![]() ![]() May not be a scientifically accurate catastrophe - but then neither is the presence of an advanced culture on Mars. Hellas is approximately as deep as Everest is high so that's not entirely implausible. Caused by the Hellas impact triggering major and sustained volcanic activity around Olympus Mons. The desertification & loss of atmosphere are evident in the "Winter" map. The primary deviation from descriptions of Barsoom is the Lost Sea of Korus being in the North rather than the South. The details for canals & overlay terrains will use maps of Lowell's canals, those from several Barsoom fansites showing the cities placed on an accurate Mars, as well as some Space 1889 sites such as this one. The primary map used for the terrain was the color coded topographic map available at the USGS site, with these terraformed images as a general guide. ![]() Based it off the maps posted on some research websites - including some showing what a terraformed Mars would look like. Barsoomian ships might look something like their flyers - did they evolve from the former? NB: These are for a steampunk scenario combining Barsoom with elements from other sources (Space: 1889, Edison's Conquest of Mars, Lieutenant Gullivar Jones: His Vacation, etc.) Balthasar is also working on a more strictly ERB Barsoom scenario.Ĭlick to expand.Hadn't thought about navies. Less water in Hellas crater - central summit island?.More volcanos, especially in Olympus Mons region.Mix Northern desert/plains borders to lessen coastline effect.More South Polar tundra (snow hills & mts).Add artificial rivers as beginnings of canals.Follow Spring pattern for forests & jungles but reduce in size.Add rivers & replace some lakes with flood plains or swamps.Break up large swathes of similar terrain.Break up too geometrical regions such as straight line ranges.Need to put lm terrain such as badlands in place of some hilly areas. No placement yet of overlay terrain such as forests & rivers. These are at the initial stage of conversion using bmp2bic. This book details that process with three dozen colorful maps and other illustrations, a history of Barsoom over the past million years, and a Gazetteer for all locations mentioned in the novels.Maps are 256x256 - I like large maps. Painstakingly referencing clues in all eleven books, plus astronomical observations of the Red Planet spanning a hundred years, noted historian and cartographer Oberon Zell has created the definitive map of Burroughs’ Barsoom. Over the past century, many fans have tried to compile such a map, but none have truly succeeded. These were the first sci-fi adventure tales ever written that took place on another world, with alien races, civilizations, and creatures-and they pre-ceded and inspired every subsequent extra-planetary adventure series from Flash Gordon to Star Trek and Star Wars.īut despite locating the adventures of John Carter on the canal-covered Mars depicted by Victorian astronomers, Burroughs never provided a map showing the locations of his Barsoomian cities and other features. Burroughs’ Barsoom was a dying world of ancient ruined cities, dry seabeds, desert-spanning canals, towering mountains, polar ice caps, dense forests, and under-ground rivers. The first novel was A Princess of Mars, and it was followed by ten more books over the next 30 years plus countless comic books, and in 2012, a spectacular Disney movie, John Carter.Įnthralled readers encountered the incomparable Martian Princess Dejah Thoris four-armed giant Green Men hideous blue Plant Men Thoats, Calots, Banths, Apts, White Apes and other multi-legged Martian beasts. Over one hundred years ago, in 1911, Edgar Rice Burroughs (the creator of Tarzan) introduced an astonished readership to the adventures of John Carter, a Civ-il War soldier from Virginia who, in 1866, found himself trans-ported to the planet Mars. ![]()
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