Chuck Dixon’s new ebook is now available from Amazon. I would argue that it is every bit as good as the John Carter novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs that inspired it; this is a project that has been at the back of The Legend’s mind for literal decades and it shows. For those who purchased the Signed First Edition, this ebook release is part of that process, as the ebook readers will help us eliminate as many typos as we can before we start laying out the hardcovers and the leatherbound edition. And, of course, a copy of the ebook will go out to all the Signed First Edition buyers before the end of this weekend. The cover of the ebook, and the coming print editions, features an original illustration by Joe Bennett.
On the dying world of Barsoom, where ancient seas have turned to dust and the last water on the planet is at the polar ice caps, Kal Keddaq is running for his life. A ten-foot-tall green warrior of the Warhoon tribe, he’s committed the ultimate blunder by violating a fatal taboo. Now branded an outcast by his own people and hunted across the merciless Martian wastelands, Kal must reach the settlements at the edge of the northern ice cap before his water runs out, his mounts die, or the mysterious bronze-skinned bounty man tracking him finally closes in for the kill.
Set more than one thousand years after a visitor from Earth first walked the deserts of the Red Planet, Chuck Dixon’s GUNS OF MARS plunges readers into a thrilling survival odyssey across the desolate grandeur of the Mars of Edgar Rice Burroughs. As Kal races north through scorching deserts and treacherous ice fields, his desperate flight becomes entangled with something far more dangerous than a mere personal vendetta. Is the relentless bounty hunter pursuing him his greatest threat, or his only ally, against forces that threaten every living being and tribe clinging to existence on the dying planet?
Packed with breathtaking action, exotic alien landscapes, and the gritty frontier justice of the Old West, GUNS OF MARS delivers classic sword-and-planet adventure for a new generation. As the longtime writer of BATMAN and THE PUNISHER, comics legend Chuck Dixon skillfully combines a brutal battle for survival with breathtaking world-building, creating a page-turning tale where honor, desperation, and raw courage collide beneath the orange skies of a world breathing its last. A perfect book for fans of classic planetary romance, Westerns, and science fiction adventure.
As with DEATH AND THE DEVIL and OUT OF THE SHADOWS, the Signed First Edition of GUNS OF MARS will feature original chapter-heading illustrations from Arkhaven artist Ademir Leal.
