Video clip from humorous 1930's SF journey-to-Mars musical film Just Imagine, starring El Brendel and Maureen O'Sullivan

Here’s a beautiful lobby card and fabulous video clip from Just Imagine (1930), a humorous science fiction musical film in which a man, struck by lightening, wakes up in the year 1980, where people have arranged marriages, pills instead of food, numbers instead of names, and vending machine babies. Perhaps best known for its portrayal of a futuristic New York City, the film also involves a hilarious journey to the fourth planet. Starring the comical El Brendel as Single O, the time traveler struck by lightning; John Garrick as J-21, a man who must convince a tribunal to approve his marriage to the lovely LN-18, played by Maureen O'Sullivan; and Joyzelle Joyner as Loo-Loo, queen of the dancing Martians.

Al Sarrantonio's 2006 fantasy novel Queen of Mars available for Kindle e-reader

Even more good news! Queen of Mars (2006), a fantasy novel written by award-winning science fiction, fantasy, and horror author Al Sarrantonio, is now available for the Kindle e-book reader!

Young Princess Clara must defend her crown,

as the atmosphere gradually leaks away from the Red Planet!

Queen of Mars is the third novel in the Masters of Mars trilogy. It is preceded by Hayden of Mars (2005) and Sebastian of Mars (2005). All three novels just have been republished as a single ebook: The Masters of Mars Omnibus (Crossroad Press 2011).

Jim Steranko original cover art for 1970’s Marvel comic Gullivar Jones: Warrior of Mars coming up for auction

Later this year, Heritage Auctions of Beverly Hills will auction off the Jim Steranko original black-and-white artwork that served as the cover art for Marvel’s colorful 1973 comic book Creatures On the Loose #21, featuring Edwin L. Arnold’s pre-ERB character Gullivar Jones, Warrior of Mars. This beautiful piece of comic book history is part of the 2011 November Beverly Hills Signature Vintage Comics & Comic Art Auction.

New short Mars fiction: “Eleven Minutes” by Garth L. Powell

Interzone #235 (July-August 2011), the magazine that has long been “the backbone of the British SF industry,” has an interesting new work of short fiction by noted SF&F writer Gareth L. Powell entitled “Eleven Minutes”. I have not read the story, but critic Lois Tilton of Locus Online provides a spoilish summary in her review of this issue::

Gary and Carl are a couple of losers at JPL, operating a remote rover on Mars and carping at each other during the long minutes of boredom between sending of a command and the machine’s response. Gary nags Carl about his weight, which has nothing to do with the story’s revelation, and Carl is reading SF about alternate realities, which does.

According to reviewer Mark Watson of BestSF.net, the title “Eleven Minutes” refers to “the length of time it takes the protagonists to send a command from NASA JPL to a Mars Rover to take a photograph, and to receive back the photograph.” Watson also notes that the story is a solid “contribution to fairly well-trodden regolith.”

Old interview with actress Joanna Cassidy of 2001 SF-Horror film Ghosts of Mars

I recently found a neat 2003/2004 interview with Hollywood actress Joanna Cassidy, who had a minor role in Ghosts of Mars (2001), an action-packed science fiction-horror film directed by horror master John Carpenter that is set in the late 22nd century on a partially terraformed Mars in which an ancient Martian civilization is uncovered in a remote mining town. Here’s an excerpt:

Question: You have your fair share of fight sequences in the movie, was there any special training that had to be done for the fight sequences?

Joanna Cassidy: We very much trained for the fight sequences on Ghosts of Mars. For weeks ahead of time. John and Sandy [director John Carpenter and his wife Sandy] hired experts in knife and stick fighting. We did a lot of work to get up to speed, to get really in good shape. But I love that stuff! I could do that every day. I mean, I always train on something every day anyway. I always work out. I love to be in great shape. It makes me feel wonderful. I love the old endorphins to kick in. You know, life is good when you move your body.

According to the free online movie museum YourProps.com, the sexy outfit worn by Cassidy in Ghosts of Mars (pictured above) included a pair of Frye boots, size 7.5.

Robert A. Heinlein gives Vulcan salute while donating blood

Editorial regarding Science Fiction Writers of America blood bank, published in the July 1977 issue of Galileo, a magazine of science & fiction.

Review: Exiles of the Dire Planet, 2009 novel in ERB-inspired Mars series by Joel Jenkins

All Pulp, a website devoted to two-fisted news from the world of pulp, recently reviewed Exiles of the Dire Planet, a Sword & Planet novel written by pulp science fiction author Joel Jenkins and published in 2009 by PulpWork Press. Inspired by legendary authors Edgar Rice Burroughs and Robert E. Howard, Exiles of the Dire Planet features hero Garvey Dire and his swashbuckling adventures on the planet Mars. It is the second novel in the Dire Planet series.

1950s novelette: “Warrior Queen of Mars” by Alexander Blade

Thanks to another generous fan of old magazines at the Internet Archive, you can read or download “Warrior Queen of Mars”, a fantastic adventure penned by science fiction writer Rog Phillips under the pseudonym Alexander Blade with striking cover art by Robert Gibson Jones, as it was originally published in the September 1950 issue of Fantastic Adventures magazine.

"Out of the frigid fastness of Iceland came a strange threat to Earth — centuries old!"

 

5 Mars SF&F guys who committed suicide

1) James Ashmore Creelman (1894-1941) Hollywood film writer whose credits include King Kong (1933) and The Journey to Mars (1936).

2) Thomas Disch (1940-2008) Science fiction author and poet whose works include the children’s book The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars (1988).

3) Gray Morrow (1934-2001) Illustrator of paperback book covers and comics whose works include the cover art for the 1966 editions of the trilogy Warriors of Mars, Blades of Mars, Barbarians of Mars by Michael Moorcock.

4) H. Beam Piper (1904-1964) Science fiction author whose works include the classic short story “Omnilingual” (1957).

5) Wally Wood (1927-1981) Comic book writer and artist whose works include “Spawn of Mars” (1951) and the concept roughs for the famed 1962 Topps Mars Attacks trading cards.

Cat illos from Robert Silverberg’s 1960 juvie Lost Race of Mars

Check out these cute illustrations of cats by artist Leonard Kessler!

They are from the first edition of Robert Silverberg's classic juvenile science fiction novel Lost Race of Mars (John C. Winston Co.,1960).

Meet the Mars author: 1939 Robert Moore Williams autobio

“Meet Our Science Fiction Family”

Thrilling Wonder Stories (June 1939)

Robert Moore Williams wrote quite a few works of Martian science fiction, including the short stories “Death Desert” (1941), “The Seekers” (1948), “The Sound of Bugles” (1949), “The Next Time We Die” (1957), and “The Martian Cats” (1957); the novelettes “The Red Death of Mars” (1940), “Fifth Column of Mars” (1940), “Martian Adventure” (1944), and "New Lamps" (1957); and the collection When Two Worlds Meet (1970).

Preview of new comic book Warlord of Mars: Dejah Thoris #5

Comic Book Resources has a seductive five-page preview of Warlord of Mars: Dejah Thoris #5 (July 2011), the fifth issue in the new comic book series published by Dynamite Entertainment that chronicles what the lovely Martian princess Dejah Thoris was doing all those hundreds of years before John Carter arrived on Barsoom!

The Mars-shattering conclusion of Colossus of Mars! Dejah Thoris has rallied the free Martian kingdoms to fight the Jeddak of Yorn, who has merged body and mind with a horrific war colossus of the ancients. If Dejah and her allies can't stop Yorn, he will complete his bloody holocaust of the green Martian hordes. All hope lies in Yorn's son, Valian, who has joined the rebels. His knowledge of the inner workings of the Colossus are the only chance they have of smashing Yorn. But Yorn has a spy among the allies... An epic duel in the skies and the emergence of an unexpected hero await you in Dejah Thoris #5: Colossus of Mars, part 5 of 5!

Based on the fantastical science fiction of beloved pulp author Edgar Rice Burroughs, Warlord of Mars: Dejah Thoris #5 was written by Arvid Nelson, drawn by Carlos Rafael, colored by Carlos Lopez, with variant cover art by Arthur Adams, Ale Garza, Joe Jusko, and Paul Renaud (pictured above!).

Check your local comic book shop for Warlord of Mars: Dejah Thoris #5!

 

Interview with Thomas L. James, co-author of the 2010 YA novel In the Shadow of Ares

Embedded below is a festive video interview with space engineer, Mars Society member, and Colorado author Thomas L. James, who, along with Carl C. Carlsson, co-wrote the recent near-future, hard science, Young Adult SF-mystery novel In the Shadow of Ares (Amazon Digital Services, 2010).

The third exploration mission to Mars vanishes in 2029 without a trace. Two decades later, the success of human settlement of Mars and the life of a young girl hinge on the secret of what happened to the Ares III mission...

In 2051, Mars is a growing outpost of humanity, and 14-year-old settler Amber Jacobsen is a minor interplanetary celebrity – "the First Kid on Mars." Pioneering Mars is hard, unglamorous work, though, and Amber secretly wishes she were just an ordinary girl living on Earth.

When her family’s homestead is destroyed in an apparent accident, the Jacobsens relocate to an independent settlement located on the northern fringes of Noctis Labyrinthus, a vast and largely unexplored canyonland. Their new home promises new opportunities, and Amber looks forward to being just another member of the community. Instead, the other settlers dismiss her as a burdensome child and refuse to accept her as the responsible young adult she has become.

In order to prove the value of her unique knowledge and perspective, Amber vows to uncover the fate of the Ares III mission, whose loss had largely been forgotten in the rush of the Martian settlement boom. But this seemingly harmless challenge thrusts her into a deadly conflict: those who know the truth will kill to keep it hidden, while those who destroyed her family’s homestead would use the secret to secure their dominance over all of Mars.

In solving the mystery, Amber could destroy everything the Martian settlers have worked to create.

Don't tell the anti-Amazon crowd, but considering the August 2011 price reduction, I just bought In the Shadow of Ares for my Kindle e-reader!

2010 novelette "The Emperor of Mars" by Allen Steele wins Hugo Award

Congratulations to veteran Martian science fiction & fantasy author Allen Steele, whose 2010 novelette “The Emperor of Mars” (free read, pdf) won a Hugo Award last night at Renovation, the 69th World Science Fiction Convention, held in Reno, Nevada!

Published in the June 2010 issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine, “The Emperor of Mars” revolves round a roughneck stationed on a near-future Mars, who, after suffering severe emotional trauma, develops some unusual reading habits, which leads to some rather erratic behavior, as he devolves into Emperor Jeffery the First, sovereign monarch of the Great Martian Empire, warlord and protector of the red planet!

Artwork by Andreas Rocha

If you don't have time to read "The Emperor of Mars," you can download & listen to an unabridged 47-minute reading of it, narrated by Nathan Lowell with cool cover art by Andreas Rocha (pictured above), as it was podcast in the recent No. 168 issue of UK-based StarShipSofa: The Audio Science Fiction Magazine!

“The Quetenestel Towers” 1950s short story by Robert F. Young

Thanks to another generous fan of old magazines at the Internet Archive, you can read or download “The Quetenestel Towers”, a short story penned by science fiction writer Robert F. Young, as it was originally published in the December 1955 issue of Fantastic Universe magazine.

“A vision of beauty becomes a part of the mind that rejoices in its splendor.

No wonder the Martian towers menaced Thorton’s sanity.”

Sci-Fri: FBI file on German rocket scientist Wernher von Braun

The FBI’s Freedom of Information/Privacy Act Vault has scores of case files and thousands of documents that have been scanned, including more than 300 pages from the file on famed German rocket scientist Wernher von Braun, who was a proponent of a manned mission to Mars back in the 1950's. At quick glance, the file contains information about von Braun's personal life, his involvement in secret Nazi science projects, death threats against von Braun and President Nixon, protests of von Braun by groups representing Holocaust survivors, and possible sabotage of the United States space program. Some things have been redacted, but this still makes for fascinating reading!

The Monster Times: Martians in the Comics

Article “Martians in the Comics” by Jeffrey H. Wasserman explores Martian comic book characters and displays a dazzling menagerie of Red Planet creatures. Published in The Monster Times, No. 31 (March 1974).

Interview with Simon Wells, director of recent Disney box office wreck Mars Needs Moms

The Deadbolt has an interesting interview with Simon Wells, director of the Disney 3-D computer-animated science fiction family film Mars Needs Moms (2011), which crashed at the box office earlier this year. Based on the 2007 children’s book by Berkeley Breathed, the film stars voice actor Seth Green as a kid named Milo and Joan Cusack as his mom, who is kidnapped by Martians and taken to the Red Planet to help raise alien children. Here’s an excerpt from the interview:

THE DEADBOLT: How did you approach the book and Martian society differently in terms of men and women? What did you and Wendy want to say?

SIMON WELLS: Well, our initial thing, because we were going to spend more time on Mars than the book, the book didn’t have to deal with what Martian society was like at all. We wanted to actually use the expiration of Mars as a way of exploring [new things]. Our initial thinking was what Milo experiences on Mars, in a Wizard of Oz way, is kind of a version of how he perceives his life.

So the mother is a dictator who has no emotional value at all and just tells him what he has to do and what he isn’t allowed to do all of the time and that is sort of absent. So on Mars we have the Nazi Supervisor and everyone walks in lockstep. The males are sort of these crazy hippy characters that are relegated to the trash and thrown away. So he already has a sense that something’s wrong. Then meeting Milo kind of flips a switch for Ki and she realizes this society is wrong.

Mars Needs Moms was just released on DVD and Blu-ray.

Richard Powers cover art for 1958 Dell paperback Martian novel A Mirror for Observers by Edgar Pangborn

A Mirror for Observers

Science fiction novel by Edgar Pangborn

(US: Dell Publishing, 1958) #D246, paperback

Cover art by Richard Powers

Retro review: 1978 hard science fiction Mars novel The Far Call by Gordon R. Dickson

Review of The Far Call (1978), a hard science fiction Mars novel written by Gordon R. Dickson, as published in the May 1978 issue of Galaxy science fiction magazine.

Sinbad: Rogue of Mars, pious Muslim, social media crusader

Material from Sinbad: Rogue of Mars comic book series (Bluewater, 2007-2008). Purchase the new graphic novel version (May 2011) for your Kindle!

“When the Half Gods Go—” 1930s short story by Amelia R. Long about Martians vs. Venusians

Thanks to another generous fan of old magazines at the Internet Archive, you can read or download “When the Half Gods Go—,” a short story penned by mystery & science fiction writer Amelia Reynolds Long and illustrated by pulp artist Paul Orban, as it was originally published in the July 1939 issue of Astounding Science-Fiction magazine.

“The Martian had a fine idea for capturing trade: be a god.

The native Venusians, though, had an infallible test…”

Conquest of Space - 1955 Sci-Fi film produced by George Pal

Here's a nice surprise: Someone recently uploaded to YouTube a high-quality DVD recording of Conquest of Space (1955), a science fiction film produced by George Pal, the award-winning producer of The War of the Worlds (1953). Set in the Atomic Age, the storyline revolves around a team of international astronauts who undertake the first manned mission to the Red Planet.

Infused with some solid science, neat special effects, and timeless philosophical conflicts and religious debates, Conquest of Space stars Walter Brooke as the Bible-carrying American commander, Gen. Samuel T. Merritt; Eric Fleming as his scientifically-grounded son, Capt. Barney Merritt; Mickey Shaughnessy as the general’s loyal Irish underling, Sgt. Mahoney; Phil Foster as the smart-ass, buxom-blonde-loving Sgt. Siegle from Brooklyn; and Benson Fong as the erudite Japanese astronaut, Imoto.

“But we can still reach destination as planned, which may be Mars…or Hell.

This voyage is a cursed abomination! If it were possible, I’d come back now, return the ship to Earth, and blow it up! Together with all plans in existence for building another! We’re committing man’s greatest sacrilege!”

Life on Mars, tales from the frontier: “Digging” by Ian McDonald

I’m still reading my way through Life on Mars: Tales from the New Frontier (Viking, April 2011), the new original Young Adult science fiction anthology edited by Jonathan Strahan that's comprised of stories from a range of contemporary international writers, including the late Kage Baker, Alastair Reynolds, Nnedi Okorafor, Stephen Baxter, Nancy Kress, and Kim Stanley Robinson.

The ninth tale in the anthology is a gritty piece titled “Digging,” penned by British science fiction novelist Ian McDonald. Set on a partially terraformed Mars, the plot revolves around a young girl named Tash Gelem-Opunyo, who lives in the excavating city of West Diggory on the slope of the Big Dig.

According to McDonald, “It’s a story about how complex it can be growing up in a confined space and how much you can see and what lies over that horizon. It’s about learning about disappointments, and how much of life consists of digging holes and then filling them in again.”

Literary miners may want to explore the role of the wind in “Digging.”

 

1996 Playboy interview with Ray Bradbury: Race, Rage, Riots

The recent riots and looting in London, Birmingham, Manchester and other British cities and towns reminds me of this lengthy excerpt from a wide-ranging May 1996 Playboy magazine interview with science fiction & fantasy author Ray Bradbury. The interview was conducted “in the wake of the Rodney King trial and the subsequent riots” and, apparently, Bradbury was “seemingly unaware that crime had begun to decrease precipitously in American cities.”

PLAYBOY: Was your faith in law enforcement shaken because of Stacey Koon and Mark Fuhrman?

BRADBURY: We’ve become what I call a Kleenex society—I saw the public’s reaction as the symbolic chance to blow its collective nose on the whole police force of the United States, holding all cops responsible for incidents in Los Angeles. Of course I knew there was a problem in the LAPD. On the other hand, three of my daughters have been raped and robbed by black men, so I have a prejudice, too, don’t I? And if I ever were to find the bastards, I’d kill them. I’ve seen violence used by police, and I’ve seen it used against white people, too.

PLAYBOY: Did the Rodney King riots shock you?

BRADBURY: I was more than shocked—I was terribly upset, and terribly angry at Mayor Bradley. The friend I’ve known for ten years was the man who went on television half an hour after the trial was over and used terrible language to say he was outraged. Boom!—next thing you know, the mobs burned the streets. Thus far I haven’t had the guts to tell Tom Bradley, face-to-face, “you did it!”

PLAYBOY: Did you have any idea there was so much rage in Los Angeles’ black community?

BRADBURY: I don’t think anybody knew.

PLAYBOY: Did you feel any empathy for the rioters?

BRADBURY: None. Why should I? I don’t approve of any mob anywhere at any time. Had we not controlled it in L.A., all the big cities in this country would have gone up in flames.

PLAYBOY: If Los Angeles is an indicator for the nation, what is the future of other big cities?

BRADBURY: Along with man’s return to the moon, my biggest hope is that L.A. will show the way for all of our cities to rebuild, because they’ve gone to hell and the crime rate has soared. When we can repopulate them, the crime rate will plunge.

PLAYBOY: What will help?

BRADBURY: We need enlightened corporations to do it; they’re the only ones who can. All the great malls have been built by corporate enterprises. We have to rebuild cities with the same conceptual flair that the great malls have. We can turn any bad section of town into a vibrant new community.

PLAYBOY: How do you convince corporate leaders and bureaucrats that you have the right approach?

BRADBURY: They listen because they know my track record. The center of downtown San Diego was nonexistent until a concept of mine, the Horton Plaza, was built right in the middle of bleakest skid row. Civilization returned to San Diego upon its completion. It became the center of a thriving community. And the Glendale Galleria, based on my concept, changed downtown Glendale when it was built nearly 25 years ago. So if I live another ten years—please, God!—I’ll be around to witness a lot of this in Los Angeles and inspire the same thing in big cities throughout the country.

The 1996 Playboy interview, published in Conversations with Ray Bradbury (2004), is considered one of Bradbury’s most important, and not just for his views on the magazine.

 

Preview: Dynamite comic book Warlord of Mars #8

Comic Book Resources has a five-page preview of Warlord of Mars #8 (May 2011), a recent chapter in the new comic book adaptation by Dynamite Entertainment of beloved pulp author Edgar Rice Burroughs’s fantastical science fiction novel A Princess of Mars.

Dejah Thoris has proclaimed her love for John Carter, but the despicable Warlord of Zodanga has forced her to promise she will marry the Zondangan prince. A Martian woman may not back out of such a pledge, and she may not marry her husband-to-be's killer. John Carter will need an army to change things now. If he can help Tars Tarkas seize control of the Tharks, he might have just that — but Zodanga's not going down without a fight!

Warlord of Mars #8 was written by Arvid Nelson, with interior artwork by Lui Antonio and variant covers by artists Joe Jusko, Lucio Parrillo, and Stephen Sadowski. That's John Carter and the lovely Dejah Thoris, as depicted by Stephen Sadowski, pictured above!

First page of Marion Zimmer Bradley's 1964 Martian novella "The Dark Intruder"

Marion Zimmer Bradley's Martian novella "The Dark Intruder" was originally published under the title "Measureless to Man" in the December 1962 issue of Amazing Stories magazine.

The Dark Intruder & Other Stories, a collection by Marion Zimmer Bradley. Paperback original (New York: Ace Books, 1964), 124 p., #F-273, 40¢. Cover art by Jack Gaughan. An Ace double novel, bound with Bradley’s Falcons of Narabedla.

Weapons from Red Faction armory: Assault Rifle

Supporters of simple Second Amendment remedies to complex political issues (like credit downgrades) will appreciate the diversity and effectiveness of the weapons in the armory of Red Faction: Armageddon, the new fourth installment in THQ’s popular science fiction, action-shooter, destruction-based video game series set on a revolutionary late 22nd-century Mars. For example, check out the details of the Assault Rifle:

Assault Rifle

Type of Weapon: Firearm

Origin: Red Faction

Description: Projectile-based, Triple-barrel, Standard issue

Uses: Patrols, Firefights, Assaults, Security

Red Faction based their standard-issue rifle on the blueprints of the EDF’s original Assault Rifle. Few questioned the source material as that weapon had few problems with it. Its triple-barrel design and stocky build were the result of almost a century of tinkering by various hands, though it always retained the core elements of dependability, high rate of fire, and easy learning curve.

Red Faction: Armageddon was launched June 7, 2011.

 

Lewis Shiner's 1984 cyperpunk novel Frontera now available for Kindle e-reader

Even more good news! Frontera (1984), a classic cyberpunk novel set on the Red Planet by American science fiction writer Lewis Shiner, is now available for the Kindle! Here’s the product description from Amazon:

Ten years ago the world's governments collapsed, and now the corporations are in control. Houston's Pulsystems has sent an expedition to the lost Martian colony of Frontera to search for survivors. Reese, aging hero of the US space program, knows better. The colonists are not only alive, they have discovered a secret so devastating that the new rulers of Earth will stop at nothing to own it. Reese is equally desperate to use it for his own very personal agenda. But none of them have reckoned with Kane, tortured veteran of the corporate wars, whose hallucinatory voices are urging him to complete an ancient cycle of heroism and alter the destiny of the human race.

Benjamin Wald of SFRrevu praised Frontera in an April 2011 review.

 

"Maid of Mars" – 1950s Buster Crabbe comic

The blog Western Comics Adventures (which takes you back to thrilling days of yesteryear, when men were REAL men, women were REAL women, and EVERYBODY carried guns) has readable jpegs of an eleven-page comic titled “Maid of Mars.” With interior artwork by Al Williamson & Roy Krenkel and cover art by Frank Frazetta, “Maid of Mars” was published in Buster Crabbe Comics #5 (July 1952).

Thanks to David Tackett of the blog QuasarDragon for the tip!

And now, a word from our sponsor: Mars candy bars

 

"Mo-Shanshon!" 1940s novelette by Bryce Walton about creepy insects from Mars!

Thanks to a generous fan of old pulp magazines at the Internet Archive, you can read or download "Mo-Shanshon!" a short story penned by World War II combat correspondent and science fiction & mystery writer Bryce Walton, as it was originally published in the Summer 1947 issue of Planet Stories magazine.

“Only Professor Ward knew they were on Earth,

could almost hear them rustling behind their humanoid faces.

Then Red came to help him, and of course he had to trust Red. But—could he?”

 

Al Sarrantonio's 2005 fantasy novel Sebastian of Mars available for Kindle e-reader

More good news! Sebastian of Mars (2005), a fantasy novel written by award-winning science fiction, fantasy, and horror author Al Sarrantonio, is now available for the Kindle!

Sebastian of Mars is the second novel in a trilogy. It was preceded by Hayden of Mars (2005) and followed by Queen of Mars (2006). All three novels were republished as a single hardcover volume: Masters of Mars (Science Fiction Book Club, 2006).

Poem: "There Are No More Good Stories About Mars Because We Need No More Good Stories About Mars" by Brian W. Aldiss

Poem “There Are No More Good Stories About Mars Because We Need No More Good Stories About Mars” by British science fiction author Brian W. Aldiss, as published in the June 1963 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Paired with unrelated Mars art by Ed Emshwiller.

Triptych cover art for Michael Moorcock's Mars trilogy II

Paperback editions of Warriors of Mars, Blades of Mars and Barbarians of Mars, a trilogy of science fiction novels written by British SF author Michael Moorcock under the pseudonym Edward P. Bradbury. All three novels were published in 1966 in the U.S. by Lancer Books and don cover art by Gray Morrow.