Series
Barsoom
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Rob Dorsey, Geary Gravel, Ann Tonsor Zeddies, Stuart Moore, Austin Grossman, Bebe Balocca, Catherynne M. Valente, Chris Claremont, Chuck Dixon, David Barr Kirtley, Garth Nix, Genevieve Valentine, Joe R. Lansdale, John Coleman Burroughs, John Joseph Adams, Jonathan Maberry, L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Mike Resnick, Peter S. Beagle, Robin Wasserman, S. M. Stirling, Theodora Goss, Tobias S. Buckell & William Gilmour · 20 novels · 9 novellas · 3 novelettes · 16 short stories · 3 collections · 2 anthologies · 1917–2025
Barsoom is a fictional representation of the planet Mars created by American pulp fiction author Edgar Rice Burroughs. The first Barsoom tale was serialized as Under the Moons of Mars in pulp magazine The All-Story from February to July 1912 and published compiled as a novel as A Princess of Mars in 1917. It features John Carter, a late-19th-century American Confederate veteran who is mysteriously transported from Earth to the dying world of Mars where he meets and romances the beautiful Martian princess Dejah Thoris. Ten sequels followed over the next three decades, further extending his vision of Barsoom and adding other characters.
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The order the books came out.
- The Barsoom Pentalogy(5 works)
- Omnibus editions(23 editions)
Map
Barsoom at the centre, 1 subseries around it, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
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By decade
- 1910s3
- 1920s4
- 1930s2
- 1940s9
- 1950s0
- 1960s3
- 1970s0
- 1980s0
- 1990s0
- 2000s1
- 2010s26
- 2020s5
Shape
20 novels · 9 novellas · 3 novelettes · 16 short stories · 3 collections · 2 anthologies
25 authors
reads like:science fictionaliensmarstimeless or unspecifiedadventurousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 98% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book49 of 53 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Tyrant Queen of Marsdarkest · most intense
- Llana of Gatholbrightest · calmest