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A Princess of Mars

By Michael Berry, Common Sense Media Reviewer

age 14+

Old-style planetary romance is basis of John Carter film.

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A PRINCESS OF MARS is a product of another age, an adventure written to entertain an unsophisticated readership. Scientifically impossible and often woodenly narrated, it may be too old-fashioned for readers used to the best science fiction now available. But the book has been hugely influential, displays a good-natured innocence and certainly doesn't lack for action.

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