This is the first John Carter of Mars novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the author of the Tarzan books. It was his first novel, published in 1917 and it’s a work of rip-roaring science fiction that has inspired many of the great writers in the genre.
Chapter 8: John Carter finds himself in the middle of a raging battle between his captors on the ground and enormous Martian airships. Then he becomes enthralled by an unusual prisoner.
You’ll find regular podcasts of all the chapters over the next couple of months. Subscribe to our feed.
This book contains pirate battles, violence and death. Please use your judgment before playing for very young children.
Here’s a free podcast of our fantastic pirate adventure novel written for young readers. It’s got hidden scrolls, time travel, ships, battles, navigation, gold, islands, jungles and helicopters in it.
Description:
Young Jack Spencer sees his father’s boat-building business destroyed by a powerful land developer. Then Jack unearths three ancient scrolls that propel him on a dangerous adventure through time in search of a pirate treasure.
When Jack finds himself aboard the pirate ship Revenge with Captain Jameson’s crew, he enters a life or death world of ship battles, jungle islands, prison escapes, gold, and treachery.
Set during the golden age of Caribbean piracy, Pirate Jack combines rollicking adventure with the moving story of a boy’s love for his father and a courageous effort to save a way of life.
You’ll find regular podcasts of all the chapters over the next couple of months. Subscribe to our feed.
This book contains pirate battles, violence and death. Please use your judgment before playing for very young children.
Here’s a free podcast of our fantastic pirate adventure novel written for young readers. It’s got hidden scrolls, time travel, ships, battles, navigation, gold, islands, jungles and helicopters in it.
Description:
Young Jack Spencer sees his father’s boat-building business destroyed by a powerful land developer. Then Jack unearths three ancient scrolls that propel him on a dangerous adventure through time in search of a pirate treasure.
When Jack finds himself aboard the pirate ship Revenge with Captain Jameson’s crew, he enters a life or death world of ship battles, jungle islands, prison escapes, gold, and treachery.
Set during the golden age of Caribbean piracy, Pirate Jack combines rollicking adventure with the moving story of a boy’s love for his father and a courageous effort to save a way of life.
You’ll find regular podcasts of all the chapters over the next couple of months. Subscribe to our feed.
This book contains pirate battles, violence and death. Please use your judgment before playing for very young children.
Here’s a free podcast of our fantastic pirate adventure novel written for young readers. It’s got hidden scrolls, time travel, ships, battles, navigation, gold, islands, jungles and helicopters in it.
Description:
Young Jack Spencer sees his father’s boat-building business destroyed by a powerful land developer. Then Jack unearths three ancient scrolls that propel him on a dangerous adventure through time in search of a pirate treasure.
When Jack finds himself aboard the pirate ship Revenge with Captain Jameson’s crew, he enters a life or death world of ship battles, jungle islands, prison escapes, gold, and treachery.
Set during the golden age of Caribbean piracy, Pirate Jack combines rollicking adventure with the moving story of a boy’s love for his father and a courageous effort to save a way of life.
You’ll find regular podcasts of all the chapters over the next couple of months. Subscribe to our feed.
Cartoon Brew TV is showing this student animation called The Terrible Thing of Alpha-9! It was directed by Jake Armstrong as his thesis for the School of Visual Arts. It’s got a very free drawing style and combines a great sci-fi sensibility with gentle humor. If you head over to Cartoon Brew, they’ve got a full interview with the director with lots of information about the making of the film.
This is the first John Carter of Mars novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the author of the Tarzan books. It was his first novel, published in 1917 and it’s a work of rip-roaring science fiction that has inspired many of the great writers in the genre.
Chapter 7: John Carter is allowed to accompany an expedition that explains where martian babies come from.
You’ll find regular podcasts of all the chapters over the next couple of months. Subscribe to our feed.
This book contains pirate battles, violence and death. Please use your judgment before playing for very young children.
Here’s a free podcast of our fantastic pirate adventure novel written for young readers. It’s got hidden scrolls, time travel, ships, battles, navigation, gold, islands, jungles and helicopters in it.
Description:
Young Jack Spencer sees his father’s boat-building business destroyed by a powerful land developer. Then Jack unearths three ancient scrolls that propel him on a dangerous adventure through time in search of a pirate treasure.
When Jack finds himself aboard the pirate ship Revenge with Captain Jameson’s crew, he enters a life or death world of ship battles, jungle islands, prison escapes, gold, and treachery.
Set during the golden age of Caribbean piracy, Pirate Jack combines rollicking adventure with the moving story of a boy’s love for his father and a courageous effort to save a way of life.
You’ll find regular podcasts of all the chapters over the next couple of months. Subscribe to our feed.
This book contains pirate battles, violence and death. Please use your judgment before playing for very young children.
Here’s a free podcast of our fantastic pirate adventure novel written for young readers. It’s got hidden scrolls, time travel, ships, battles, navigation, gold, islands, jungles and helicopters in it.
Description:
Young Jack Spencer sees his father’s boat-building business destroyed by a powerful land developer. Then Jack unearths three ancient scrolls that propel him on a dangerous adventure through time in search of a pirate treasure.
When Jack finds himself aboard the pirate ship Revenge with Captain Jameson’s crew, he enters a life or death world of ship battles, jungle islands, prison escapes, gold, and treachery.
Set during the golden age of Caribbean piracy, Pirate Jack combines rollicking adventure with the moving story of a boy’s love for his father and a courageous effort to save a way of life.
You’ll find regular podcasts of all the chapters over the next couple of months. Subscribe to our feed.
This is the first John Carter of Mars novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the author of the Tarzan books. It was his first novel, published in 1917 and it’s a work of rip-roaring science fiction that has inspired many of the great writers in the genre.
Chapter 6: A fight to the death with two enormous adversaries leads John Carter to understand something about the beast that is his keeper.
You’ll find regular podcasts of all the chapters over the next couple of months. Subscribe to our feed.
This is the first John Carter of Mars novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the author of the Tarzan books. It was his first novel, published in 1917 and it’s a work of rip-roaring science fiction that has inspired many of the great writers in the genre.
Chapter 5: John Carter realizes that he has a watcher. He attempts to test the creature and quickly finds himself in an unexpected struggle for survival.
You’ll find regular podcasts of all the chapters over the next couple of months. Subscribe to our feed.
Ha ha! This is great! Jr. Star Trek is one of the very first fan films ever made for the original Star Trek series. Peter Emshwiller made it in his house at the age of ten. It actually made its way onto PBS television and has been a feature of many Star Trek conventions over the years. Do kids still do this kind of thing? They should. What a fantastic effort and how much it must have taught the kids about making a movie. They somehow capture the atmosphere of the classic television show by taking it very seriously. Kids at that age didn’t see anything funny about Star Trek. Their imaginations and intellects were fired by the show and they revelled in its deeply optimistic vision of the future.
You can read much more about this film and its maker at a great fan film blog from Clive Young called Fan Cinema Today, which chronicles all things related to films made by fans. This kind of filmmaking has an important place in art and entertainment. Unauthorized films are an expression of profound interest and respect by fans who go this far with their endeavors. They extend the life of a fictional world that has been established in a particular medium and provide many people with an excellent outlet for their creative minds.
La Jetée is a French science fiction photo-novel made by Chris Marker in 1962. It is composed almost entirely of still photos that tell the story of a man who is selected as an ideal subject for time travel experiments conducted by survivors of World War III. What I like about this piece is that it is real science fiction. It’s experimental. It deals with some sort of future. It’s about humanity and technology. It’s mysterious. It’s everything that most so-called science fiction today is not. Chris Marker has been a filmmaker, poet, novelist, photographer and digital multimedia artist for many decades. He is considered one of the most influential experimental filmmakers in the world.
This is a 1950 movie trailer for Flight to Mars. It’s a grade B science fiction pulp adventure about an expedition to mars that encounters an underground civilization. I think it actually has a very nice look with lots of color, great sets and fantastic costumes.
By the way, if you like pulpy sci-fi and Mars, head over to our ongoing Princess of Mars podcast.
This is a very comical excerpt from Disney’s Mars and Beyond science show from 1957. It lays out the standard plot line and character types from a typical pulp science fiction story.
Animator Alex Bland made this homage to science fiction movie posters of the 1950s. It’s as if one of those old graphic Hollywood posters came to life with ray guns, flying saucers, robots, police cars and fleeing pedestrians.
