Utopia Kriminal #25
Amazing Stories, April 1931
Fantastic Adventures, May, 1949
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
October, 1961. Cover art by Chesley Bonestell.B-A Note: I was corresponding this morning with a co-worker by the last name of Bergeron. This made me think of Vonnegut’s dystopian short story “Harrison Bergeron”, first published in the October 1961 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and later republished in Vonnegut’s short-story collection “Welcome to the Monkey House”.
Many thanks to Belated Nerd for actually having an image of this issue. The internet is truly a marvellous thing! Belated Nerd is a great site for pop culture history fans. Check it out and enjoy.
The Chessmen of Mars (1922)
Fifth of the eleven books of the Barsoom series (the last of the five novels now in public domain). John Carter is not a main character of this one. For this novel Burroughs created an interesting new race, the Kaldanes. They sacrificed their bodies to become pure brains and have bred a symbiotic race of headless human-like creatures called Rykors, which they can attach themselves to and ride like a horse. (more on wikipedia) Burroughs also created Jetan,the Martian version of chess.
Thuvia, Maid of Mars, 1916, fourth novel of the Barsoom series. This time, John Carter is not the main character.
The Warlords of Mars, first published in magazine in 1913, published in volume in 1919. This is the third of the 11 Barsoom novels. The three first books are a kind of trilogy.
The Gods of Mars, cover of the first publication in book, 1919, by Frank E. Shoonover. First published in All-Story magazine in 1913.
This is the second of the eleven books of the Barsoom series. The five first books are in public domain and available here (and on many other pages on the web).
One hundred years ago, in 1912, the February issue of All-Story magazine featured the first part of the story Under the Moon of Mars by Norman Bean. This was the first novel of an unknown writer, Edgar Rice Burroughs, born in 1875. For serial publication, Burroughs used the pen name “Normal Bean,” chosen as a type of pun to stress that he was in his right mind, as he feared ridicule for writing such a fantastic story. The effect was spoiled when a typesetter interpreted “Normal” as a typographical error and changed it to “Norman.”
Some months later, in October 1912, Burroughs published in the same magazine Tarzan of the Apes. Under the Moon of Mars will be known later as A Princess of Mars.
infos from wikipedia
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