

The text is available via Project Gutenberg Australia. The copyright for this story has expired in Australia, and thus now resides in the public domain there. The book's title was aped by that of the later novel Ylana of Callisto by Lin Carter, a volume in his Burroughs-inspired Callisto series. Finally they reach the land of Invak where the inhabitants have mastered the art of invisibility. They travel to the land of Pankor where soldiers are frozen and kept in reserve until needed for a war. The Gods of Mars, first published in 1918, is the second book in Burroughs Mars series. They find a valley occupied by Black Men who imprison them. They meet an ancient, mad hypnotist who has preserved people for nearly a million years by the power of hypnotism. The subsequent attempts to get Llana safely back home bring Carter, Llana and Pan Dan Chee, a young man they pick up along the way, through a series of adventures. The first complete edition of the novel was published in 1940 by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. It was first published in the magazine Argosy Weekly in six parts in early 1939. By one of those coincidences which are common in Burroughs's books, he discovers his own granddaughter, Llana of Gathol, who is being held captive. Synthetic Men of Mars is a science fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the ninth of his Barsoom series. In search of solitude, John Carter flies to the deserted city of Horz. The stories in this collection revolve around John Carter's granddaughter Llana of Gathol, who plays the " damsel in distress" role played by Dejah Thoris and Thuvia in earlier entries of the Barsoom series.
