The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

As he is only a padwar, Sanoma spurns him. The story-teller is Ulysses Paxton, protagonist of the previous novel, The Master Mind of Mars, but this story is not about him rather, it is the tale of Tan Hadron of Hastor, a lowly, poor padwar (a low-ranking officer) who is in love with the beautiful, haughty Sanoma Tora, daughter of Tor Hatan, a minor but rich noble.

The story is purportedly relayed back to earth via the Gridley Wave, a sort of super radio frequency previously introduced in Tanar of Pellucidar, the third of Burrough's Pellucidar novels, which thus provides a link between the two series. Like many other Burroughs stories, A Fighting Man of Mars resembles The Arabian Nights. It was later published as a complete novel by Metropolitan in May 1931. Burroughs began writing it on February 28, 1929, and the finished story was first published in The Blue Book Magazine as a six-part serial in the issues for April to September 1930. Elements of the books have been adapted by many writers, in novels, short stories, comics, television and film.A Fighting Man of Mars is a science fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the seventh of his Barsoom series. The Barsoom series, where John Carter in the late 1800s is mysteriously transported from Earth to a Mars suffering from dwindling resources, has been cited by many well known science fiction writers as having inspired and motivated them in their youth, as well as by key scientists involved in both space exploration and the search for extraterrestrial life. Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875 - 1950) was an American writer, best known for his creations of the jungle hero Tarzan and the heroic Mars adventurer John Carter, although he produced works in many genres.

The first five novels are in the public domain in U.S., but are still under copyright laws in most of the rest of the world. Ten sequels followed over the next three decades, further extending his vision of Barsoom and adding other characters. The first Barsoom tale was serialized as Under the Moons of Mars in 1912, and published as a novel as A Princess of Mars in 1917.

Mars series are the books created by the American pulp fiction author Edgar Rice Burroughs.

The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs