SEX AND SWORDPLAY ON MARS,
April 25, 2012 Christopher A. Fulkerson "Composer" (San Francisco) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Warlord of Mars 2012 Calendar (Calendar)
This is a fun calendar and I enjoy having it on the wall, but the iconography is not always clear and, as usual with these things, not wholly consistent with the books. This calendar is basically about flaunting sex and keeping violence in check, which is a reasonable agenda for the Burroughs Mars novels.
This year of 2012 is the anniversary of the publication of Edgar Rice Burroughs' first novel, which was A PRINCESS OF MARS, of the Mars books depicted here, and with the release in this Centennial of the Disney film JOHN CARTER it is good to get with the whole calendar business. There are a few Earth dates scattered throughout the Burroughs Mars novels, and other dates that it might be possible to deduce from the chain of events, taking into consideration the difference between the 24 hour Earth day and the 25 hour Martian day. Many of the novels begin with an Earth day and a story that keeps the first several days discrete, so it may be possible to speculate with some...Read more
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