![]() And the best of the imaginative writers of any generation is Edgar Rice Burroughs.ĭavid Bruce Version Copyright © 1996-2001, Revisions © 2003-2018Ĭopyright © 1982, 1996-2003 by David Bruce Bozarth. Give me Barsoom any day of the week! Get high on your own imagination. Nowadays it seems that most fantasies involve two or more of the opposite sex, a kilo of coke in a locked room or something else artificial. I'm just a plain old Texas boy who likes a little fantasy when he can. I am not a scholar, so don't look for scholarly work. I felt it was necessary to do this research independently to avoid having their influences or observations obstructing my compilation and comments. Others have done authoritative works on Barsoom but I have not read them as of yet. When I began work on Dead Cities of Mars in 1982 I re-read the entire series and took notes. I first read the Martian series between 19. When it is I hope you will enjoy it-until then my research produced a rather handy glossary of Barsoomian facts which should interest old and new fans of Burroughs' adventure tales set on the planet Mars. Perhaps my manuscript Dead Cities of Mars will be available one day. What originally started as research to write a Barsoomian Spoof soon became an obsession to detail Edgar Rice Burroughs' wondrous Martian Saga. This website is the most up-to-date version. the first book in the Barsoom series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs. To obtain an earlier version of A Barsoom Glossary in PDF format: right click Save As to keep a copy). Don Jon Edit Poster of Don Jon Don Jon is a 2013 American romantic comedy-drama. Illustrations by various, including the author. Quotes from the works by Edgar Rice Burroughs are either in Quotes, Italics, or Blockquote format. ![]() Links are provided to other sections when applicable, but otherwise linking is kept to a minimum, each section is complete for presentation purposes. Footnotes (where applicable) are IN LINE with the appropriate paragraph. Our posters are produced on acid-free papers using archival inks to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss. Lists are usually presented in Alphabetical Order. Each section has internal navigation within itself, or one can return to this page to enter each section. There is a difference in the manner in which the two races treat the Thoats, Greens tend to treat them very cruelly. Naturally, the Greens use the much larger variety, and the reds use the smaller. That didn't happen however, since 1996 A BARSOOM GLOSSARY has become an internationally recognized on-line reference for the Martian works of Edgar Rice Burroughs.Ī Barsoom Glossary is presented in three major sections: People, Places, and Things. This is painting 5 in the Barsoom series, done to illustrate an article by Richard A. Domestication Both the Red and Green men of Barsoom have domesticated Thoats, for the purposes of food and transportation. This glossary began as a writing aid for my Dead Cities of Mars pastiche I once hoped to market via print channels. Click EXTRAS to see what is NEW at A BARSOOM GLOSSARY! You can see the rest of Purser’s sci-fi travel posters right here, and you can also order prints of them. I also love that each of the posters has recommendations for “similar destinations” - other destinations from similar or related works by other writers. (And if you were wondering, yes, Babylon 5’s nefarious Psi-Cop is indeed named after the writer.) Buy Poster Map - Mars/Barsoom (Kickstarter Exclusive) - Edgar Rice Burroughs from Chenault & Gray Publishing - part of our Novels & Comics collection. ![]() …or Alfred Bester’s outstanding The Stars My Destination. Anybody can toss together a poster for Star Wars’ Hoth or Dune’s Arrakis, but Purser dives into the deep cuts with posters for more obscure works such as Edwin Abbot’s Flatland… Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, and the alien homeworld from Robert Heinlein’s Starship Troopers.īut I also have to admire the artist for not just sticking with the obvious choices. ![]() There are plenty of well-known genre classics represented in Purser’s collection, such as the lunar Monolith from Arthur C. Shop affordable wall art to hang in dorms, bedrooms, offices, or anywhere blank walls aren't welcome. Disney’s John Carter certainly would have gotten more attention if they’d taken that approach… Unique Barsoom Backpack Posters designed and sold by artists. Then there’s the NSFW poster for Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Barsoom/Mars, which earns major nerd cred for showing off the Barsoomian disregard for clothing. I really like the little touches, like in the below poster for Stanislaw Lem’s Solaris, where the fine print notes that a return journey is “unavailable.” Strictly one-way when it comes to Solaris. Listing the writer who created the world in question as the “ticket provider” is clever, but We’ve seen this sort of thing done before, but there are several details in Purser’s work that I really like. ![]()
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