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Sat Jul 03 2021 at 3:42:27 In 1911, Edgar Rice Burroughs was a fairly poor man; selling pencil sharpeners at wholesale apparently did not pay well. Having turned to pulp magazines for amusement during long hours of slow business, he famously observed that »these stories are cheap lurid drivel! I could write better cheap lurid drivel than that!« Surprisingly, he did; and the result, his first novel, was A Princess of Mars, the first popular story of the planetary romance genre, which went on to become immensely influential on fantastic fiction. Burroughs was paid $400, enough to make him st...

A Princess of Mars Sat Nov 13 1999 at 9:59:09 The first novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, published in 1912, although it had been serialized in pulp magazines with the title Sat Jul 03 2021 at 3:42:27 In 1911, Edgar Rice Burroughs was a fairly poor man; selling pencil sharpeners at wholesale apparently did not pay well. Having turned to pulp magazines for amusement during long hours of slow business, he famously observed that »these stories are cheap lurid drivel! I could write better cheap lurid drivel than that!« Surprisingly, he did; and the result, his first novel, was A Princess of Mars...