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The Master Mind of Mars

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First published: 1927
Pages: 141

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A Letter
7:36
Chapter I - The House of the Dead
24:45
Chapter II - Preferment
20:14
Chapter III - Valla Dia
34:44
Chapter IV - The Compact
29:51
Chapter V - Danger
20:45
Chapter VI - Suspicions
26:39
Chapter VII - Escape
21:32
Chapter VIII - Hands Up!
26:36
Chapter IX - The Palace of Mu Tel
34:18
Chapter X - Phundahl
25:49
Chapter XI - Xaxa
32:21
Chapter XII - The Great Tur
26:40
Chapter XIII - Back to Thavas
25:47
Chapter XIV - John Carter
25:29

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The Master Mind of Mars came out in 1928 and is another stand-alone novel in the Barsoom sequence, this time featuring a brand-new Earth protagonist. Ulysses Paxton, an American soldier mortally wounded in the trenches of the First World War, finds himself transported to Mars in much the same way John Carter did. He arrives in the laboratory of Ras Thavas, the legendary master mind of the title, a scientist who has perfected brain transplants.

Paxton works as Ras Thavas's assistant for a period, learning Martian medicine and surgery, before becoming entangled with one of the laboratory's victims: the beautiful Princess Valla Dia, whose youthful body has been swapped with that of an elderly hag who has paid Ras Thavas to do it. The novel becomes a quest to find Valla Dia's original body and reverse the swap. The ethical dilemmas around the body-swap technology and the question of personal identity make this one of the more interesting Burroughs novels in conceptual terms. The race politics are uneven. The pulp pacing is excellent.

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Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs was an American writer, recognized for his prolific output in the adventure, science fiction, and fantasy genres. Best known for creating the characters Tarzan and John Carter, he also wrote the Pellucidar series, the Amtor series, and the Caspak trilogy.