The Gods of Mars
Categories: Science Fiction & Fantasy
John Carter returns to Mars after ten years on Earth in The Gods of Mars (1918), the second of Edgar Rice Burroughs's Barsoom novels. He lands in the Valley Dor, the paradise where Martians make their final pilgrimage. There he discovers that the Martian religion is a cruel fraud run by the white-skinned Therns and the black First Born pirates. He sets out to expose it and to find his wife, Dejah Thoris.
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