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> Edgar Rice Burroughs ? better than his Tarzan stories:
> The Martian novels. I've read'em all. Great stuff.
> I'm not much into fantasy stories, but for some reason
> Burroughs's Martian stuff hits the spot.
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true! and if you've read those, there's really no reason to bother with any
other fantasy novels. they've got it all. my favorite is the invisibility paint
invented by a mad scientist in one of those books - the explanation was that
since the martians were so scientifically advanced, they had found a way to
divert natural light so that it traveled around objects painted with this
stuff, so that the onlooker only saw directly to what was behind. i remember
how i read the book when i was like 12, and thought, "yeah, that's right, why
doesn't somebody do this!"
it's also great how in every tarzan/martian novel by burroughs, there has to be
this mad scientist or mad old witch doctor, who's several hundres of years old,
has long curled fingernails, and eats young virgins or something.
jani
