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On a dying Mars, a soldier carries his sword into hostile country for a woman beyond his reach.
Tan Hadron of Hastor is a panthan: a soldier who serves for pay and takes his sword wherever it is wanted. But his love for Sanoma Tora gives him a purpose no payment can settle. When a crisis separates them, he sets out across Barsoom, driven by her fate and his own sense of honor.
In A Fighting Man of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs opens a world of dry sea bottoms, ancient cities, flying ships, and endless wars. Mars has lost most of its water and air. Across this harsh landscape, danger, pursuit, and escape test a young warrior whose loyalty matters as much as his skill with a sword.
What you’ll discover
- A world running dry Explore Barsoom, where walled cities and ruling houses endure on a planet losing water and air.
- A soldier with honor Follow Tan Hadron as love draws his sword beyond the service of pay.
- Love beyond his reach Sanoma Tora's fate gives a dangerous journey its urgent, deeply personal purpose.
- Peril across hostile country Move through a chain of dangers, pursuits, and escapes with a skilled fighter.
- Loyalty under pressure See what honor demands when betrayal offers an easier path through danger.
Who will love it
Readers who enjoy swords, flying ships, ruined cities and a warm love story on a dying red planet will feel at home here, along with anyone who likes a friendship that grows scene by scene.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A poor officer loves a rich woman
- A strange weapon sends Hadron west
- A cornered man frees a prisoner
- A welcome in Tjanath becomes a prison
- A secret passage leads to Tavia
- A lovely city hides a madman
- The mad inventor's weapons and a ship no eye can see
- An invisible man crosses two cities
- What the adventure is really about
Who’s who
- Tan Hadron of HastorA poor but proud padwar of Helium, brave and plain-spoken, who chases the abductors of the woman he loves.
- Sanoma ToraThe beautiful, rich daughter of Tor Hatan, who values rank and wealth and hopes to become a jeddara.
- TaviaA boyish slave girl who escaped from Tul Axtar's palace, a skilled fighter and pilot, honest and always loyal.
- Nur AnA noble of Jahar who hates Tul Axtar for stealing his sweetheart and shares Hadron's prison and perils.
- Phor TakAn old scientist who invented the disintegrating ray and now seeks revenge on Tul Axtar with new and deadlier weapons.
- Tul AxtarThe cowardly Jeddak of Jahar, who dreams of ruling all Barsoom with a vast army and a metal-dissolving rifle.
- John CarterThe Warlord of Mars, who commands the fleet of Helium and keeps a code of never firing first.
- PhaoA young woman sold into slavery in Tjanath, who helps Hadron and longs to find Nur An again.
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Le Guerrier de Mars
by Edgar Rice Burroughs · 1931
A poor padwar chases a stolen noblewoman across dead sea bottoms, with an invisible ship his only hope.
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A Fighting Man of Mars is an adventure novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, set on Barsoom, the name the people of Mars give their dying world. It belongs to the series that began with John Carter, but it follows a new hero, Tan Hadron of Hastor, a young officer of Helium who tells his tale to the Earthman Ulysses Paxton.
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A poor officer loves a rich woman
Tan Hadron of Hastor tells his own story. His father, Had Urtur, commands the largest warship Hastor has ever given to the navy of Helium, and his mother is a princess of Gathol. The family is rich only in honor. Hadron chooses the army of Helium and becomes a padwar, a junior officer, in the Ninety-first Umak, hoping to serve near John Carter, Warlord of Mars.
His career is ordinary until a feast in the Warlord's marble palace. There he meets Sanoma Tora, daughter of Tor Hatan, the odwar who commands his umak. Her beauty stands out even beside the great beauties of Helium. She glances at his insignia, sees only a padwar, and turns away. The insult does not cool him. The hardest goal has always seemed the best to Hadron, so he falls in love.
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What is A Fighting Man of Mars about?
It follows Tan Hadron of Hastor, a young officer of Helium who chases the abductors of Sanoma Tora across Mars. He meets a slave girl named Tavia and a mad inventor, and he faces a tyrant with a weapon that dissolves metal.
Who is Tavia in A Fighting Man of Mars?
Tavia is a boyish slave girl who escaped from the palace of Tul Axtar in Jahar. She is skilled with swords and fliers, helps Hadron find his way, and becomes his closest companion on the adventure.
What is the Jhama in the novel?
The Jhama is a strange ship built in the castle of Phor Tak and coated with an invisibility compound. Only its periscope shows, so it lets its pilot slip past fleets and into palaces unseen.
The author
Edgar Rice Burroughs
1875–1950 · American adventure novelist
Edgar Rice Burroughs was an American writer born in Chicago in 1875. He wrote novels about Tarzan and novels set on Mars. His first Mars story appeared in 1912 and became the book A Princess of Mars in 1917. He later lived in California and died in Encino in 1950.
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