Editing John Carter of Mars (section)

=A Winning Formula=
Barsoom was a ''huge'' hit, so much so that not only did Burroughs himself try to repeat his success with the ''Carson of Venus'' series, but at least two other major pulp novel series were born out of the style. 

[[Appendix N|Leigh Brackett]], perhaps better known these days for developing the love-triangle in ''[[Star Wars|The Empire Strikes Back]]'', back in 1949 to 1951 had created the ''Eric John Stark'' stories. These were pulp magazine novellas in ''Planet Stories'', before she rewrote them several times over up until the '80s. Eric, who combines and arguably slightly parodies elements of both John Carter and Tarzan, is the son of space-miners who died in a cave-in, leaving their child to be adopted and raised to maturity by the primitive humanoid aliens of the Mercurian Twilight Belt... who were killed by space pirates when Eric was a teenager, who would have killed him in the same way if a space cop hadn't shown up and rescued him. Skin burned a deep, glossy black by the intense sunlight of the Twilight Belt, Stark's origins made him intensely empathic towards the plight of the enslaved and oppressed aliens of the Solar System in the face of the colonizing Human powers, and he fought against them.

Then along came [[John Norman]] in the 1970s, whose [[Gor (John Norman)|Gor]] novels start out with the Barsoom formula, with an ordinary Earth guy being snatched away to a primitive, warlike "Counter-Earth" secretly ruled over by highly advanced insectoid aliens and becoming a much-respected warrior... then quickly devolved into exulting our protagonist and all his friends being a psychopathic bunch of misogynists who run around raping any woman who dares to think she has a life outside of cooking, cleaning and being a sex-toy.