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Edwin Lester Arnold

Gulliver of Mars

Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Feb. 3, 2018)
Lieut Gullivar Jones: His Vacation was the original title of the last novel by Edwin Lester Arnold. It was first published in 1905, however, when Ace Books reprinted Arnold's novel in 1964, it was retitled Gulliver of Mars.The novel combines elements of both fantasy and science fiction and is considered a precursor and likely inspiration to Edgar Rice Burroughs’s classic A Princess of Mars, which spawned the sword and planet genre. The concept of a military man going to Mars, exploring strange civilizations and falling in love with a princess had been explored as far back as Percy Greg’s Across the Zodiac (1880), but the connections between Gullivar and John Carter, the protagonist of Burroughs' Barsoom novels, are more numerous and stronger.Gullivar Jones is a military man in the United States Navy who arrive on Mars by apparently magical means and has numerous adventures there, including falling in love with Martian princesses. Gullivar stumbles in and out of trouble and never quite succeeds in mastering it. The fact that Gullivar does not quite defeat his enemies or get the girl in the end helps explain why Arnold's Martian saga was not as popular as Burroughs'.
ISBN
1985016745 / 9781985016743
Pages
241
Weight
15.0 oz.
Dimensions
6.0 x 0.6 in.

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