Amtor cycle

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The Amtor or Venus cycle by Edgar Rice Burroughs is one of the best-known science fiction novels by the Tarzan author. In the five volumes he tells the story of the American astronaut Carson Napier, who actually wanted to fly to Mars . Due to the previously neglected gravitational pull of the moon, however, his space rocket is thrown off course and crashes some time later on Venus , which is called Amtor by its inhabitants . Carson Napier survives the crash, but finds himself in a dangerous world where life doesn't count and almost all of the inhabitants of Venus fight each other.

The Amtor saga is his latest cycle. The first volume, Pirates of Venus , appeared in Argosy Weekly magazine in 1932 . The book edition followed in 1934. The first story was so successful that the author had the sequel Lost on Venus followed in the same magazine in 1933 . The book edition of the second part followed in 1935. It was not until 1938 that the third episode Carson of Venus (Eng. War on Venus) appeared, also again in Argosy Weekly magazine, which was also published in book form the following year. Three shorter stories followed in 1941, Slaves of the Fish Men , Goddess of Fire , The Living Dead, and in 1942 the story War on Venus (Ger. War on Venus), all of which appeared in Fantastic Adventures magazine. In 1946 the four stories were published in book form under the heading Escape on Venus (Ger. Odyssey on Venus). All of the Venus stories published during the author's lifetime were thus available in book form. In 1964, however, another, previously unpublished story followed, The Wizard of Venus , which today forms the fifth volume of the Amtor saga.

The first four volumes of the Amtor cycle have also been available in German since the early 1970s.

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Novels
  • 1 Pirates of Venus (6 parts in: Argosy, September 17, 1932  ff.)
    • English: Pirates of Venus. Translated by Thomas Schlück . Heyne SF&F # 3188, 1970.
  • 2 Lost on Venus (7 parts in: Argosy, March 4, 1933  ff.)
    • English: Lost on Venus. Translated by Thomas Schlück. Heyne SF&F # 3192, 1970.
  • 3 Carson of Venus (1937)
    • English: War on Venus. Translated by Thomas Schlück. Heyne SF&F # 3222, 1971.
  • 4 Escape on Venus (1946; also: Escape On Venus )
    • English: Odyssey on Venus. Translated by Thomas Schlück. Heyne SF&F # 3241, 1971.
  • 5 The Wizard of Venus (1970; also: The Wizard of Venus and Pirate Blood , 1979)
    • English: The Magician of Venus. Kranichborn Fantasy, 2015.
  • Pirate Blood (1970, in: Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Wizard of Venus )
    • German: Piratenblut. In: Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Wizard of Venus. Kranichborn Fantasy, 2015.
Short stories
  • Goddess of Fire (in: Fantastic Adventures, July 1941 )
  • The Living Dead (in: Fantastic Adventures, November 1941 )
  • Slaves of the Fish Men (in: Fantastic Adventures, March 1941 )
  • War on Venus (in: Fantastic Adventures, March 1942 )
  • The Wizard of Venus (1964, in: Edgar Rice Burroughs: Tales of Three Planets )
    • English: The Magician of Venus. In: Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Wizard of Venus. Kranichborn Fantasy, 2015.