While he survives every near-death experience that follows, by the time he encounters the Princess again, she has been blackmailed into impending marriage to another man! Alas for Carter, he and the Princess are soon separated. Nothing for it but to rescue the Princess and escape from the savage (although honourable) Tharks. “Stay away!” or perhaps “Tharks are terrible neighbours.” This is some sort of a message to her people. Carter falls in love with her on first sight. Dejah Thoris, princess of the city state of Helium, is not just humanoid: she’s beautiful. Despite being much smaller than the Tharks, he can more than hold his own.Ĭarter discovers other Barsoomians far more like humans in appearance when the Tharks attack a scientific mission unfortunate enough to cross their path. Not only is Carter an hardened veteran, his muscles are adapted to gravity many times that of Barsoom. Although not inclined towards charity or other soft sentiments, the Tharks value combat prowess. Wandering across Barsoom’s desolate expanse, Carter encounters and is adopted by a band of Tharks, green-skinned, six-limbed barbarians. Cornered by a Native American warband, death seems inevitable … but as is the way of portal series, Carter finds himself transported to an entirely unfamiliar world.Ĭarter is on dying Mars, or as its inhabitants call it, Barsoom. Having fought on the losing side of the Slavers’ Uprising, Captain John Carter heads west to see what he can steal from North America’s indigenous population. 1912’s A Princess of Mars is the first book in Edgar Rice Burroughs’ interminable Barsoom series.
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