Edgar Rice Burroughs ~5 hr read

An invisible flier races to a mysterious city to rescue a kidnapped princess from a madman wielding 'The Death.'

Edgar Rice Burroughs's 1931 Barsoom novel follows Hadron of Hastor on a daring rescue across a Mars of invisibility rays, disintegrating weapons, and giant spiders, in the sword-and-planet mode Burroughs made immortal. Later-series Barsoom adventure, still packed with the breathless invention that launched a thousand imitators. Read it for pure red-planet spectacle from the master of planetary romance.

In its time

Published in 1931, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

~5 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

Roy G. Krenkel