Thuvia, Maid of Mars
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Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, McClurg, 1920
Thuvia, Maid of Mars is an Edgar Rice Burroughs science fiction novel, the fourth of his famous Barsoom series. Burroughs began writing it in April, 1914, and the finished story was first published in All-Story Weekly as a serial in three parts on April 8, 15, and 22, 1916. It was later published as a complete novel by A.C. McClurg in October, 1920.
Plot and Story Line
In this novel the focus shifts from John Carter and Dejah Thoris, protagonists of the first three books in the series, to their son Carthoris, prince of Helium, and to Thuvia, princess of Ptarth. Helium and Ptarth are both prominent Barsoomian city state/empires, and both Carthoris and Thuvia were secondary characters in the previous two books.The plot involves Carthoris' efforts to win the heart of Thuvia, who previously carried a torch for his father and initially will have none of him, though a romance between the two was foreshadowed at the end of the previous book. As Thuvia suffers the common Burroughsian heroine's fate of being kidnapped and in need of rescue, Carthoris' goal is abetted by circumstances. Throw in geopolitical complications between the two realms in which they are such conspicuous figures and an impending airship battle between the same, lost cities, savage creatures, and the fabulous phantom bowmen of Lothar, and you have the recipe for thrills, chills and high adventure of the best kind.
Trivia
The phantom bowmen of Lothar were likely an inspiration for decidedly non-phantom but equally legendary bowmen of Loh in Kenneth Bulmer's series of Dray Prescot planetary romances.Copyright
The copyright for this story has expired in the United States and, thus, now resides in the public domain there. The text is available via Project Gutenberg.|- style="text-align: center;"
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