Currently Reading: Synthetic Men Of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Art by Michael Whelan

In the run up to the release of Disney's John Carter on March 9th, I'm reading through the entire Edgar Rice Burroughs 'Barsoom' series, I'm now up to book 9 - Synthetic Men Of Mars. 

From Wikipedia: 
Like several previous novels in the Barsoom series, Synthetic Men introduces a completely new character as its protagonist: Vor Daj, a warrior from Helium and a member of John Carter's personal guard. Vor Daj narrates the action in the first person, so that when John Carter appears in the story, he is described in the third person (unlike other Barsoomian novels that feature Carter as the first-person narrator).
Synthetic Men also brings back a familiar character, Ras Thavas, a brilliant but evil scientist who functions as the villain in The Master Mind of Mars.


Almost finished this and I have enjoyed it. It does feel a bit more slower paced and if compared to the previous eight books of the series that I've read so far, it does feel the weakest, but it is still entertaining!

And according to Wikipedia the copyright for this story has expired in Australia, and thus now resides in the public domain there. The text is available via Project Gutenberg Australia.