Edgar Rice Burroughs 3 hr 5 min read

Earthman Ulysses Paxton is transported to Barsoom and apprenticed to Ras Thavas, the master mind of Mars, a brilliant, amoral surgeon who transplants living brains between bodies.

Edgar Rice Burroughs's 1927 novel is a rousing entry in the beloved Barsoom series. Vivid, thrilling, imaginative. Read it for classic Martian adventure, a new Earthman hero, the coldly genius surgeon Ras Thavas, brain-swapping intrigue, and a daring rescue, in one of the most inventive and memorable of Burroughs's John Carter–universe tales.

In its time

Published in 1927, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

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