Authors: Edgar Rice Rice Burroughs
ISBN-13: 9780957886858, ISBN-10: 0957886853
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Deodand Publishing
Date Published: August 2002
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875 1950) was the author of more than sixty books, including the immensely popular Tarzan adventures.
John Seelye is the author of numerous books on American literature and has edited the Penguin Classics edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, among others.
Burroughs's first published fiction was Under the Moons of Mars, a wild sf adventure about a man named John Carter who mysteriously finds himself on Mars. Later published in book form as A Princess of Mars (1917), it is arguably the most fun of the 11 Martian tales Burroughs eventually wrote, as almost everything in it is new and strange from the giant four-armed green Martians to the fantastic six-legged thoats. Tarzan may be Burroughs's most famous character, but his Mars stories are still widely read. With few audio versions of these works available, good unabridged recordings are sure to be in demand, so this is recommended for all fiction collections. However, if Blackstone plans further Mars recordings, it would be well advised to offer more energetic readings than that provided here by Dennis McKee, whose interpretations of Martian dialog sound too much like Tarzan introducing himself to Jane. Kent Rasmussen, Thousand Oaks, CA Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.