The game is premised on the conflict between the Despot or acknowledged ruler vs. The idea that random events can play havoc with one’s strategy is so pervasive that in one scene a character says, “Resist strongly and fight for your lives much depends on the combat rolls for each move.” Makes me wonder if Stirling plays TTRPGs himself.Īnother divergence that makes Atanj so different from Jetan and chess is that while the latter two simulate only a battlefield, Atanj takes a leaf from Clausewitz and models politics as a whole.
While Jetan is closer to chess in that pieces simply capture each other on moving into the target’s square, in Atanj the players make dice rolls to determine what happens. And for a tabletop RPG player, the pleasure’s tripled. For the Barsoom fan, though, the pleasure’s doubled. This adds a lot of nice flavor to Stirling’s Mars, flavor I think can be appreciated even by those who’ve yet to read any Barsoom books. Like Jetan, Atanj is so much a part of Martian culture that many idioms are couched in its terms. Atanj is a chess-like game just like ERB’s Jetan, and as in Chessmen of Mars there’s a tense scene where the conflict takes the form of a game with living pieces. Stirling makes to Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Barsoom is the game Atanj. All Rights Reserved.One of the clearest yet most unique homages S.M. And the best of the imaginative writers of any generation is Edgar Rice Burroughs.ĭavid Bruce Version Copyright © 1996-2001, Revisions © 2003-2018Ĭopyright © 1982, 1996-2003 by David Bruce Bozarth. Give me Barsoom any day of the week! Get high on your own imagination. Nowadays it seems that most fantasies involve two or more of the opposite sex, a kilo of coke in a locked room or something else artificial. I'm just a plain old Texas boy who likes a little fantasy when he can. I am not a scholar, so don't look for scholarly work. I felt it was necessary to do this research independently to avoid having their influences or observations obstructing my compilation and comments. Others have done authoritative works on Barsoom but I have not read them as of yet.
#BARSOOM CHESS SERIES#
When I began work on Dead Cities of Mars in 1982 I re-read the entire series and took notes. I first read the Martian series between 19. When it is I hope you will enjoy it-until then my research produced a rather handy glossary of Barsoomian facts which should interest old and new fans of Burroughs' adventure tales set on the planet Mars.
Perhaps my manuscript Dead Cities of Mars will be available one day. What originally started as research to write a Barsoomian Spoof soon became an obsession to detail Edgar Rice Burroughs' wondrous Martian Saga. This website is the most up-to-date version.
#BARSOOM CHESS PDF#
To obtain an earlier version of A Barsoom Glossary in PDF format: right click Save As to keep a copy). Illustrations by various, including the author. Quotes from the works by Edgar Rice Burroughs are either in Quotes, Italics, or Blockquote format. Links are provided to other sections when applicable, but otherwise linking is kept to a minimum, each section is complete for presentation purposes. Footnotes (where applicable) are IN LINE with the appropriate paragraph.
Lists are usually presented in Alphabetical Order. Each section has internal navigation within itself, or one can return to this page to enter each section. That didn't happen however, since 1996 A BARSOOM GLOSSARY has become an internationally recognized on-line reference for the Martian works of Edgar Rice Burroughs.Ī Barsoom Glossary is presented in three major sections: People, Places, and Things. This glossary began as a writing aid for my Dead Cities of Mars pastiche I once hoped to market via print channels. Click EXTRAS to see what is NEW at A BARSOOM GLOSSARY!
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