Talk:The Master Mind of Mars

Brains

There was objection to the phrase "transplanting human brains" and "Martian" was substituted for "human". Since in Burroughs' concept, natives of Earth and Mars could produce offspring together, they are obviously both human, the whole egg-laying bit notwithstanding. But the whole issue can be rendered moot by omiting both "human" and "Martian" and saying "transplanting brains" -- so that's what I've changed it to. BPK 04:08, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

FWIW, Burroughs repeatedly refers to the inhabitants of Barsoom as both "Red Martians" and as "humans" numerous times. Sometimes it is through the first person voice of John Carter, who IIRC mostly uses "humans", and other times it is through third person narration which uses both. The white apes are described as "simians" a few times as well. I can't remember exactly if he calls the Green Martians humans or not, but it wouldn't surprise me as the term seems to apply to any vaguely intelligent hominoid.Lime in the Coconut 15:37, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

Gridley Wave Glitch

"Paxton's story is purportedly relayed back to earth via the Gridley Wave, a sort of super radio frequency previously introduced in Tanar of Pellucidar, the third of Burrough's Pellucidar novels, which thus provides a link between the two series." There is no mention of the Gridley Wave in this book, and the presumption is that John Carter transported Ulysses Paxton's manuscript to Burroughs. The Gridley Wave was not invented until Tanar of Pellucidar, written several years after this novel. I tried deleting the passage, but someone reverted it. -- M-K, 14 Sept 2006

Whoops, that was me, and now that you've jogged my memory, you're quite right. It was the story of A Fighting Man of Mars that was relayed (by Paxton) via Gridley Wave. Too many years since I've read those books... I'll go fix things again, assuming you haven't already. BPK 05:29, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Link to erb2ebook.blogspot.com

I added an external link to my blog page that is only intended to make available a better formated version of the book. Since no other reasonably formated version of the book is linked here and therefore easily available to the reader of the article, I believe that this link actually is complying with the scope of wikipedia - making information available to everyone. Please let me know your opinion and accept my apologies if I am wrong and let me know what better way is to make the epub version of the book easily available to everyone. I am new to wikipedia. RC87 (talk) 21:00, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

cover in 2024

This work will be definitively public domain in the United States on January 1, 2024. To that end it needs the cover updated with a public domain version, so I found this image to use. SDudley (talk) 02:25, 13 November 2023 (UTC)