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Over the years I have accumulated a lot of 6mm ancients figures. I have boxes of them, painted and unpainted, many of them from the days when I played WRG 7th Edition and early incarnations of DBM. They are a mix of early Dark Ages armies, and various enemies of the Early Imperial Roman list, plus the Romans themselves. Since those days I have rebased them for DBA 2.0, but never got too far with that, and also HOTT, which gave me many neat little games if you could live with some of the troop classification issues.Now we're enjoying DBA 3.0 I though I'd look at putting together proper armies for it. As it is I can field a umber of armies straight out of the box, but what I wanted to look at was all of the options. And they are considerable. Whilst a DBA army consists of twelve elements, if you want all of the options in a typical army you need a few more than that.
This isn't true in all cases - my Early Saxons have no options at all. But some armies offer a fair bit of choice. So I picked three today, looked at what I had and set about finding figures to do as many options as were feasible.First up we have the Parthians. This is one with a lot of options, because whilst you not only have choice as to how you mix the light horse and the cataphracts, there are various infantry options you can go for as well. To be able to field any legal Parthian army you actually need 23 elements. I decided to skip the regular auxilia for now (as I couldn't find any suitable figures, although I have some ideas), and just went for this.
2012 map of Barsoom by Oberon ZellCreated byGenreInformationTypeEthnic group(s), Warhoons, Torquas, Thurds; Orovars, Lotharians, ThernsRace(s)Red Martians, Green Martians, Yellow Martians, White Martians, Black Martians (First Born)Notable locationsHelium, Zodanga, Ptarth, Gathol, Tanoolian Marshes, Valley Dor, OkarNotable characters,Barsoom is a fictional representation of the planet created by American author. The first Barsoom tale was serialized as Under the Moons of Mars in 1912, and published as a novel as in 1917. Ten followed over the next three decades, further extending his vision of Barsoom and adding other characters. The first five novels are in the in U.S., and the entire series is free around the world on, but the books are still under in most of the rest of the world.The Barsoom series, where in the late 19th century is mysteriously transported from Earth to a Mars suffering from dwindling resources, has been cited by many well known science fiction writers as having inspired them.
Elements of the books have been adapted by many writers, in novels, short stories, comics, television and film. Contents.Series Burroughs began writing the Barsoom books in the second half of 1911, and produced one volume a year between 1911 and 1914; seven more were produced between 1921 and 1941.: 229 The first Barsoom tale was serialized in The All-Story magazine as Under the Moons of Mars (1912), and then published in hardcover as the complete novel (1917). The final Barsoom tale was a novella, Skeleton Men of Jupiter, published in in February 1943.: 101Collectively, this series of novels has been referred to as the Martian Series. John Carter.: Captain John Carter is an Earthman, who originated in Virginia. He fought in the American Civil war on the Confederate side.: 177 After the war he moved to the southwest US to work as a prospector. In 1866 he and his prospector partner struck it rich, but the partner was killed by American Indians and Carter took refuge in a cave, where he was overcome by smoke produced by an American Indian woman, and woke up on Mars. He effectively disappeared for ten years while on Mars, and was believed dead, but re-emerged in New York in 1876, settling on the Hudson.
He appeared to die in 1886, leaving instructions for Burroughs, who refers to him as an 'uncle', to entomb him in a crypt, and leaving Burroughs with the manuscript of with instructions not to publish it for another 21 years.: 96 He has no memory before the age of 30 and seems never to age. He is adept with command, horsemanship, swords and all weapons. He is 6'2' tall, with black hair and steel-gray eyes.: 177 He is honorable, courageous and eternally optimistic, even in the face of certain death.: 21 He is transported to the planet by a form of.
There, he encounters both formidable alien creatures and various warring Martian races, wins the hand of Martian princess, and rises to the position of Warlord of Mars. Protagonist of the first three novels. Carter also headlines the eighth, tenth and eleventh books, and is a major secondary character in the fourth and ninth novels.: The central character in. Paxton is a soldier in the who is transported to Barsoom after he is mortally wounded, and becomes the assistant of scientist Ras Thavas.Martians.: A Princess of Helium; courageous, chaste, and resourceful despite frequent abduction by villains. The daughter of Mors Kajak, Jed (prince or king) of Lesser Helium and granddaughter of Tardos Mors, Jeddak (king or emperor) of Helium, she is highly aristocratic and fiercely proud of her heritage.: 28–29 She is introduced early in the first Barsoom novel, and is the love interest of.: 22She is a central character in the first three novels, and her capture by various enemies, and subsequent pursuit by, is a constant motivating force in these tales. She is a minor character in and.: A Green Martian warrior unusually compassionate among his people, who befriends and fights many battles at his side. John Carter's descendants.
Carthoris: Son of and, who inherits his father's superior strength. A minor character in. A principal character in and love interest of Thuvia.: 182.
Tara of Helium: Impetuous daughter of and, who runs away and gets involved in various perilous situations as a principal character in. Love interest of Gahan of Gathol and mother of.: 183. Llana of Gathol: Granddaughter of and and daughter of Tara of Helium and Gahan of Gathol; a principal character in the stories collected in.Environment While Burroughs' Barsoom tales never aspired to anything other than, his vision of was loosely inspired by speculation of the time, especially that of, that saw the planet as a formerly world now becoming less hospitable to life due to its advanced age. Living on an aging planet, with dwindling resources, the inhabitants of Barsoom have become hardened and warlike, fighting one another to survive.: 94 Once a wet world with continents and oceans, Barsoom's seas gradually dried up, leaving it a dry planet of highlands interspersed with moss-covered dead sea bottoms. Line the former coasts. The last remnants of the former bodies of water are the Great Toonolian Marshes and the Lost Sea of Korus.Barsoomians distribute their scarce water supplies via a worldwide system of, controlled by quarreling city-states at the junctures thereof. The idea of Martian 'canals' stems from telescopic observations by 19th century astronomers who, beginning with in 1877, believed they saw networks of lines on the planet.
Schiaparelli called them canali, meaning 'channels' but mistranslated in English as 'canals'. During the time Burroughs wrote his first Barsoom stories, the theory was put forward by a number of prominent scientists, notably, that these were huge engineering works constructed by an intelligent race. This view, though utterly false as is now known, inspired much science fiction. The thinning Barsoomian atmosphere is artificially replenished by an 'atmosphere plant' on whose function all life on the planet is dependent.: 205The Martian year comprises 687 Martian days, each of which is 24 hours and 37 minutes long. (Burroughs presumably derived this from the figures published by Lowell, but erroneously substituted the number of 24-hour Earth days in the Martian year, rather than the number of 24.6-hour, which is only 669.) The days are hot (again known to be false) and the nights are cold, and there appears to be little variation in climate across the planet except at the poles.: 230–292Burroughs explained his ideas about the Martian environment in an article 'A Dispatch on Mars' published in the in 1926.
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He assumed that Mars was formerly identical to the Earth; therefore a similar evolutionary development of fauna would have taken place. A four armed Green Martian on his thoat, as represented in the original 1920 edition of Thuvia, Maid of Mars.The Green Martians are 15 feet (4.6 m) tall (males) and 12 feet (3.7 m) tall (females), have two arms, two legs and two intermediary limbs that can be used as either arms or legs at will. Their eyes are mounted at the side of their heads and can move independently of each other in order to see in two directions at once. They are nomadic, warlike and barbaric, do not form families, have little concept of friendship or love and enjoy inflicting torture upon their victims. Their social structure is highly communal and rigidly hierarchical, consisting of various levels of chiefs, with the highest office of Jeddak obtained by mortal combat.The Green Men are primitive, intellectually unadvanced, do not have any kind of art and are without a written language.
While they manufacture edged weapons, any advanced technology they possess, such as 'radium pistols', is stolen from raids upon the Red Martians. They inhabit the ancient ruined cities left behind by civilizations which lived on Barsoom during a more advanced and hospitable era in the planet's history. They apparently arose from a biological experiment which went awry and as with all other Martians, they are an egg-laying species, concealing their eggs in incubators until hatching., who befriends when he first arrives on Barsoom, is an unusual exception from the typical ruthless Green Martian, due to having known the love of his own mate and daughter.: 96: 2In the novels, the Green Martians are often referred to by the names of their hordes, which in turn take their names from the abandoned cities they inhabit. Thus the followers of Tars Tarkas, based in the ruined ancient city of Thark, are known as '. Other hordes bear the names of Warhoon, Torquas, and Thurd.Yellow Martians Okarians Yellow Martians are supposedly extinct, but in they are found hiding in secret domed cities at the North Pole of Mars. At the time John Carter arrives on Barsoom, the Yellow Race is known only in old wives' tales and campfire stories.The only means of entrance to the Okarians' city is through The Carrion Caves, which are every bit as unpleasant as the name suggests. Air travel over the barrier is discouraged through the use of a great magnetic pillar called 'The Guardian of the North,' which draws fliers of all sizes inexorably to their doom as they collide with the massive structure.Their cities are domed hothouses which keep out the cold, but outdoors they favor orluk furs and boots.
Physically they are large and strong, and the men usually wear bristling black beards.: 98: 2 White Martians Orovars The White Martians, known as 'Orovars', were rulers of Mars for 500,000 years, with an empire of sophisticated cities with advanced technology. They were white-skinned, with blond or auburn hair. They were once a seafaring race, but when the oceans began to dry up they began to cooperate with the Yellow and Black Martians to breed the Red Martians, foreseeing the need for hardy stock to cope with the emerging harsher environment. They became decadent and 'overcivilized'. At the beginning of the series they are believed to be extinct, but three remaining populations - the Orovars, Therns and Lotharians – are still living in secret and are discovered as the books progress.: 95–101 Lotharians The Lotharians are a remnant population of the original White Martians, which appear only in. There are only 1000 of them remaining, all of them male. They are skilled in telepathy, able to project images that can kill, or provide sustenance.
They live a reclusive existence in a remote area of Barsoom, debating philosophy amongst themselves.: 98–99 Therns Descendants of the original White Martians who live in a complex of caves and passages in the cliffs above the Valley Dor. This is the destination of the River Iss, on whose currents most Martians eventually travel, on a pilgrimage seeking final paradise, once tired of life or reaching 1000 years of age. The valley is actually populated by monsters, overlooked by the Therns (who control these creatures) and ransack and eat the flesh of those who perish, enslaving those who survive. They consider themselves a unique creation, different from other Martians.
They maintain the false Martian religion through a network of collaborators and spies across the planet. They are themselves raided by the Black Martians. They are white-skinned (of a skin tone close enough to human Caucasians that John Carter was able to easily pose as one) and the males are bald but wear blond wigs.: 97 Black Martians (First Born) Legend suggests that the Black Martians are inhabitants of one of the moons of, when in fact they live in an underground stronghold near the south pole of the planet, around the submartian Sea of Omean, below the Lost Sea of Korus, where they keep a large aerial navy. They call themselves the 'First-Born', believing themselves to be a unique creation among Martian races, and worship Issus, a woman who styles herself as the God of the Martian religion but is no such thing.
They frequently raid the White Martian Therns, who maintain the false Martian religion, carrying off people as slaves. John Carter defeats their navy in.: 97 Others Kaldanes and Rykors introduces the of the region, whose form is almost all head but for six spiderlike legs and a pair of, and whose racial goal is to evolve even further towards pure and away from bodily existence. In order to function in the physical realm, they have bred the, a complementary species composed of a body similar to that of a perfect specimen of Red Martian but lacking a head; when the Kaldane places itself upon the shoulders of the Rykor, a bundle of tentacles connects with the Rykor's, allowing the brain of the Kaldane to interface with the body of the Rykor. Should the Rykor become damaged or die, the Kaldane merely climbs upon another as an earthling might change a horse.: 95–101 Kangaroo Men A lesser people of Barsoom are the Kangaroo Men of Gooli, so called due to their large, -like tails, ability to hop large distances and the rearing of their eggs in pouches.
They are presented as a race of boastful, cowardly individuals.: 591 Their is not highly developed; they are devout cowards and petty thieves, who value (aside from their lives) only a 'treasure' consisting of pretty stones, etc.Hormads In addition to the naturally occurring races of Barsoom, Burroughs described the Hormads, artificial men created by the scientist Ras Thavas as slaves, workers, warriors, etc. In giant vats at his laboratory in the in and 'John Carter and the Giant of Mars'. Although the Hormads were generally recognizable as humanoid, the process was far from perfect, and generated monstrosities ranging from the occasional misplaced nose or eyeball to ' a great mass of living flesh with an eye somewhere and a single hand.' Technology When Burroughs wrote the first volume of the Barsoom series, aviation and radio technology was in its infancy and radioactivity was a fledgling science. Despite this, the series includes a range of technological developments including radium munitions, battles between fleets of aircraft, devices similar to faxes and televisions, genetic manipulation, elements of and other ideas. One notable device mentioned is the 'directional compass'; this may be believed to be the precursor to the now-common ', or GPS for short. Martian flier on cover of The Gods of Mars.
Fliers The Red Martians have flying machines, both civilian transports and fleets of heavily armed war craft. These stay aloft through some form of, which Burroughs explains as relating to the rays of the Sun.: 95–101 Fliers travel at approximately 166.1 miles per hour (267.3 km/h) (450 Martian Haads per hour).: 170In, John Carter's son, Carthoris, invents what appears to be a partial precursor of the autopilot (several decades before it became a reality). The device, built upon existing Martian compass technology, allows the pilot to reach any programmed destination, having only to keep the craft pointed in the set direction. Upon arrival, the device automatically lowers the craft to the surface. He also includes a kind of collision detector, which uses radium rays to detect any obstacle and automatically steer the craft elsewhere until the obstacle is no longer detected.: 213 This device works in principle almost identically to the radiation detector used to fire the braking rockets on the space capsule.
In a flier with some kind of mechanical brain is introduced. Controlled by thought, it can be remote-controlled in flight, or instructed to travel to any destination.: 542 Weapons Firearms are common, and use 'Radium' bullets, which explode when exposed to sunlight. Some weapons are specific to races or inventors. The mysterious Yellow Martians, who live in secret glass-domed cities at the poles and appear in have a form of magnet which allows them to attract flying craft and cause them to crash. Scientist Phor Tak, who appears in, has developed a disintegrator ray, and also a paste which renders vehicles such as fliers impervious to its effects. He also develops a missile which seeks out craft protected in this fashion, and a means of rendering fliers invisible which becomes a key plot device in the novel.
However, while advanced weapons are available, most Martians seem to prefer melee combat — mostly with swords — and their level of skill is highly impressive. Warriors often are armed with four weapons (in descending order, pistol, long-sword, short sword and dagger) and it is considered unchivalrous to defend with any weapon but the one used in an attack (or a lesser one.): 95–101 Atmosphere plant There are many technological wonders in the novels, some colossal works of engineering. The failing air of the dying planet is maintained by an atmosphere plant, and the restoration of this is a plot component of.: 95–101 It is described as being 4 miles (6 km) across with walls 100 feet (30 m) in depth, and telepathically operated entrance doors of 20-foot-thick (6.1 m) steel.: 180 Medicine and biology Martian medicine is generally greatly in advance of that on Earth.: 25–26 Various 'ointments' and 'salves,' particularly as ascribed to the Green Martian women, are capable of healing all but instantly deadly wounds in a matter of hours—as first seen in. In aging genius Ras Thavas has perfected the means of transplanting organs, limbs and brains, which during his experiments he swaps between animals and humanoids, men and women and young and old.: 95–101 Later, in, he discovers the secret of life, and creates an army of artificial servants and warriors grown in giant vats filled with organic tissue.
They frequently emerge deformed, are volatile and are difficult to control, later threatening to take over the planet. Green Martian riding a thoat, as illustrated by in first edition of Thuvia, Maid of MarsThe martian mammalian equivalents all have fur, and both domestic and wild varieties are described by Burroughs.Domesticated.
Sorak: A small six-legged creature, equivalent to a cat. Calot: A large dog-like creature with a frog-like mouth and three rows of teeth and ten legs. John Carter has his own calot, named Woola, who is his faithful companion during most of and. Thoat: A Martian horse. It has four legs on each side of its body and a wide, flat tail, which is wider at the apex than at the base and which is extended while running.
The Greater Thoat is used as a mount by the Green Martians and stands about 10 feet (3.0 m) high at the shoulder; the Lesser Thoat bred by the Red Martians is closer to Earth horses in size. The Thoat is described as a slate-colored animal, with a white underside and yellow lower legs and feet. Zitidar: A draft animal, described as being similar to mastodons.Wild. Ulsio as illustrated by in first edition of Chessmen of Mars.
Apt: A large white-furred creature with six limbs, four being legs, which give it rapid speed, and two being arms with hairless hands, with which it grasps prey. It has tusks growing from its lower jawbone, and large faceted, insect-like eyes. Appears in.: 163.
Banth: A Barsoomian '. It hunts the hills surrounding the dead seas of Barsoom. It has a long, sleek body, with ten legs, and large jaws equipped with several rows of sharp fangs in a mouth which extends back almost to its small ears. It is mostly hairless, except for a thick mane around the neck. It has large, protruding green eyes.: 248–249.
Ulsio: A kind of Barsoomian ', described as a dog-sized burrower. White Ape: Huge and ferocious, semi-intelligent -like creatures with an extra set of arms, which first appear in.Other. Rykors are headless but otherwise human-like creatures bred by the Kaldanes, appearing only in.
Plant Men: Monsters found in the Valley Dor. They are between 10 and 12 feet (3.0 and 3.7 m) in height when upright, with hairless bodies similar in form to humans, excepting broad flat feet which are 3 feet (0.9 m) in length and a 6-foot (1.8 m) tail, which tapers from a round profile to a flat blade shape at the tip. They also have short, sinuous arms similar to elephant trunks, ending with taloned hands with mouths set in the palms.: 252–253 It also attacks and feeds upon Martian Pilgrims, who travel to the Valley Dor expecting to find final paradise.
Their faces are without mouths, with a nose like an open wound, a single white eye surrounded by a white band, and black hair 10 to 12 inches long, each strand similar in thickness to an earthworm. They appear in.: 252–253 The Plant Men have a mouth in the palm of each hand, with which they feed on tender vegetation (which they shear with their razor-sharp talons) or on the blood of their victims. After 'the defiling blood of life has been drawn' from a human by the Plant Men, the flesh may be eaten by the, another Barsoomian race.
Orluk: An Arctic predator with a black and yellow striped coat, whose legs are not described.Themes American frontier Barsoom might be seen as a kind of Martian. Is himself an adventuring frontiersman. When he arrives on Barsoom he first compares it to the landscape of which he has left behind.
He discovers a savage, frontier world where the civilized Red Martians are kept invigorated as a race by repelling the constant attacks of the Green Martians, a possible equivalent of Wild West ideals. Indeed, the Green Martians are a barbaric, nomadic, tribal culture with many parallels to stereotypes of. The desire to return to the frontier became common in the early 20th century America. As the become more urbanized, the world of the 19th century frontier America became romanticized as a lost world of freedom and noble qualities. Race Race is a constant theme in the Barsoom novels and the world is clearly divided along racial lines. Red, Green, White, Black, and Yellow races all appear across the novels, each with particular traits and qualities which seem to define the characters of the individuals. In this respect, Burroughs' concept of race, as depicted in the novels, is more like a division between species.
The Red and Green Martians are almost complete opposites of one another, with the Red Martians being civilized, lawful, capable of love and forming families, and the Green Martians being savage, cruel, tribal and without families or the ability to form romantic relationships. Yet, friendship between individuals of different nations and races is a frequent topic driving the stories.: 2 Religious deception The Barsoom series features a number of incidents of religious deception, or the use of superstition by those in power to control and manipulate others.: 28 Burroughs is particularly concerned about the hypocrisy of religious leaders.: 41 This is first established in,: 28 but becomes particularly apparent in the sequel,. Upon reaching 1,000 years of age almost all Martians undertake a pilgrimage on the River Iss, expecting to find a valley of mystical paradise; what they find is in fact a deathtrap, populated by ferocious creatures and overseen by a race of cruel, cannibal priests known as Therns, who perpetuate the Martian religion through a network of spies across the planet. John Carter's battle to track down the remnants of the Therns and their masters continues in the sequel,.: 98 More deceitful priests in a nation controlled by such appear in, on this occasion manipulating a temple idol to control followers.: 100Burroughs continued this theme in his many Tarzan novels.
Burroughs was not anti-religious; however, he was concerned about followers placing their trust in religions and being abused and exploited, and saw this as a common feature of organized religion.: 41 Excessive intellectualism While Burroughs is generally seen as a writer who produced work of limited philosophical sophistication, he wrote two Barsoom novels which appear to explore or parody the limits of excessive intellectual development at the expense of bodily or physical existence. The first was, in which Thuvia and Carthoris discover a remnant of ancient White Martian civilization, the Lotharians. The Lotharians have mostly died out, but maintain the illusion of a functioning society through powerful telepathic projections. They have formed two factions which appear to portray the excesses of pointless intellectual debate. One faction, the realists, believes in imagining meals to provide sustenance; another, the etherealists, believes in surviving without eating.is the second example of this trend. The Kaldanes have sacrificed their bodies to become pure brain, but although they can interface with Rykor bodies, their ability to function, compared with normal people of integrated mind and body, is ineffectual and clumsy. The Kaldanes, though highly intelligent, are ugly, ineffectual creatures when not interfaced with a Rykor body.
Tara of Helium compares them to effete intellectuals from her home city, with a self-important sense of superiority; and Gahan of Gathol muses that it might be better to find a balance between the intellect and bodily passions.: 29–30 Paradox of 'Superiority' Some of Barsoom's peoples, especially the Therns and First-Born, hold themselves as 'superior' to the 'lesser order' peoples on Barsoom. A paradox is established in that the Therns and First-Born, though they hold themselves in such high esteem, nonetheless are dependent on these lesser orders for their sustenance, labor, and goods. The Therns and First-Born are 'non-productive' peoples and do not produce anything or invent, as such labor is seen as beneath them. This is punctuated by the fact that the Therns and First-Born are obliged to create strongholds in the south polar regions, to insulate themselves from the remainder of the planet dominated primarily by red and green Martians. A particular ironic twist is introduced by the fact that the white Therns think that they control and manipulate the entire planet, when they are in turn unknowingly exploited by the black First-Born.Antecedents and influences on Burroughs Scientific inspiration. The arid, lifeless surface of Mars as seen by the Viking Probe.Burroughs' concept of a dying Mars and the follows the theories of Lowell and his predecessor. In 1878, Italian astronomer observed geological features on Mars which he called canali (: 'channels').
This was mistranslated into the English as 'canals' which, being artificial watercourses, fueled the belief that there was some sort of intelligent extraterrestrial life on the planet. This further influenced American astronomer.In 1895 Lowell published a book titled Mars which speculated about an arid, dying landscape, whose inhabitants had been forced to build canals thousands of miles long to bring water from the polar caps (now known to be mostly frozen carbon dioxide or 'dry ice') to irrigate the remaining arable land. Lowell followed with Mars and Its Canals (1906) and Mars as an Abode of Life (1908). These books formed prominent scientific ideas about the conditions on the red planet in the early years of the 20th century. Burroughs does not seem to have based his vision of Mars on precise reading of Lowell's theories, however, as a number of errors in his books suggest he got most of his information from newspaper articles and other popular accounts of Lowell's Mars.: 229–230The concept of canals with flowing water and a world where life was possible were later proved erroneous by more accurate observation of the planet. Later landings by American probes such as the two found a dead world too cold (and with far too thin an atmosphere) for water to exist in its fluid state.
Previous Mars fiction. Martians, escaping a dying Mars, invade Earth in The War of the Worlds.The first science fiction to be set on Mars may be, by Percy Greg, published in 1880, which concerned a civil war on Mars. Another Mars novel, dealing with benevolent Martians coming to Earth was published in 1897 by Kurd Lasswitz, Auf Zwei Planeten.
It was not translated until 1971, and was thus unlikely to have influenced Burroughs, although it did depict a Mars influenced by the ideas of Percival Lowell. Other examples are Mr.
Stranger's Sealed Packet (1889), which took place on Mars; Gustavus W. Popes's (1894); and Ellsworth Douglas's Pharaoh's Broker, in which the protagonist encounters an Egyptian civilization on Mars which, while parallel to that of the Earth, has evolved somehow independently.: 38H.G. Wells' novel, most definitely influenced by Lowell and published in 1898, did however create the precedent for a number of enduring Martian tropes in science fiction writing.
These include Mars being an ancient world, nearing the end of its life; being the home of a superior civilization, capable of advanced feats of science and engineering; and a source of invasion forces, keen to conquer the Earth. The first two tropes were prominent in Burroughs' Barsoom series. Burroughs, however, claimed never to have read any of H.G. Wells' books.: 38 Lowell was probably the greater direct influence on Burroughs.: 90–91claimed that Burroughs was influenced in writing his Martian stories by 's earlier novel (1905) (later retitled Gulliver of Mars). Gullivar Jones, who travels to Mars by flying carpet rather than via astral projection, encounters a civilization with similarities to those found on Barsoom, rescues a Martian Princess, and even undertakes a voyage down a river similar to the Iss in.
Lupoff also suggested that Burroughs derived characteristics of his main protagonist from Phra, hero of Arnold's (1890), who is also a swashbuckling adventurer and master swordsman for whom death is no obstacle. Lupoff's theories were disputed by numerous scholars of Burroughs' work; Lupoff countered, claiming that many of Burroughs' stories had antecedents in previous works and that this was not unusual for writers. Burroughs’ influence. This section appears to contain references to.
Please reorganize this content to explain the subject's impact on popular culture, to, rather than simply listing appearances. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( January 2017)Scientists Burroughs' Barsoom series was extremely popular with American readers and many scientists who grew up reading the novels, and helped inspire public support for the US space program. Readers included some of the first space pioneers and those involved in the search for life on other planets. Scientist read the books as a young boy, and they continued to affect his imagination into his adult years. He remembered Barsoom as a 'world of ruined cities, planet-girdling canals, immense pumping stations – a feudal technological society'. For two decades, a map of the planet, as imagined by Burroughs, hung in the hallway outside of Sagan's office in.: 132 The author so influenced real exploration of Mars that was named after him.
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