Barsoom

Barsoom/Mars Series

A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, McClurg, 1917
A Princess of Mars The Gods of Mars The Warlord of Mars Thuvia, Maid of Mars The Chessmen of Mars The Master Mind of Mars A Fighting Man of Mars Swords of Mars Synthetic Men of Mars Llana of Gathol John Carter of Mars
Author	Edgar Rice Burroughs
Country	USA
Language	English
Published	1912–1948, 1964
No. of books	11

Barsoom
'A Princess of Mars' location
2012 map of Barsoom by Oberon Zell
Created by	Edgar Rice Burroughs
Genre	Planetary romance
In-universe information
Type	Planet
Ethnic group(s)	Tharks, Warhoons, Torquas, Thurds; Orovars, Lotharians, Therns
Race(s)	Red Martians, Green Martians, Yellow Martians, White Martians, Black Martians (First Born)
Locations	Helium, Zodanga, Ptarth, Gathol, Toonolian Marshes, Valley Dor, Okar
Characters	John Carter, Dejah Thoris, Tars Tarkas, Ulysses Paxton, Ras Thavas

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.

The Barsoom series, particularly the first novel, is universally considered a major influence on early science fiction. Junot Díaz writes:

The novel became a seminal text in the early science fiction canon, inspiring a slew of imitators and even a pair of related genres, the planetary romance and the sword-and-planetary, practiced by the likes of Leigh Brackett and Michael Moorcock and which you will still find examples of being written today.^[1]