Publisher's Synopsis
A Princess of Mars is a technology fable novel by using American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first of his Barsoom series. It turned into first serialized inside the pulp magazine All-Story Magazine from February-July, 1912. Full of swordplay and daring feats, the novel is taken into consideration a traditional instance of 20th-century pulp fiction. It is also a seminal example of the planetary romance, a subgenre of technology myth that became pretty popular in a long time following its guide. Its early chapters additionally incorporate elements of the Western. The story is set on Mars, imagined as a dying planet with a harsh desolate tract surroundings. This imaginative and prescient of Mars became based on the work of the astronomer Percival Lowell, whose ideas have been broadly popularized within the overdue 19th and early 20th centuries.