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Friday Fun Thread for November 28, 2025

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So I finished A Fighting Man of Mars. While I found The Master Mind of Mars rote, boring and tedius in the extreme, A Fighting Man of Mars could easily be my favorite Barsoom novel, and actually a pretty damn good pulp scifi novel period. This one really goes places: Courtship and intrigue in the palaces of Helium, survival against the green hoards of the ancient seabeds, imprisonment in a far off city suspicious of outsiders, escaping ferocious ancient beast, encountering a psychopath, encountering a mad scientist, capturing a borderline magical flier, rescuing and losing the love interest several times a chapter, falling out of love with the bitch, the main character falling in love (predictably) with someone far more worthy. I know that's a run on sentence, but you have to understand I could have summarized the last novel in like 10 words. Really enjoyed that one. I would actually recommend it.

The Thirty-Year Old Barsoomer

•Lost his job because he literally cannot stop Barsooming

•Stayed in his Barsoom-cave so long that everyone thinks he’s dead

•Freed all his slaves so no one can walk in on him while he’s Barsooming

•”Is that a Princess of Mars?! Ahhhh I’m gonna BARSOOOM!”

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