Thuvia, Maid of Mars

A classic example of early 20th century American pulp fiction and planetary romance, Thuvia, Maid of Mars is the fourth of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Barsoom, or Martian, series. 


In this novel the subject of the Martian series becomes John Carter’s son, Carthoris, Prince of Helium and his love for Thuvia, Princess of Ptarth.  When Thuvia is kidnapped, her rescue takes Carthoris to Lothar.  To the Lotharians the mind is everything, and from pure thought they envisage a telepathic army of bowman, each paired with Barsoomian lions to fight against their enemies, the hideous Green Martians.  The Lotharian mind is so powerful that their imagined bowmen even appear to die in battle and the Green Martians are killed by Lotharian-imagined arrows.  The illusion and deaths are maintained because the Green Martians believe that the bowmen are real: a triumph of mind over matter. 


Burroughs also introduces the idea of autopilot decades before its actual invention.  


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