Lightning-cracked time portals.   Secret tombs. Slave ship mutiny. Snake men.   Buried alive.   Parlays with kings.   These are just ...

I am agog.   Edgar Rice Burroughs' 1912 A Princess of Mars is a book I’d never read, that is, until turning the last page today—...

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