The Chessmen of Mars

“The Chessmen of Mars“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars. The Chessmen of Mars is a science fantasy novel, the fifth of the Barsoom series.

• It features the characters of John Carter and Carter's wife Dejah Thoris.
• Full of swordplay and daring feats, the series is considered a classic example of 20th-century pulp fiction.
• The story is set on Mars, imagined as a dying planet with a harsh desert environment.

This vision of Mars was based on the work of the astronomer Percival Lowell, whose ideas were widely popularized in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.