John Carter rescues his granddaughter from a series of hidden countries (on Mars!).

2/4 (Indifferent)

This collects four stories. Only one of them has an idea for a story (an ancient undead creature). The other three are not just bad, but made worse by collecting them together.

(Nov. 2021) ( )

Formulaic, typical of the genre in the early SF days ( )

Not really a 4 star book unless you really like ERB & the Barsoom series. This is one of the best in that series. ( )

This is a patchup of 4 pulp novelettes with the connecting link that John Carter is trying to get home to Helium. During the odyssey, he battles pirates, invisible men, yellow men, and warriors of every city he visits. The individual stories are better than the whole. The long awited final battle is covered in a couple paragraphs and is anti-climactic at best.
If read as an individual story, it's pretty good. If you're doing a chronological reading of the Barsoom series, by the time you reach Llana of Gathol, you're tired of the formula. ( )

Actually four related short stories combined in a serial novel.
Llana's story is generic window-dressing; as always, the main plot is about John Carter.
The content is basically a clone of the earlier books, with little new substance. However, sometimes you just want to read about a hero or two.

Note on book: First published as four novellettes in "Amazing Stories" Magazine as follows: "The City of Mummies", March, 1941; "Black Pirates of Barsoom", June, 1941; "Yellow Men of Mars", August, 1941; "Invisible Men of Mars", October, 1941. ( )