Carson of Venus

Carson of Venus
dust-jacket of Carson of Venus
Author	Edgar Rice Burroughs
Cover artist	John Coleman Burroughs
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Amtor
Genre	Science fantasy
Publisher	Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.
Publication date	1939
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	312
Preceded by	Lost on Venus
Followed by	Escape on Venus

Carson of Venus is the third book in the Venus series (Sometimes called the "Carson Napier of Venus series") by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Burroughs wrote the novel in July and August 1937. It was serialized in 1938 in six weekly installments from January 8 to February 12 in Argosy, the same publication where the previous two Venus novels appeared. It was published in book form a year later from Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. Burroughs originally submitted the novel to a number of the "slick" magazines: Liberty, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, and Ladies' Home Journal. All rejected the story.^[1]

The novel, which was written two years before the outbreak of World War II, satirizes Nazi Germany by including a fascist political faction called the "Zani." There is also a character named "Muso" as a reference to Benito Mussolini. Unlike the first two Venus novels, Carson of Venus focuses on spy intrigue and war instead of wilderness adventuring.^[2] It also indicates a change of political orientation from that of the earlier books, where the villains were modeled on Russian Communists.

Carson of Venus was nominated for a Retro Hugo Award for best science fiction novel of 1939. The award went to T. H. White's The Sword in the Stone.

Copyright

The copyright for this story has expired in Australia, and thus now resides in the public domain there. The text is available via Project Gutenberg Australia.

Preceded by Lost on Venus	Venus series Carson of Venus	Succeeded by Escape on Venus

References

↑ Hillman, Bill. "Edgar Rice Burroughs Timeline: 1930–1939." ERBzine.
↑ Harvey, Ryan. "Edgar Rice Burroughs's Venus, Part 3: Carson of Venus". Black Gate

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Works by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Tarzan novels	Tarzan of the Apes (1912) The Return of Tarzan (1913) The Beasts of Tarzan (1914) The Son of Tarzan (1915) Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar (1916) Tarzan the Terrible (1921) Tarzan and the Golden Lion (1922/23) Tarzan and the Ant Men (1924) Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle (1927/28) Tarzan and the Lost Empire (1928/29) Tarzan at the Earth's Core (1929/30) Tarzan the Invincible (1930/31) Tarzan Triumphant (1931/32) Tarzan and the City of Gold (1932) Tarzan and the Lion Man (1933/34) Tarzan and the Leopard Men (1932/33) Tarzan's Quest (1935/36) Tarzan and the Forbidden City (1938) Tarzan and the Foreign Legion (1947) Tarzan and the Madman (1964) Tarzan: The Lost Adventure (1995)

Tarzan collections	Jungle Tales of Tarzan (1919) Tarzan the Untamed (1920) Tarzan the Magnificent (1939) Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins (1963) Tarzan and the Castaways (1965)

Tarzan short stories	Tarzan's First Love (1916) The Capture of Tarzan (1916) The Fight for the Balu (1916) The God of Tarzan (1916) Tarzan and the Black Boy (1917) The Witch-Doctor Seeks Vengeance (1917) The End of Bukawai (1917) The Lion (1917) The Nightmare (1917) The Battle for Teeka (1917) A Jungle Joke (1917) Tarzan Rescues the Moon (1917) Tarzan the Untamed (1919) Tarzan and the Valley of Luna (1920) The Tarzan Twins (1927) Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins with Jad-Bal-Ja the Golden Lion (1936) Tarzan and the Magic Men (1936) Tarzan and the Elephant Men (1937/38) Tarzan and the Champion (1940) Tarzan and the Jungle Murders (1940) Tarzan and the Castaways (1941)

Other jungle adventures	The Man-Eater (1915) The Cave Girl (1925) The Eternal Lover (1925) Jungle Girl (1932) The Lad and the Lion (1938)

Martian series	A Princess of Mars (1917) The Gods of Mars (1918) The Warlord of Mars (1919) Thuvia, Maid of Mars (1920) The Chessmen of Mars (1922) The Master Mind of Mars (1928) A Fighting Man of Mars (1931) Swords of Mars (1936) Synthetic Men of Mars (1940) Llana of Gathol (1948) John Carter of Mars (1964)

Pellucidar series	At the Earth's Core (1914) Pellucidar (1915) Tanar of Pellucidar (1929) Tarzan at the Earth's Core (1929) Back to the Stone Age (1937) Land of Terror (1944) Savage Pellucidar (1963)

Venus series	Pirates of Venus (1934) Lost on Venus (1935) Carson of Venus (1939) Escape on Venus (1946) The Wizard of Venus (1964)

Caspak series	The Land That Time Forgot (1918) The People That Time Forgot (1918) Out of Time's Abyss (1918)

Other speculative fiction	Beyond Thirty (1915) The Moon Maid (1926) The Monster Men (1929) "The Resurrection of Jimber-Jaw" (1937) Beyond the Farthest Star (1941) Tales of Three Planets (1964)

Westerns	The Bandit of Hell's Bend (1926) The War Chief (1927) Apache Devil (1933) The Deputy Sheriff of Comanche County (1940)

Historical novels	The Outlaw of Torn (1914/1927) I Am a Barbarian (1967)

Ruritanian romances	The Mad King (1926) The Rider (1918)

Contemporary novels	The Mucker (1914/16) The Girl from Farris's (1916) The Oakdale Affair (1918) The Efficiency Expert (1921) The Girl from Hollywood (1923) Pirate Blood (1970) Marcia of the Doorstep (1999)

Other works	The Oakdale Affair and The Rider (1937) Beyond Thirty and The Man-Eater (1957) Minidoka: 937th Earl of One Mile Series M (1998) You Lucky Girl! (1999) Forgotten Tales of Love and Murder (2001)

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