The Gods of Mars (version 2): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Gods of Mars (version 2), credited to Edgar Rice Burroughs, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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In this second volume of the Barsoom series, John Carter returns to Mars to learn that his heroic effort to salvage the atmosphere plant saved the planet's inhabitants, but he finds himself in the land of the dead. Luck restores his friends and even his son to him, and with them he escapes his imprisonment after unmasking (but not deposing) the cruel "goddess" Issus. He finds the Martians unready, however, to fling off their ancient religion and face the frightful truth of what "eternal peace" awaits those who make the voluntary pilgrimage to the Valley Dor. Worse, his wife's father and grandfather have failed to return from searching for him, and his wife in despair has taken the fatal pilgrimage down the River Iss. In their absence his worst enemy has seized power, and since John Carter has committed the unforgivable crime of returning from the land of the dead, all agree—for different reasons and with different intentions—that he must return to it. (Summary by T. A. Copeland) Narrated by Thomas Copeland

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Gods of Mars (version 2)
• Author credits: Edgar Rice Burroughs
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 23
• Listed recording duration: 8:41:34

Catalogue topics

• Space Opera
• science fiction
• war
• love
• religious superstition

Track guide

1. Foreward — 7:28
2. Chapter 01 — 27:15
3. Chapter 02 — 26:37
4. Chapter 03 — 29:21
5. Chapter 04 — 25:06
6. Chapter 05 — 19:28
7. Chapter 06 — 17:01
8. Chapter 07 — 23:44
9. Chapter 08 — 28:23
10. Chapter 09 — 21:49
11. Chapter 10 — 21:13
12. Chapter 11 — 27:10
13. Chapter 12 — 14:45
14. Chapter 13 — 27:42
15. Chapter 14 — 30:38
16. Chapter 15 — 17:34
17. Chapter 16 — 22:29
18. Chapter 17 — 19:26
19. Chapter 18 — 16:13
20. Chapter 19 — 29:43
21. Chapter 20 — 26:59
22. Chapter 21 — 16:43
23. Chapter 22 — 24:57

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