Edgar Rice Burroughs ~5 hr read

Fleeing a Barsoomian storm, the willful princess Tara of Helium is blown into unknown lands, captive of the headless kaldanes, in a realm where men play living chess to the death.

Edgar Rice Burroughs's 1922 novel is a rousing entry in the Barsoom saga. Vivid, inventive, gloriously imaginative. Read it for classic ERB Mars, the daughter of John Carter amid the eerie kaldanes and the deadly game of Jetan, in one of the strangest and most colorful of the Martian adventures.

In its time

Published in 1922, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

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