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A PRINCESS OF MARS (1978)
Acrylic on Illustration Board - 24” x 28”

I have a special fondness for The Martian Tales by Edgar Rice Burroughs, ever since I first read them in my early teens. 1/4

#sciencefiction #edgarriceburroughs #johncarter #dejahthoris #barsoom #delreybooks

John Carter stands over the body of a green Martian with a rapier plunged into its chest. In his arms, he carries Dejah Thoris who lays a hand across her chest covering one breast. She wears no clothes but accents of gold jewelry and chains cover her arm and waist. An angry mob of green Martians gathers behind the raised dais as John Carter looks for an escape. The wall behind them is open in an onion style arch revealing brilliant blue sky and a large craggy moon. The surrounding pillars are marbleized metallic green swirling against smooth sand-colored stone. An elegant laser pistol lies on the floor in the immediate foreground.

Really hope I get some sleep in tonight. Been out of sync again with the rest of the world and it’s starting to get to me.

I mean sure, I get a lot of stuff done, but I don’t get to meet up with a lot of people. So it’s quite a bit isolating.

Yet I try so hard to stick to my routines. Maybe I’m not really made for 24h life?

#barsoom

#EdgarRiceBurroughs offered a wealth of critical fodder with his #Tarzan stories (was it even necessary to list all the problems, starting with the very idea of him?), or his #Barsoom series, where the protagonist #JohnCarter had been a captain in the Army of New #Virginia before becoming a Martian warlord. "A #Confederate officer?" Atticus's father had said, appalled. "That's the hero?"

(1/4)

#JimCrow #racism #bigotry #fiction #fantasy #scifi

Yesterday's links:

ERBzine: Barsoomian airships
https://www.erbzine.com/mag28/2806.html

More on Traveller noble PCs
http://ancientfarfuture.blogspot.com/2025/08/another-benefit-of-playing-noble-pc.html

Intelligent weapons demands
https://icastlight.blogspot.com/2025/08/downtime-demands-of-sentient-weapons-or.html

#TTRPG #skyships #Barsoom #Traveller #SciFiFeudalism
#MagicItem

LLANA OF GATHOL (1979)
Acrylic - 24" x 32"

Since I did the eleven Martian Tales books over the course of a year, as time went on some things became less important. This time we did not worry about the title of the book, and Llana herself does not even appear in my painting. 1/4

#sciencefiction #sff #scifi #scifiart #illustration #edgarriceburroughs #johncarter #mars #barsoom #delreybooks

Two scantily clad Barsoomian men carrying laser pistols are caught by surprise on a polar landscape by a large wooly beast. The creature has a body like a yeti, covered all in white fur, but its lower half is four-legged like a stocky pachyderm. It has large insectile eyes and rhino-like horns protruding from its snout. Two tusks extend from the corners of its mouth, which is open exposing uneven pointed teeth.

SYNTHETIC MEN OF MARS (1979)
Acrylic - 32" x 24"

After experiencing the look of the Plant Men on the second cover of the series, I was hesitant to follow exactly Burroughs' description of the Synthetic Man. 1/3

#sciencefiction #scifi #scifiart #sff #illustration #edgarriceburroughs #johncarter #barsoom

A grossly disfigured, hulking man ferries a boat through vermillion swamp. He holds an ornate rapier at the ready while pushing the craft with a makeshift pole gripped in his offhand. Gentle ripples in the water—highlighted in pink—radiate from the boat. The synthetic man's black hair and red cast skin are native to Barsoom, but his face is grotesquely asymmetrical with one huge eye bulging. His other eye is barely visibly as his face droops and his mouth slants at a sharp diagonal. His frame is comically top heavy with tense, striated muscle concentrated in his yolked shoulders and broad chest. At the bow of the boat, a Barsoomian woman decked in jewels and not much else is caught in a moment of surprise as she spies monstrous creatures ahead. A green, six-legged lizard with yellow eyes emerges from the water, stretching its jaws to reveal a mouth of jagged fangs. On an uprooted tree nearby perches an enormous insect with pincered mandibles, barbed tail, and translucent fly-like wings

Via @dysonlogos: Adventures on Barsoom with Lords of Mars! https://dysonlogos.blog/2024/06/18/adventures-on-barsoom-with-lords-of-mars/ #Barsoom #TTRPG

Avendo letto in parallelo e terminato fra ieri e oggi sia il secondo romanzo del ciclo degli #HungerGames sia il primo di #Barsoom, farò l'affermazione lapidaria: in definitiva appartengono allo stesso filone, cioè il romanzo d'avventura con romanticismo e buoni sentimenti rivolto alla gioventù. A distanza di 100 anni e con una connotazione di genere antipodica, prevalgono i punti di contatto nello stile e nella modalità di fruizione.

Rule of Cool - this game would explore a world that’s imaginative and unpredictable, yet tonally consistent. Things wouldn’t have to make sense logically, only stylistically. Hence “the rule of cool”. A good example of that would be Alex Raymond’s #FlashGordon comic book or its 1980s movie adaptation. #barsoom novels by E. R. Burroughs or #StarWars movies are also great examples. 2/?

Capsule Review Archive – The Master Mind of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

https://write.as/robinmarx/capsule-review-archive-the-master-mind-of-mars-by-edgar-rice-burroughs

Dumb question. I really enjoyed A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs as a boy and occasionally as an adult. When Disney released John Carter I thought it was a perfectly serviceable modern interpretation of something well over 100 years old..so why all the hate? I really don't know what people were expecting and not getting..
#johncarter #edgarriceburroughs #barsoom

A FIGHTING MAN OF MARS (1979)
Acrylic - 24" x 32"

Since I was endeavoring to be the illustrator most faithful to Burroughs' descriptions, Lester del Rey and I had a lengthy discussion about whether the white lizard I wanted to show had six or eight legs. 1/4

#sciencefiction #scifi #scifiart #sff #edgarriceburroughs #johncarter #barsoom

#barsoom

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