''John Carter of Mars'' is the eleventh and final book in the '' Barsoom'' series by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs. It is not a novel, but rather a collection of two ''John Carter of Mars'' stories. The first story was originally published in 1940 by Whitman as a Better Little Book entitled ''John Carter of Mars''. Although credited to Edgar Rice Burroughs, it was written (and illustrated) by his son,

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and was later expanded and re-published in the January issue of ''

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'' in 1941 as "John Carter and the Giant of Mars", the name it goes under in the collection. The second story, "Skeleton Men of Jupiter", was first published in ''

'' in 1943. Intended as the first in a series of novelettes to be later collected in book form, in the fashion of ''

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'', it ends with the plot unresolved, and the intended sequels were never written. Several other writers have written pastiche endings for the story. The first edition of ''John Carter of Mars'' (a title that Burroughs never used for any book in the '' Barsoom'' series) was published in 1964 by Canaveral Press, fourteen years after his death.

Reception

This book is not highly regarded by fans of the '' Barsoom'' series and is generally considered something of an afterthought. However, in the book '' Master of Adventure: The Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs'', Richard A. Lupoff, the editor of the 1964 Canaveral Press edition of ''John Carter of Mars'', writes that it is interesting for its contrast between "real" Burroughs (''Skeleton Men of Jupiter'') and "ersatz" Burroughs (''John Carter and the Giant of Mars'').

Copyright

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for this book has expired in Australia, and thus now resides in the

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there. The text is available via

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References

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