He is also the inverse of John Carter, in that Kal-el left a ravaged planet to find super powers on Earth, while John Carter left Earth for the ravaged planet of Mars (where he found super powers). John Carter was hopping around on Mars decades before Superman was doing the same in Metropolis. Clarke, James Cameron, and Michael Crichton have all referenced the impact these books had on them, or otherwise paid homage to these books within their own works. Ray Bradbury, HP Lovecraft, Carl Sagan, Robert Heinlein, Arthur C. The impact that A Princess of Mars had on the world of speculative fiction is hard to over state. That creation reportedly garnered him the biggest paydays from Hollywood of any author of the time. Shortly thereafter, he would go on to create Tarzan – one of the most seminal characters in early 20th century fiction (both in print and on screen). Recalling in 1929 that, “if people were paid for writing rot such as I read in some of those magazines, that I could write stories just as rotten.” So, in 1911, he started writing what would go on to become A Princess of Mars, the first book in his Barsoom series. Born in 1875, Edgar Rice Burroughs worked a number of odd jobs until, at the age of 35, he decided to pick up writing.
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