The Chessmen Of Mars Author:Edgar Rice Burroughs If you enjoyed the chess game in Harry Potter, this science fiction book is for you. Edgar Rice Burroughs was born in 1875 in Chicago, Illinois. Although Burroughs wrote in many genres he is best known for creating the jungle hero Tarzan. Burroughs began writing for pulp fiction magazines and in 1912 he published Tarzan of the Burroughs ha... more »s also written several exciting adventure tales set on Mars. In The Chessmen of Mars the reader visits an outlaw city where chess is played with living men who fight to the death for possession of squares.« less
Throughout the novel, Gahan is forced to prove himself in the approved heroic manner of all Burroughsian protagonists in his effort to win Tara's heart. As always, the heroine must be rescued from numerous perils and sticky situations.