![]() ![]() It also includes the less common but still humanoid Yellow Martians of the North Polar regions and the Black Pirates of the South Pole and Rift Valley. This list covers the majority humanoid race on Barsoom, the Red Martians, and covers all of their city states, including Helium, Ptarth, Kaol, Jahar, Dusar and so on. Upgrade Jed or Jeddak to John Carter or similar mighty swordsmanĪny but Black Pirates and Yellow Martians: Jed or Jeddak and Retinue Blade General 2AP 1 Red Martian, Yellow Martian and Black Pirate Peter Pig do very nice ready made Green and Red Martian armies in 15mm. The eleven books in the series are: A Princess of Mars, Gods of Mars, Warlord of Mars, Thuvia, Maid of Mars, Chessmen of Mars, Mastermind of Mars, Fighting Man of Mars, Swords of Mars, Synthetic Men of Mars, Llana of Gathol and John Carter of Mars. Each of the following lists is designed to give a standard 24AP army and no more than half of the points can be spent on elements costing 3AP or more. 'Barsoom' is the name given by Martians to their own world Earth is called 'Jasoom'. ![]() ![]() Two lists for these books are presented in the original rules book, but they are incomplete and, in my opinion, slightly inaccurate. Although the writing is up to his usual standard, the plots are repetitive and the 'science' is laughable, the series is a rollicking good read and also provides scope for a series of 'Hordes of the Things' army lists. Kaor! And I’ll see you all on Barsoom one day.Map of Barsoom by Scott Bizar via ERBzineīarsoomian Army Lists for Hordes of the Things by Alan SaundersĮdgar Rice Burroughs wrote the eleven books that make up the Martian series between 19. Which is pretty much all any of us can hope for, when you get right down to it. So, in the end, here I am where I longed to be. You’d think a boy would get the hint by now, but it was third-time lucky for me, and we moved on out to our “country estate,” sometimes referred to in the forewords to my eBooks as the Barking Spider Ranch. Somewhere in there, as the 1980s passed into the 1990s, and then on into the 21st century, I married again, divorced again, and married for a third time. My novelette “Age of Aquarius” was nominated for the Hugo Award, and novel Acts of Conscience received a Special Citation of Excellence from the Philip K. More books followed, both in collaboration and solo, and I began to write increasingly for the science fiction magazines. Somewhere toward the end of that decade, boyhood chum Michael Capobianco and I wrote an ambitious science fiction novel named Iris. It was, and I swiftly moved on to a new career as a computer programmer, working for a variety of companies and eventually hanging out my shingle as a free-lance software architect. In the 1980s, cheap computers came along, and I bought one, thinking it might be an interesting hobby. I spent several years as a single parent, which was perhaps a more worthwhile education than the one I tried to get around the same time as a part-time student at the University of New Hampshire. During that time, I married, we had a kid, and after a while, were divorced. In the 1970s, after I dropped out of NVCC, I wrote more books and stories, but mainly I worked at a series of increasingly challenging jobs as what amounted to a mechanical engineering technician, ending up as a marine machinery mechanic at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. Imagine the surprise of my hard-working friends, who graduated from their universities and became computer programmers, used-car salesmen, and postal carriers. It was while there that I composed a novella called Hunting On Kunderer, which I sold to Ace Books. When that failed to happen, for lack of anything better to do, I enrolled in the Liberal Arts curriculum at Northern Virginia Community College. Pretty soon, those stories began to take shape on paper, and some of us got the idea we could grow up to be what we called “authors.” Eventually, I finished high school, graduating in the bottom tenth of my class.Īfter high school, my friends, who studied harder than I did, went away to college, and I waited to be whisked away to Vietnam with all the other lazy boys. As we tramped among the trees and waded through the creeks, we role-played stories from the books we read, and in due course, began making up worlds of our own, on which stories could be told. I grew up as slowly as slowly as possible, reading science fiction, fantasy, and historical novels and wandering around the woods with a cadre of friends who were more or less interested in those same things. My father was in college, studying to be a geologist, and my mother was working in an ice cream parlor. The Korean Police Action was under way, and Edgar Rice Burroughs had only recently left California for Barsoom. I was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on September 28, 1950. ![]()
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