Chessmen of Mars

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• Publisher: The Floating Press
• Year: 2009
• Edition: 0
• eBook ISBN:
  9781775415855
• Topic: Literature
• Index: Literature

The fifth book in the popular Barsoom series, The Chessmen of Mars is a 1922 science fiction novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tara, princess of the great city state of Helium, is initially impervious to the courtship attempts of Gahan, prince of the city state Gathol. But when she loses control of her craft in a storm and is captured by the Kaldanes, horrific crab-like creatures who've sacrificed their bodies in the pursuit of intellect, the deeply smitten Gahan sets out to rescue his princess and prove his worth. But this is a challenge that may forfeit his life and hers, as he and his companions are forced to become pawns in a game of Jetan, Barsoomian Chess on a life-size board that uses the living as its pieces and the dead as its conquests.

Table of contents

• THE CHESSMEN OF MARS
• Contents
• Prelude — John Carter Comes to Earth
• Chapter I — Tara in a Tantrum
• Chapter II — At the Gale's Mercy
• Chapter III — The Headless Humans
• Chapter IV — Captured
• Chapter V — The Perfect Brain
• Chapter VI — In the Toils of Horror
• Chapter VII — A Repellent Sight
• Chapter VIII — Close Work
• Chapter IX — Adrift Over Strange Regions
• Chapter X — Entrapped
• Chapter XI — The Choice of Tara
• Chapter XII — Ghek Plays Pranks
• Chapter XIII — A Desperate Deed
• Chapter XIV — At Ghek's Command
• Chapter XV — The Old Man of the Pits
• Chapter XVI — Another Change of Name
• Chapter XVII — A Play to the Death
• Chapter XVIII — A Task for Loyalty
• Chapter XIX — The Menace of the Dead
• Chapter XX — The Charge of Cowardice
• Chapter XXI — A Risk for Love
• Chapter XXII — At the Moment of Marriage
• Jetan, or Martian Chess
• Endnotes