Gods of Mars » (Reissue)

John Taliaferro is the author of "Tarzan Forever: The Life of Edgar Rice Burroughs," "Creator of Tarzan" and "Great White Fathers: The Story of the Obsessive Quest to Create Mount Rushmore," He lives in Texas and Montana.

When John Carter is transported once more to Mars, he is trapped in the hellish 'Eden' of the tyrannical Gods of Mars. With his beloved Dejah Thoris gone, John Carter must somehow escape the realm from which none return.

One of the most profound early influences on the science fiction and fantasy genre, Edgar Rice Burroughs is now most famous for his Tarzan series, although he wrote many tales that have captured the imaginations of generations of readers, including the Martian adventures of the Barsoom sequence, of which this book is the second, the Pellucidar sequence, and the stories of Carson on Venus.