In 1912, the first human arrived on Mars and immediately got himself involved in the most epic adventure of all time. Serialized in the pages of All-Story magazine, the first batch of John Carter’s space adventures eventually became the 1917 novel A Princess of Mars, which later expanded into the series known as John Carter of Mars. The author was Edgar Rice Burroughs, famous for writing the 2014 Tarzan of the Apes, which solidified him as an early master of 20th-century adventure fiction. For contemporary fans of action-adventure and science fiction, these Martian exploits are likely associated with the 2012 film John Carter, a movie that is simultaneously underrated and correctly judged as a missed opportunity.
Because John Carter is, in essence, the original novelist space opera hero (alongside Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon), it makes a certain amount of sense that he would be rebooted again, or, at the very least, be saved from utter obscurity. Now, a new audio version of John Carter aims to do just that.
