Talk:Barsoom

message: The literary influence might be better at a Martian Tales, with this article more focussed on description of Barsoom proper. Stan 08:42, 18 Jan 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: This new section needs a reference, or it will have to be deleted. Rick Norwood 18:50, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Barsoom in Roman mythology 

message: See Talk:Bran Mak Morn#Ownership edits. 69.182.106.50 19:52, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Ownership edits

message: The article mentions that the first five novels have had their copyright expired. I am wondering if anyone has access to the illustrations and/or cover art of these books? We have one picture, which is great, but I think the article would look better with more. -- Sam Barsoom (talk) 18:59, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pictures 

message: The article suggests that the apt has four limbs, but in my 1985 copy of Warlord of Mars, on page 79, we are told the apt has 6 limbs.  This discrepancy should be addressed.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.96.88.118 (talk) 20:26, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: A huge, white-furred creature with six limbs, four of which, short and heavy, carry it over the snow and ice; the other two, which grow forward from its shoulders on either side of its long, powerful neck, terminate in white, hairless hands with which it seizes and holds its prey.
So it has six limbs but could be said to have four feet.  This might be the cause of the confusion. 84.215.6.188 (talk) 03:05, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

text: *Project Gutenberg Australia seems not to have Maid of Mars, but this link works:  https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Thuvia+Maid+of+Mars&go=Go "Apt. An Arctic monster. A huge, white-furred creature with six limbs, four of which, short and heavy, carry it over the snow and ice; the other two, which grow forward from its shoulders on either side of its long, powerful neck, terminate in white, hairless hands with which it seizes and holds its prey. Its head and mouth are similar in appearance to those of a hippopotamus, except that from the sides of the lower jawbone two mighty horns curve slightly downward toward the front. Its two huge eyes extend in two vast oval patches from the centre of the top of the cranium down either side of the head to below the roots of the horns, so that these weapons really grow out from the lower part of the eyes, which are composed of several thousand ocelli each. Each ocellus is furnished with its own lid, and the apt can, at will, close as many of the facets of his huge eyes as he chooses." Illustrations are claimed to be given for some Gutenberg versions, but they aren't provided. - 50.82.34.186 (talk) 05:36, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Apt

message: Have done a fairly major revision and expansion of the article, trying to reference as much as possible. I have pretty run out of sources for the time being, so if anyone has any more for the unreferenced stuff it would help - particularly some of the details about the world like the fauna section which is completely unsourced at the moment (anyone with a copy of The Reader's Guide to Barsoom and Amtor, 	
A guide to Barsoom or such could help a lot here, doubt I am going to find a copy of either or anything like it in a hurry). Some of the refs are still a bit of a mess, one source in particularly I will return and unravel when the pain of figuring it all out goes away, as it references 5-6 pages when the info is usually on one or two of them. Character focus, Form and Motifs is missing quite a few references too, although I think most of this stuff is pretty true to the books... hope it is:) 
Mesmacat (talk) 10:25, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Barsoom Article

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thread_title: Image copyright problem with File:Gulliver of Mars.jpg

message: "Some of Barsoom's other major physical features do correspond to albedo features of Mars known at the time, flipped upside-down in reflection of the images of the planet as seen through telescopes. For instance, Burroughs' snow-covered Artolian Hills can be roughly equated to the bright feature Hellas (actually a huge impact crater), and the Great Toonolian Marshes to the dark feature represented by the Valles Marineris."
:Took out this paragraph which seemed like speculation to me, but can of course be returned to the article is someone provides a context as where these ideas come from or a reference. Mesmacat (talk) 08:09, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Correlation between martian geographical feaures and barsoom

message: The origin of the word Barsoom cannot logically be words [he made up] from the languages spoken by the peoples in his novels, because if he made them up, he could have chosen any word. Isn't Barsoom just pig latin for Mars?--87.162.29.223 (talk) 16:14, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Word origin 

message: The section on measurement gives the sofad as "11.68+ inches".  This appears to be based on a fan-club's working out of details; dividing a modern figure for the Martian equator by 360, 100, 200 then 10 does indeed arrive at about this.
However, the actual values given in Thuvia, Maid of Mars, part way through Chapter VI, are off from this – and not consistent with one another:
: On Barsoom the AD is the basis of linear measurement.  It is the equivalent of an Earthly foot, measuring about 11.694 Earth inches.
Note that this is the ad, not the sofad.
: A haad, or Barsoomian mile, contains about 2,339 Earth feet.  A karad is one degree.  A sofad about 1.17 Earth inches.
Note that 11.694×200 = 2338.8, so the given number of feet in the haad would be the consistent number of inches in 200 ad.
The glossary at the end of the same work also gives the "Od" as "Martian foot", clearly sorted under O in the alphabetic ordering.
I am consequently inclined to suppose Burroughs messed up; this is, at least, worth mention in the section.  Are there later books of the series that corrected the inconsistencies in Thuvia ? 84.215.6.188 (talk) 03:20, 6 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Burroughs gave the first set of figures in Thuvia: Maid of Mars.  Later on, in A Fighting Man of Mars, he used more recent data regarding the size of the planet to recalculate the derived measurements.  Even so, some of the results are confusing.  I recall that John F. Roy, in his Guide to Barsoom tried to solve the problems by coming up with an intermediate unit of measure.WHPratt (talk) 16:21, 28 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Measurement 

message: The image :File:Pioneer plaque.svg included in this section of the article does not have any adequate or apparent explanation as to why it apppears.  Specifically, there is no text with which it correlates or that demonstrates why it needs to be used to illustrate the themes of this page.  The only providence seems to be that Carl Sagan is mentioned to be a fan, and the fact that Mr. Sagan co-conceived the imagery of this plaque has no relation to Barsoomian fiction.  This is a suggestion that it be removed as it does not compare to the degree of relevancy on this page that every other image has. meta4 08:14, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Plaque image has been removed as no watchlist feedback was received during a 48 hour period. meta4 17:24, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: "The series has inspired a number of well known science fiction writers in the 20th century, and also key scientists involved in both space exploration and the search for extraterrestrial life." From the introduction. "Burroughs' Barsoom series was extremely popular with American readers and many scientists who grew up reading the novels, and helped inspire public support for the US space program." - from the section.  Mesmacat (talk) 23:26, 7 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Burroughs' influence - On scientists 

message: Has anybody taken a look at article on HAL 9000? There's reference to Project Barsoom from A.C Clarkes novel 2001 A Space Odyssey :)Noseball (talk) 23:54, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Arthur Clarke & Project Barsoom

message: It's quite obvious -- and has been noted for decades -- that John Carter and the Giant of Mars, published in Amazing Stories in 1941, was adapted from the 1940 Whitman "Better Little Book"  entitled John Carter of Mars.  John Coleman Burroughs illustrated the story, and the format called for 50% of the book to be full page pictures depicting the facing text.  JCB says that he collaborated with his famous father on the text.  The Whitman edition was aimed at children, and so had to be adapted towards an adult readership for the sale to Amazing.  That would explain any remaining "juvenile" quality without further disparaging JCB's writing.  The facts are related in Richard Lupoff's introduction to the Canaveral Press 1964 edition of John Carter of Mars, which contained the controversial story. WHPratt (talk) 04:08, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Re; Authorship [of John Carter and the Giant of Mars] 

message: Seems to me this could be split into "Barsoom series" and "Barsoom", the latter being the article on the fictional world, the former being the article on the book series by ERB. lots of work, but with the film coming out, Barsoom will likely now be highly notable.(mercurywoodrose)75.61.137.98 (talk) 04:44, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Split

message: Would it be possible to create a comic book page(s) specifically for the Dynamite comics?
Tng88 (talk) 03:07, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comic Books 

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message: Can someone provide a verification link for the current statement regarding the copyright: "However, because they were separately copyrighted in Great Britain, these works remain protected under the Berne Copyright Convention in the UK and throughout much of the world." RISadler (talk) 09:51, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, since nobody has been willing to substantiate the statement made regarding copyright and since said statement is in actual fact wrong, I make the suggestion that it must be either deleted or corrected. RISadler (talk) 06:22, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright