Thuvia, Maid of Mars
core novel 1920 Barsoom
Record
| First published | 1920 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.77 (10,120 ratings, collected 2026-09-07) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781945462818 |
| Internal chronology | 4 |
Synopsis
Thuvia, Maid of Mars shifts focus to Carthoris, the son of John Carter and Dejah Thoris, who has fallen in love with Thuvia of Ptarth even though she is already promised in marriage to another prince. When Thuvia is abducted and circumstances falsely implicate Carthoris in her disappearance, he sets out across Barsoom's dangerous southern regions to clear his name and find her before the misunderstanding ignites open war between rival red Martian nations. His search leads him into the territory of the Lotharians, an ancient, dwindling telepathic race capable of conjuring phantom warriors so convincing they can fight and kill, a power that complicates every stage of his pursuit. Balancing the personal urgency of rescuing Thuvia against the looming threat of a continent-spanning conflict, Carthoris must rely on both courage and cunning as he unravels the plot behind her kidnapping.
Where it sits
- Universe: Barsoom
- Series: Barsoom core; position 4 of 11 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Notes
- ISBN recorded is the Edgar Rice Burroughs Authorized Library hardcover (Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.); the first book edition predates ISBNs.
- From the series record (Barsoom): Edgar Rice Burroughs' foundational planetary-romance saga of the fictional Mars ('Barsoom'), beginning with A Princess of Mars. All eleven books first appeared as magazine serials (1912-1943, Weird Tales/All-Story/Blue Book/Amazing Stories/Argosy) before their book-form publication years recorded here. Llana of Gathol (1948) is a fix-up of four linked novelettes; John Carter of Mars (1964) is a posthumous collection of two novellas. Genre-boundary transparency: the series is routinely classified as science fantasy / planetary romance, blending science-fiction trappings (interplanetary travel) with sword-and-sorcery adventure and magic-adjacent Barsoomian technology; critical and reference consensus (Wikipedia, genre reference works) treats it as fantasy-adjacent and foundational to the sword-and-planet subgenre, admitted here on that basis, the same transparency this project has applied to Pern and other genre-boundary cases. No awards could be confidently corroborated against a primary source at this pass; none are recorded.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Barsoom: position 4 of 11: previous The Warlord of Mars (1919) · next The Chessmen of Mars (1922)
Sources
- Wikipedia: Barsoom
- Wikipedia: Edgar Rice Burroughs bibliography
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thuvia,_Maid_of_Mars
- Snowbound Books (Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. edition record)
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