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This Ace edition follows the text of the
original magazine novel first published in 1933.
Cover art and title-page illustration
by Frank Frazetta.
Other Interplanetary Novels
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
in Ace Editions:
THE MOON MAID (F-157)
THE MOON MEN (F-159)
THUVIA, MAID OF MARS (F-168)
THE CHESSMEN OF MARS (F-170)
THE MASTERMIND OF MARS (F-181)
A FIGHTING MAN OF MARS (F-190)
PIRATES OF VENUS (F-179)
Printed in U.S.A.
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Any patriotic citizen can give you the name of the astronaut commonly
believed to be the first American in space, and inform you of the
exact time and date of liftoff from the pad at Cape Canaveral; but
any student of Burroughs knows that the first American in space was a
tow-headed, blue-eyed, young man named Carson Napier.
Napier, a former British subject, was an American by choice. He did not
lift off from a Cape Canaveral rocket pad, but was blasted into the
heavens in a rocket torpedo of his own design--more than thirty years
ago!
This "Wrong-way" Corrigan of space was attempting to reach Mars but
landed on Venus instead. There he encountered races primitively bestial
and super-scientifically advanced. There he battled with strange beasts
and giant insects. There he lost his heart to Duare, daughter of a
Vepajan _jong_, whose beauty could mean death to the beholder.
Carson Napier's amazing adventures on _Amtor_ are recorded in four
volumes, of which this is the second, as communicated directly from him
to Edgar Rice Burroughs, through the marvelous medium of telepathy.
Impossible? Science-fiction fantasy? You don't believe it? Well, if you
cannot believe in the reality of the worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs
after reading the first few pages of this book, then there is no Tarzan
of the Apes! For it is the unique style of making the impossible
plausible that made Edgar Rice Burroughs the most popular and best
selling author in the world.
VERNELL CORIELL
_Founder, The Burroughs Bibliophiles_