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