barsoom Chronicles which relate to a sequence of exciting adventure tales set on the fictional planet of Barsoom. Dynamite Comics Warlord of Mars uses a generic font called Gobbledygook, originally created by Richard Starking's Comicraft back in 2004 for use in Kurt Busiek's Astro City.Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs was first published in 1913.For the Disney film, a linguist was hired to expand the language, and a written language was made reportedly based on actual markings found on the surface of Mars.John Carter: A Novelization/ Disney's John Carter There has been various non-canonical contributions to the spoken and written languages of Barsoom, while none of this information can be considered canon in any way the information is important to note. The below information is not from the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs and therefore isn't considered canon. Warrior (Applies to a soldier or sailor). When spoken it may be accompanied by the Martian salute of both hands raised above the head with palms forward. Prince, term exclusive to the First Born. Written languages are highly varied on Mars, no two nations share the same written language, and often cities of a nation have a written language that differs greatly from that of the nation to which they belong. Martian writing is different than the language spoken. It has grown with the growth of the planet’s learning and scientific achievements, but so ingenious a thing it is that new words to express new thoughts or describe new conditions or discoveries form themselves-no other word could explain the thing that a new word is required for other than the word that naturally falls to it, and so, no matter how far removed two nations or races, their spoken languages are identical. It is spoken today by every race and nation, just as it was at the beginning of human life upon Barsoom.
The Lotharians use a slightly different language however, it is still entirely understandable by Carthoris and Thuvia and thus likely the rest of Barsoom as well. The only place on Mars rumored to have a different language is at the end of the River Iss in the Valley Dor, the Therns and the First Born both use the same language as the rest of the planet, however the First Born seem to be the origin of this other language, as Xodar is noted as speaking in a strange tongue to other members of his race.
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