Gulliver of Mars

Seven years before Edgar Rice Burroughs sent John Carter to Barsoom, Edwin Lester Arnold sent a New York man to Mars on a magic carpet. He wakes on a dying world of decayed cities, listless golden people who have forgotten their own history, and a princess borne away on the river of the dead. It sold badly, Arnold never wrote another novel, and readers have argued ever since about how much the pla...