Books like A Princess Of Mars
30 science fiction books to read after A Princess Of Mars, by Burroughs, Edgar Rice, the closest match first.
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Barsoom book 2
1. The Gods Of Mars
by Burroughs, Edgar Rice
- Same series
- Same author
After the long exile on Earth, John Carter finally returned to his beloved Mars. But beautiful Dejah Thoris, the woman he loved, had vanished. Now he was trapped in the...
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Barsoom book 3
2. The Warlord Of Mars
by Burroughs, Edgar Rice
- Same series
- Same author
The Warlord of mars is the last book in the trilogy that Mr. Burroughs did not intend to write. The first book being: “The Princess of Mars” and the second...
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Barsoom book 4
3. Thuvia
by Burroughs, Edgar Rice
- Same series
- Same author
Thuvia, Maid of Mars is the fourth Barsoom novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, in which John Carter's friend Carthoris races to save a princess from kidnappers.
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Barsoom book 5
4. The Chessmen Of Mars
by Burroughs, Edgar Rice
- Same series
- Same author
SHEA had just beaten me at chess, as usual, and, also as usual, I had gleaned what questionable satisfaction I might by twitting him with this indication of failing mentality...
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Barsoom book 6
5. The Master Mind Of Mars
by Burroughs, Edgar Rice
- Same series
- Same author
The Master Mind of Mars, Barsoom #6 Edgar Rice Burroughs Edgar Rice Burroughs vision of Mars was loosely inspired by astronomical speculation of the time, especially that of Percival Lowell,...
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Barsoom book 7
6. A Fighting Man Of Mars
by Burroughs, Edgar Rice
- Same series
- Same author
Tan Handron from the realm of Gatho encounters a wide range of enemies in this science fiction thriller of the 1930's. He fends off green men, mad scientists, cannibal, spiders...
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Barsoom book 8
7. Swords Of Mars
by Burroughs, Edgar Rice
- Same series
- Same author
"Swords of Mars" is the eighth book in the Edgar Rice Burroughs' Martian series. It was featured in six issues of the "Blue Book" magazine in 1934-1935. John Carter reprises...
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Barsoom book 9
8. Synthetic Men Of Mars
by Burroughs, Edgar Rice
- Same series
- Same author
Synthetic Men of Mars By Edgar Rice Burroughs Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 - March 19, 1950) was an American author, best known for his creation of the jungle...
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9. Swastika Night
by Katharine Burdekin
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If there is one overused cliché in science fiction, it is the alternate history novel in which Hitler won the Second World War. But this is a novel about the...
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10. A Martian Odyssey
by Stanley Grauman Weinbaum
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A Martian Odyssey was Weinbaums first science fiction story; but within eighteen months he was dead, having written barely enough to make a collection. But with that first story he...
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11. The War Of The Worlds
by Wells, H. G.
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An example of the first contact between humanity and an alien race on the violent end of spectrum and crossing genres with Alien Invasion.
This is the only book on this list that doesn't actually set foot on Mars, so in a sense it's not a Martian novel at all. But it was the...
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12. We
by Yevgeny Zamyatin
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We was written in the immediate aftermath of the Russian Revolution, and though Zamyatin was himself a Bolshevik, the novel expressed his disquiet at the structuring of society that the...
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13. The Skylark Series
by E. E. Smith
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The great innovation in American science fiction during the 1920s was the invention of the space opera, and that was largely down to E.E. "Doc" Smith. Sometime around 1916 he...
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14. Herland
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Towards the end of the 19th century a big movement for women's suffrage started up on both sides of the Atlantic. Accompanying the political campaign, there were many stories that...
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15. A Voyage To Arcturus
by David Lindsay
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Science fiction has produced some pretty weird novels in its time, but there aren't many that can match A Voyage to Arcturus. It has had a major influence on writers...
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16. Metropolis
by Thea Von Harbou
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This is the novelisation of the film that Thea von Harbou wrote with her husband, Fritz Lang. It was the first feature-length science fiction film, the most expensive film made...
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17. Deluge
by S. Fowler Wright
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The idea of a drowned England had been a commonplace in British scientific romances since at least After London by Richard Jeffries, but it received its finest expression in Fowler...
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18. The Color Out Of Space
by Lovecraft, H. P.
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Throughout the 1920s and 30s, the science fiction and weird fiction that appeared in American genre magazines was often hard to tell apart. Weird fiction writers often used science fiction...
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When Worlds Collide book 1 Start here
19. When Worlds Collide
by Philip Wylie
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Not many science fiction writers have won the Nobel Prize for Literature, but Kipling was the first member of this exclusive club. His finest science fiction is a pair of...
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20. With The Night Mail
by Rudyard Kipling
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Not many science fiction writers have won the Nobel Prize for Literature, but Kipling was the first member of this exclusive club. His finest science fiction is a pair of...
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21. It Can’t Happen Here
by Sinclair Lewis
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And here we have another Nobel Prize winning author of science fiction, though in this case Lewis flirted with genre in only one novel. But that novel is a classic....
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22. The Purple Cloud
by M. P. Shiel
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A so called last-man novel. A single man has survived and most of the novel are his meditations on humanity and the universe.
M.P. Shiel was a prolific author of excitable stories for the popular magazines of the day: he was, among other things, the person who gave us The Yellow Peril. But...
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23. The Hampdenshire Wonder
by J D Beresford
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This was the first novel to fully explore the consequences of the birth of homo superior. Victor Stott is born weak and awkward, with an enlarged head, and at first,...
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24. The Iron Heel
by Jack London
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London succeeds in doing what many men have tried to do over the course of history, and almost every man has failed in doing: understanding how women think. Unlike most...
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25. R.u.r.
by Karel Capek
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Czech is hardly a widely spoken language, and in the years immediately after the First World War Czechoslovakia had barely gained its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire which had largely...
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26. The Best Of
by Moore, C. L.
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We often tend to slip into the notion that before the advent of writers like Ursula Le Guin and Joanna Russ, science fiction was an exclusively masculine domain. But that...
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27. Mission Of Gravity
by Hal Clement
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This story is a discovery of the oceans on planet Mesklin--a planet with an iron core, a rapid rotation, and a sentient species that resemble yard-long centipedes.
Hard science fiction in its purest form didn't have villains; the implacable laws of the universe were enemy enough for anyone. After all, who needs enemies when you're faced with...
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28. White Mars
by Brian Aldiss
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It was a time of colour-coded Mars Red, Green, Blue Mars, for instance so it is hardly surprising to find one that offers yet another twist on the spectrum. But...
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29. Where Late The Sweet Birds Sang: A Novel
by Kate Wilhelm
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There was a time when stories of isolated communities surviving after the apocalypse were all over the place. There was also a time when stories of clones were everywhere, driven...
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30. Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
by James Tiptree Jr.
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In the late 1960s stories suddenly started to appear from a writer no-one had heard of before, and no-one had met. But the stories were just too good, too quirky,...
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