![]() He gave Mars a history, several phases of civilization and an assortment of religions. ![]() he peopled the planet with four different human races and one semihuman. Burroughs created a world of dead seabeds, towering mountains, polar ice caps, underground rivers. the story of life and death, romance and tragedy on the Red Planet is undoubtedly one of the greatest series of all time. Over a period of thirty years, Burroughs wrote ten Martian tales. His account of fifteen-foot green men, eight-legged beasts, oviparous females, and swordswinging red men was an immediate success. When Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) wrote "Dejah Thoris, A Princess of Mars," in 1911, he had no idea that he was opening a new era in the science fiction field. THE OFFICIAL, DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO BARSOOMĬOME TO BARSOOM. On the other hand, Burroughs' works do not appear on the Project Gutenberg Canada site.Errata since first release (incorporated into files after 2/2017): In CanadaĪgain from here copyright ( on out-of-print editions) expires in Canada at life+50 years=2000. (according to this site) copyright is life+70 years = 2020. (ERB Inc has also been fighting to prevent adaptations and other use of ERB characters and settings that are already in public domain (under trademark law), but that presumably won't affect the ability to reprint/publish the works as is.) In the UK (?) ![]() I'm not 100% sure the copyrights have been renewed but I strongly suspect they have because ERB establishedĮdgar Rice Burroughs Inc. From Wikipedia, "Chessmen of Mars" (1922) should be the last in public domain the Barsoom books published between 19 will enter public domain between 2023 ( Master Mind of Mars, 1928) and 2043 (!!: Llana of Gathol, 1948). According to this source, for works published between 19 where the copyright has been renewed, copyright expires 95 years after the publication date. ![]()
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