The Gods of Mars: Annotated

By: Burroughs, Edgar Rice

The Gods of Mars is the second book in the Barsoom series. At the end of the first book, A Princess of Mars, John Carter is unwillingly transported back to Earth. The Gods of Mars begins with his arrival back on Barsoom (Mars) after a ten-year separation from his wife Dejah Thoris, his unborn child, and the Red Martian people of the nation of Helium, whom he has adopted as his own. Unfortunately, Carter materializes in the one place on Barsoom from which nobody is allowed to depart: the Valley Dor, which is the Barsoomian afterlife.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0939XCHP4
• ISBN13: 9798742555605
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Be sure to read "A Princess of Mars" first.

We last left John suffocating and wondering if we would ever see him again (except for those few intrepid people who dare to read ahead). "Twelve years passed since I laid the body of my great-uncle, Captain John Carter, of Virginia, away from the sight of men in that strange mausoleum in the old cemetery at Richmond." John returns to the Mars he never saw before, yet soon finds old friends and new adventures. Not everything is black and white as in the Saturday morning Cowboys. The story is a never-ending series of last-minute escapes until the very end when, well, read the book and find out. Once again, we get to kibitz.