Edgar Rice Burroughs's most famous creation may be Tarzan, but his most imaginative work was in science fiction and the series of stories set on Barsoom, his name for Mars.
I remember as a kid being enthralled by the adventures of an American civil war soldier transported to Mars where he becomes – by dint of the change of gravity – a superhero among both green and red inhabitants.
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