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Title: Lost on Venus (Bison Frontiers of Imagination Series) by Edgar Rice Burroughs, James Allen St. John, Kevin J. Anderson, J. Allen St John ISBN: 0-8032-6219-1 Publisher: Bison Bks Corp Pub. Date: April, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Carson pursues Duare the janjong across Amtor
Comment: "Lost on Venus" is the second volume in Edgar Rice Burrough's Carson of Venus series and a rather ironic title since our hero left Earth on a spaceship headed for Mars but ended up on Venus because he forgot to take into account the moon's gravitational pull. Fortunately it turns out that Venus not only has a breathable atmosphere but is inhabited. In "Pirates of Venus," Carson Napier learns about the politics and culture of the planet called Amtor and fell in love with Duare, the daughter of a jong (i.e., she is a princess). Of course, in grand ERB tradition, by the end of that first novel Carson and his beloved were separated by a cruel fate (she is carried away by a flying creature and he is captured by a Thorist spy, and the time has come for him to do something about that.
Originally published as a serial in "Argosy Weekly" in 1933, this pulp fiction adventure is communicated to ERB by Napier himself, using telepathy (I liked the Gridley from the Barsoom books better). Carson is held captive and is put in a room where there are seven doors: one leads to escape, the rest to horrible deaths. This is a fairly interesting start to the story and ERB has some fun coming up with a way for his hero to get out of this predicament. Carson, who is given the name Albargan ("No-Hair-Man") by the natives, catches up with Duare, who keeps insisting that he is too low to speak to her since she is a janjong and he is a nobody. There are some interesting science fiction notions, as when Carson considers the Amtorian theory of the cosmos, which is totally wrong since the planet's constant cloud cover keeps them from seeing anything else in the solar system.
Even though you find all of the standard Burroughs elements from the romantic adventure formula that made him famous as Carson pursues Duare, "Lost on Venus" really is more of a political polemic than his standard stories. This book continues the political satire of the series with the Thorists clearly intended to represent the Communists and it is hard not to see the scientifically advanced city of Havatoo as representing an Aryan wonderland in the Nazi tradition (later on in the series ERB clearly takes aim at Mussolini's brand of fascism as well). "Pirates of Venus" is not really considered a dystopian novel, but in terms of predicting the political evils that would lead to World War II, Burroughs was fairly accurate. This was the last of the major series that ERB created and during the 1930s it really represented his best work, which would seem to indicate that his political passions in the Venus books worked to his advantage.
Rating: 5
Summary: Another great story from the master.
Comment: Very entertaining storyline. Gives the reader another chance to imagine an adventure on one of our sister planets. After reading the horrible end to the Martian series, anything would be good. But this storyline is good enough to stand alone.
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Title: Escape on Venus : (#4) by Edgar Rice Burroughs ISBN: 0345370112 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 15 June, 1991 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
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Title: Pirates of Venus by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Thomas Floyd, Phillip R. Burger ISBN: 0803261837 Publisher: Bison Bks Corp Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Wizard of Venus and Pirate Blood by Edgar Rice Burroughs ISBN: 0441901964 Publisher: Ace Books Pub. Date: December, 1984 List Price(USD): $20.75 |
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Title: Land of Terror : (#6) by Edgar Rice Burroughs ISBN: 0345366727 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 14 April, 1990 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
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Title: Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs, J. Allen St. John, Jack McDevitt, James Allen St John ISBN: 0803262043 Publisher: Bison Bks Corp Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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