Masters of the Pit: Or Barbarians of Mars

By Michael Moorcock

Book Overview

Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champion returns in the form of Michael Kane, a brilliant Earthman stranded on the treacherous deserts of Ancient Mars In this sweeping, epic sword-and-planet adventure in the tradition of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Kane and his blue giant companion Hool Haji must travel to the far reaches of the Red Planet to halt the hideous Green Death, an unstoppable disease that rots the mind as well as the body. From gorgeous Karnala, City of Green Mists, to the empty streets of tainted Cend-Amrid to the forgotten weird-science laboratories of the lost, highly advanced Yaksha culture, Masters of the Pit promises stunning locales, disgusting Martian creatures, and relentless action from the Nebula and World Fantasy Award-winning creator of Elric of Melnibon

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1601251041
• ISBN13: 9781601251046
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Paizo Inc.
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher

Customer Reviews

Super Reader

Better than the middle book, and a little longer. Kane has perfected his Martian matter transmitter, so can travel at will. Something he is pleased about. Some primitive species has opened a biological weapon that the ancient alien super race has left behind. This is turning people into monomaniacal half-zombie types, and eventually killing them. Many adventures happen to try and solve this, with an amusing twist at the end. Much of it accompanied by his friend Hool Hadj. Oh, and a few jokes thrown in, in passing through a certain area, some of the geographical features are S'sdla, Nosirrah and Golana, not to mention Modnaf. Not that I would have ever used this technique to name places in a game, or anything! :)

THIS IS A BOOK BY MICHAEL MOORCOCK AND NOT "NORMAN"

Originally published under the pen-name of Edward P. Bradbury as Barbarians of Mars. Now called Masters of the Pit."The green-death started in Cend-Amrid, turning that once-lovely city into a plague spot, source of a deadly infection that swept Mars and turned men into mindless automatons. And Michael Kane had to find the cure-or perish along with the rest of the adopted planet he loved!"