num_pages: 30
description: S.M. Stirling, who has set some of his fiction on a Barsoom/Burroughs-esque Mars (Lords of Creation series, particularly In the Courts of the Crimson Kings) brings that pulpish sensibility to “Swords of Zar-Tu-Kan” mixed together tale of kidnap and rescue.This short story is the fourth in "Old Mars", edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois.
language: English
title: “SWORDS OF ZAR-TU-KAN” - 'Old Mars' Anthology#4
publisher: Bantam Books