The Chessmen of Mars: Tara of Helium Among the Headless Kaldanes
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 55 full-page plates by John Martin, Frederic Edwin Church and Odilon Redon. Tara of Helium, who refuses the man she is meant to marry, is carried by a storm to a country where living heads ride headless bodies bred for the purpose. Burroughs invented the Kaldanes and the game of jetan for this book, and printed the rules of the game as an appendix so that readers could play it. The chess match at the end is played with living men on a squared field, and the pieces know what a lost square costs. Fifty-five plates, among them storm pieces by Frederic Edwin Church and Charles Cooper Henderson, carry the weather that drives Tara across the world and the strange skies above it.
Complete and unabridged, with 55 full-page plates by John Martin, Frederic Edwin Church and Odilon Redon. Tara of Helium, who refuses the man she is meant to marry, is carried by a storm to a country where living heads ride headless bodies bred for the purpose. Burroughs invented the Kaldanes and...
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Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) was an American writer born in Chicago who failed at ranching, gold dredging and pencil-sharpener sales before selling a story at thirty-five. He created Tarzan and John Carter of Mars, founded his own publishing company, and had a California town named after his character. His works include Tarzan of the Apes, A Princess of Mars, and A Fighting Man of Mars.
Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) was an American writer born in Chicago who failed at ranching, gold dredging and pencil-sharpener sales before selling a story at thirty-five. He created Tarzan and John Carter of Mars, founded his own publishing company, and had a California town named after his ...
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