I was going to read a few pages to get the gist of it and three hours later… I found your book Return to Barsoom through Jeff Doten’s Barsoomia website on Thursday but didn’t have a quiet time to sit down and read until last night. I hope you enjoy the book, and I look forward to your comments.
Part of the completion process involved editing and rewriting certain parts of the first 14 chapters. 40-something guy invariably cringes at the exuberance… of 20-something guy. Writing a book from your mid 20s to your mid 40s is not for the faint of heart. The rest of the book was written in September 2009. A few years later we were up to the end of 18. By 2000, I was near the end of chapter 14 and there it stayed. Not being the most focussed young man, work continued off and on for a number of years. The juxtaposition of the two worlds I thought would help make Barsoom’s world more accessible to new readers, and for people who knew Barsoom the challenge to their assumptions would bring a freshness to their experience. The final idea was to reconcile ERB’s Barsoom (his name for Mars), with what we know about Mars in the real world. I wanted female characters to be just as important as the male ones. Carter worshipped her like no other, to be sure, but did they sit down and talk for a couple of pages? No. Sure, he’s a hero, but does he need to be flawless? It’s a lot more fun to play off his failings and weaknesses.Ĭarter’s princess, Dejah Thoris, was always kidnapped as a plot device to give Carter something to quest after, but she never did a whole lot of talking. But I didn’t buy the idea that the heroic man needed to be superior to all he met. Strange aliens and weird customs, all good. The spirit of adventure – of not giving up in the face of insurmountable odds – that could stay. My other work was in comics, and that period of comics was all about deconstruction and reexamination of the form, so it followed if I was going to write a John Carter novel it would in part address what I felt would respect the source material while bringing it into the present. It was also a bit of a young man rejecting his childhood heroes that led me to look at the material with a critical eye. It is his rightful place in the order of things. The educated western man will invariably triumph and rule over savages.
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Both series of books are in the genre of colonial fiction. Rereading the stories as an adult in the late 1980s, some of the underlying assumptions in Tarzan and John Carter were out of place in today’s world. Whatever Burroughs may have lacked in subtlety in his writing, his stories were always imaginative and rich with detail. I continued on to read ERB’s other works, which included the Carter books. When I began reading the Tarzan books I was 12 or 13, and I thought they were fantastic. KF8/MOBI is the older Kindle format, for less than v5.8īurroughs is one of the best of the early science fiction writers who started out in pulp magazines. KFX is the current Kindle format, for v5.8 and greater EPUB is for iOS, Kobo, Nook and many other programs and devices
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