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Post by deuce on Sept 3, 2016 0:29:37 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Sept 11, 2016 14:22:24 GMT -5
Wacky Alice Cooper video with great art:
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Post by finarvyn on Oct 3, 2016 19:08:02 GMT -5
One place I thought where Burroughs dropped the ball a little bit with Warlord is there is no framing sequence like the other two books (I agree completely with the criticism that there are too many forced separations and coincidences). We're left to wonder how Uncle Jack finished the story to his nephew. In a way, the end sequence of the movie is the closing act Warlord never had. I'm glad you commented on this, because the John Carter never seems to get any love and I think that some of the story arcs therein are well written (even if they don't quite match ERB's storyline). I agree that Warlord seemed to be missing something and I never quite put my finger on it until reading your post.  |
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Post by themirrorthief on Oct 3, 2016 19:14:40 GMT -5
The Mastermind of Mars is an excellent work. IMO its a better version of The Island Of DR Moreau...I read these one after the other and I def liked Mastermind better. Another really excellent Burroughs work is called The Lost Continent? I really enjoyed it...there is an audio version on Librivox...good stuff. Prowling though my vast book collection I came upon a space opera by Burroughs, cant recall the name but I got to read that one soon...looks good.
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Post by deuce on Oct 3, 2016 19:24:15 GMT -5
Thanks Jason. I enjoyed hearing your perspective. Wonder if anyone has written any Gor Hajus fanfic? Thanks, VonK, glad you enjoyed it. I'm curious myself to see if Gor Hajus shows up in anymore of the Barsoom books. I'll probably wait a while until I read A FIGHTING MAN OF MARS, though. As I recall, TMMoM was Gor's only appearance. I really enjoyed A Fighting Man of Mars. One of my first Barsoom novels.  |
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Post by deuce on Oct 14, 2016 19:36:52 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Nov 6, 2016 17:43:51 GMT -5
Anacleto's Dejah:  |
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Post by deuce on Nov 22, 2016 13:21:14 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Dec 20, 2016 19:36:27 GMT -5
On this date in 1996, Carl Sagan died at age 62. The astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, and author was also a big Burroughs/Barsoom fan. In 1973 he wrote: "The state of California was kind enough to give me an automobile license plate marked 'PHOBOS.' My car is not particularly sluggish, but it cannot circumnavigate our planet twice a day, either. The license plate pleases me. I would have preferred 'BARSOOM,' but there was a strictly enforced limit of six letters per license plate." “The Mars novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs . . . aroused generations of eight-year-olds, myself among them, to consider the exploration of the planets as a real possibility.” (“Cosmos,” 1980) “I can remember as a child reading with breathless fascination the Mars novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs. I journeyed with John Carter, gentleman adventurer from Virginia, to ‘Barsoom,’ as Mars was known to its inhabitants.” (“Cosmos,” 1980) “I can remember spending many an hour in my boyhood…imploring what I believed to be Mars to transport me there.” (“Cosmos” 1980)  |
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Post by deuce on Dec 21, 2016 13:12:51 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Jan 15, 2017 19:18:56 GMT -5
Art by J. Scott Campbell:  |
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Post by deuce on Jan 17, 2017 18:56:24 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Feb 9, 2017 23:47:31 GMT -5
A cool video gallery of Barsoomian art:
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Post by ChrisLAdams on Feb 10, 2017 8:01:39 GMT -5
A cool video gallery of Barsoomian art: The Michael Whelan covers, in my mind at least, the most magically captured the wonder and vividness of landscape, character and architecture as described by Burroughs. Absolutely beautiful... |
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Post by emerald on Feb 10, 2017 10:11:08 GMT -5
A cool video gallery of Barsoomian art: The Michael Whelan covers, in my mind at least, the most magically captured the wonder and vividness of landscape, character and architecture as described by Burroughs. Absolutely beautiful... So true. Whelan is a phenomenon. Can't think of anybody else who basically said, "Stop giving me Hugo Awards." More to the point, you could make a pretty convincing argument that Whelan has given us the best depictions of both Burrroughs' Mars and Moorcock's Elric. Real benchmark stuff. |
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