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Foreword     What originally started as research to write a Barsoomian Spoof soon became an obsession to detail Edgar Rice Burroughs' wondrous Martian Saga. Perhaps my manuscript Dead Cities of Mars will be available one day. When it is I hope you will enjoy it--until then my research produced a rather handy glossary of Barsoomian facts which should interest old and new fans of Burroughs' adventure tales set on the planet Mars.     I first read the Martian series between 1960 and 1965. When I began work on Dead Cities of Mars in 1982 I re-read the entire series and took notes. Others have done authoritative works on Barsoom but I have not read them as of yet. I felt it was necessary to do this research independently to avoid having their influences or observations obstructing my compilation and comments.     I am not a scholar, so don't look for scholarly work. I'm just a plain old Texas boy who likes a little fantasy when he can. Nowadays it seems that most fantasies involve two or more of the opposite sex, a kilo of coke in a locked room or something else artificial. Give me Barsoom any day of the week! Get high on your own imagination. And the best of the imaginative writers of any generation is Edgar Rice Burroughs.     David Bruce Bozarth      tangor@erblist.com     HTML Version Copyright © 1996-2001, Revisions © 2003-5

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From Richard Lupoff, another ERB fan publishing commentary regarding Barsoom:
Barsoom: Edgar Rice Burroughs and the Martian Vision has been reprinted. It's an all-new edition in trade paperback format. There's a gorgeous George Barr cover in place of the dust jacket painting on the hardcover edition, which I never really liked. And there's wonderful new Barr artwork inside. Publisher is Gryphon Books.