American Ulysses Paxton becomes the chief assistant to the greatest scientist on Mars. Ras Thavas falls in love with Valla Dia, whose mind was transplanted to the ancient body of Xara. Vad Vara attempts to restore his love to her own body and faces a series of obstacles to save her.A Fighting Man of Mars: Hadron of Hastor, native of Helium, and the warrior who is The Fighting Man of Mars, earns the enmity of Haj Osis, jed of Tjanath. Sentenced as a spy and condemned to suffer 'The Death', Hadron must prove that John Carter's warriors are not so easily destroyed.Book club edition

    Gallun · ss Planet Stories Mar ’52 117 · Quest of Thig [Thig] · Basil Wells · ss Planet Stories Fll ’42 131 · The Rocketeers Have Shaggy Ears · Keith Bennett · nv Planet Stories Spr ’50 175 · The Diversifal · Ross Rocklynne · ss Planet Stories Win ’45 193 · Duel on Syrtis · Poul Anderson · ss Planet Stories Mar ’51

    There he encounters the brilliant and evil inventor Fal Sivas, who has created a ship which for the first time can leave the planet to visit the moons of Mars. And there John Carter learns that Ur Jan, the insidious leader of the assassins has abducted the incomparable princess Dejah Thoris... In Synthetic Men of Mars, John Carter sets out to find Ras Thavas, the only man on the planet able to heal the broken body of his beloved wife. In his way stand miles of perilous terrain, an army of sword-wielding zombies, and a horde of giant birds protecting the doctor's hidden kingdom. Carter braves all these dangers before he finally finds Ras Thavas-only to discover that the scientist is trapped by a horror he himself created: a growing, indestructible tissue which threatens to engulf the secret city and eventually the entire planet.Book club edition