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Jorden og Venus, ca 1935
Forfatteren bliver ringet op af sin ven Jason Gridley, der lige har modtaget et radiobudskab fra Pellucidar, (Jordens indre verden) om at løjtnant von Horst vistnok er fundet. Jason var med i en ekspedition til Pellucidar sammen med Tarzan, David Innes og kaptajn Zuppner
Senere dukker Carson selv op og fortæller lidt om sig selv. Han er hovedrig og i slutningen af 20'erne. Som barn oplært af en hindulærer, Chand Kabi, og forældreløs i en ret ung alder. Han har besluttet sig for at rejse til Mars med en raket, han selv har financieret. Han regner med at det er en envejstur, men måske kan andre føle sig fristet til at gentage turen, hvis han selv når sikkert frem, og så vil nogen sikkert også finde ud af hvordan man arrangerer returrejser.
Carson holder forfatteren underrettet undervejs, men det er tilsyneladende ren envejs kommunikation, hvilket er lidt pudsigt. Det er også mærkeligt at forfatterens tjener godt kan se den telepatisk fremsendte 3d-projektion, men det glider bogen let hen over.
Carson tager afsted mod Mars og har lavet omhyggelige beregninger og kontrolleret dem med hjælp af en astronom, men de er begge kommet til at glemme Månen, hvilket kommer til at koste Carson en del kvaler. Efter nogle gange rundt om Månen fortsætter han men i den gale retning, så han lander i stedet på Venus (eller Amtor, som de indfødte kalder den). Her bliver han i bedste Gulliver stil indkvarteret hos kongen (kaldet Jong) og med en lærer tilknyttet som hurtigt lærer ham det lokale sprog. De charmerende og smukke og længelevende og kloge og ... Vepajanere er i fare for at blive overmandet af de slette og dumme og onde og grimme og kluntede Thorister. Men Carson får øje på en prinsesse på en balkon og bliver forelsket.
Kongen har holdt Carson som fange af frygt for at han var en thoristisk spion, men læreren siger god for Carson omend de ikke kan tro helt på hans beretning. Men han får sin frihed og kan ernære sig frit på Amtor. Hans ven, Kamlot, tager ham med på jagt efter edderkoppesilke, men Kamlot bliver dræbt af en edderkop undervejs. Han er dog kun skindød og liver op igen efter en tid. Kort efter bliver de taget til fange af Klanganere, der fra nogle store fugle sænker fangløkker ned.
Carson lærer snart at Klanganerne også har taget en pige, Duare, til fange og at deres skibe drives af atomspaltning af element 105, kaldet Yor-san vha element 93, kaldet vik-ro. Carson bliver overført til skibet Sofal og Duare er fanget på Sovong
Carson allierer sig med nogle andre af Klanganernes fanger og laver mytteri. Mytteriet lykkes, Carson bliver anerkendt som leder og overtager kommandoen. De entrer Sovong og befrier Duare, der selvfølgelig er prinsessen fra ærten, nå nej balkonen. De kommer tæt på et andet skib, Yan, og Carson beslutter også at ville erobre det. Det går dog galt, for nok erobrer de Yan, men ombord er en forræder Vilor, og en slags adelsmand, en Ongyan ved navn Moosko. Så om natten flygter Vilor og Moosko og tager Duare med sig.
Oveni rammer en storm skibet og Carson bliver skyllet over bord. Han svømmer i land og går en lang tid, inden han støder på flygtningene og Duare, der nu er ved at blive angrebet af indfødte. Han redder hende og vinder hendes evige og rene kærlighed til tidernes ende, men desværre bliver de igen angrebet.
Han får hende frelst i sikkerhed, men bliver selv taget til fange og ført til landet Noobol. Men han skal nok sejre i næste afsnit af denne serie.
Sikke en gang sludder og vrøvl. Bogen har stort set intet plot og Carson Napier er en ret dum og klumset udgave af Tarzan. Desuden sker der næsten ingenting i den første halvdel af bogen.
Forfatteren bliver ringet op af sin ven Jason Gridley, der lige har modtaget et radiobudskab fra Pellucidar, (Jordens indre verden) om at løjtnant von Horst vistnok er fundet. Jason var med i en ekspedition til Pellucidar sammen med Tarzan, David Innes og kaptajn Zuppner
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med luftskibet O-220. Dette har dog ingenting med denne historie at gøre. Men samtidigt har forfatteren fået et brev fra en Carson Napier, der laver et forsøg med ham. Det viser at de to er i psykologisk harmoni og Carson kan nu sende beskeder til forfatteren ad telepatisk vej.Senere dukker Carson selv op og fortæller lidt om sig selv. Han er hovedrig og i slutningen af 20'erne. Som barn oplært af en hindulærer, Chand Kabi, og forældreløs i en ret ung alder. Han har besluttet sig for at rejse til Mars med en raket, han selv har financieret. Han regner med at det er en envejstur, men måske kan andre føle sig fristet til at gentage turen, hvis han selv når sikkert frem, og så vil nogen sikkert også finde ud af hvordan man arrangerer returrejser.
Carson holder forfatteren underrettet undervejs, men det er tilsyneladende ren envejs kommunikation, hvilket er lidt pudsigt. Det er også mærkeligt at forfatterens tjener godt kan se den telepatisk fremsendte 3d-projektion, men det glider bogen let hen over.
Carson tager afsted mod Mars og har lavet omhyggelige beregninger og kontrolleret dem med hjælp af en astronom, men de er begge kommet til at glemme Månen, hvilket kommer til at koste Carson en del kvaler. Efter nogle gange rundt om Månen fortsætter han men i den gale retning, så han lander i stedet på Venus (eller Amtor, som de indfødte kalder den). Her bliver han i bedste Gulliver stil indkvarteret hos kongen (kaldet Jong) og med en lærer tilknyttet som hurtigt lærer ham det lokale sprog. De charmerende og smukke og længelevende og kloge og ... Vepajanere er i fare for at blive overmandet af de slette og dumme og onde og grimme og kluntede Thorister. Men Carson får øje på en prinsesse på en balkon og bliver forelsket.
Kongen har holdt Carson som fange af frygt for at han var en thoristisk spion, men læreren siger god for Carson omend de ikke kan tro helt på hans beretning. Men han får sin frihed og kan ernære sig frit på Amtor. Hans ven, Kamlot, tager ham med på jagt efter edderkoppesilke, men Kamlot bliver dræbt af en edderkop undervejs. Han er dog kun skindød og liver op igen efter en tid. Kort efter bliver de taget til fange af Klanganere, der fra nogle store fugle sænker fangløkker ned.
Carson lærer snart at Klanganerne også har taget en pige, Duare, til fange og at deres skibe drives af atomspaltning af element 105, kaldet Yor-san vha element 93, kaldet vik-ro. Carson bliver overført til skibet Sofal og Duare er fanget på Sovong
Carson allierer sig med nogle andre af Klanganernes fanger og laver mytteri. Mytteriet lykkes, Carson bliver anerkendt som leder og overtager kommandoen. De entrer Sovong og befrier Duare, der selvfølgelig er prinsessen fra ærten, nå nej balkonen. De kommer tæt på et andet skib, Yan, og Carson beslutter også at ville erobre det. Det går dog galt, for nok erobrer de Yan, men ombord er en forræder Vilor, og en slags adelsmand, en Ongyan ved navn Moosko. Så om natten flygter Vilor og Moosko og tager Duare med sig.
Oveni rammer en storm skibet og Carson bliver skyllet over bord. Han svømmer i land og går en lang tid, inden han støder på flygtningene og Duare, der nu er ved at blive angrebet af indfødte. Han redder hende og vinder hendes evige og rene kærlighed til tidernes ende, men desværre bliver de igen angrebet.
Han får hende frelst i sikkerhed, men bliver selv taget til fange og ført til landet Noobol. Men han skal nok sejre i næste afsnit af denne serie.
Sikke en gang sludder og vrøvl. Bogen har stort set intet plot og Carson Napier er en ret dum og klumset udgave af Tarzan. Desuden sker der næsten ingenting i den første halvdel af bogen.
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Publication
[Kbh.] Frederik E. Pedersens Forlag, 1937 155 s., 1 tvl
Description
Edgar Rice Burroughs was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1875. After serving a short time in the 7th U.S. Cavalry, Burroughs was a shopkeeper, gold miner, cowboy, and policeman before becoming a full-time writer. His first novel, Tarzan of the Apes, was published in 1914, and along with its 22 sequels has sold over 30 million copies in 58 languages. Author of numerous other jungle and science fiction novels and novellas, including The Land That Time Forgot, Burroughs had a writing career that spanned almost 30 years, with his last novel, The Land of Terror, being published in 1941. He died in 1950 at his ranch near Tarzana, the California town named for his legendary hero.
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LibraryThing member uvula_fr_b4
The first of Edgar Rice Burroughs' five-book Carson of Venus series (well, 4⅓ books, given that the last installment, the posthumously-published Wizard of Venus, is only 50 pps. long), Pirates of Venus is a sad come-down from the zest and vigor of the first few books in ERB's John Carter and
Pirates of Venus is essentially a yarn told in a distracted, not fully-present way about a lesser permutation of ERB's supermen -- this one named Carson Napier, and quite the self-satisfied lunkhead is he -- who designs a rocket to take him to Mars (John Carter and his progeny are quite unknown in this continuity, so it's "Mars," and not "Barsoom"; OTOH, specific reference is made to the adventures of Tarzan in Pellucidar, the hollow-earth land where dinosaurs yet dwell, as depicted in the 1929 Tarzan At the Earth's Core, in the first few paragraphs of PoV), forgets to factor Earth's Moon into his calculations, and as a consequence winds up on Venus, or Amtor, as the natives -- who have but a single language throughout the entire planet -- call it. Carson soon falls in with a group of comely, robust and vigorous humans who wear precious little in the way of clothing, fixes upon an inamorata, and fights various fauna who seem more suited to H.G. Wells' The Food of the Gods -- or a Bert I. Gordon low budget SFX'er -- than the type of full-blooded sword & planet adventure that ERB himself helped pioneer. Carson also fights other, less comely -- and, therefore, villainous -- humans of the faction called Thorists. (Despite the fact that the name hearkens to Norse mythology, the Thorists are stand-ins for Earth's Soviets.) Pirates concludes with a cliff-hanger; but A Princess of Mars it ain't.
By the time Pirates of Venus was published -- 1934 -- Burroughs was apparently on auto-pilot: his fortune, largely built on Tarzan, was well and truly made; Tarzana, a district of Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley, had already been named in Lord Greystoke's honor (indeed, ERB has a bit of drollery in the opening chapter, when he has his avatar aver, "I detest business and everything connected with it" [p. 13 of Ace Books ed., F-179]: pretty funny given that he was something of a real estate mogul); and his writing here is undistinguished enough to prompt anyone previously unacquainted with it to wonder just what all the fuss was about. The book is almost halfway over before anything of real interest or consequence occurs; I found myself at times recalling fondly Lin Carter's pastiche of ERB and A. Merritt, the five-book Green Star series.
In short, Pirates of Venus is probably of interest only to ERB fans; it makes a pretty tepid introduction to his work. Honestly, I'd only rate this book two stars, except I gave it a quarter-star because it picked up a bit in the last couple of chapters (although I still wanted to dope-slap Carson for being so utterly clueless), and another quarter-star because of the hints of ERB's politics and philosophy peeking through the flimsy scrim of the adventure. If things don't improve by the second book (Lost on Venus, 1935), I'll probably either re-read the first few John Carter books, pick up where I left off with Tarzan, or move on to one of his other series. Maybe The Mucker....
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Tarzan series. Pirates of Venus is essentially a yarn told in a distracted, not fully-present way about a lesser permutation of ERB's supermen -- this one named Carson Napier, and quite the self-satisfied lunkhead is he -- who designs a rocket to take him to Mars (John Carter and his progeny are quite unknown in this continuity, so it's "Mars," and not "Barsoom"; OTOH, specific reference is made to the adventures of Tarzan in Pellucidar, the hollow-earth land where dinosaurs yet dwell, as depicted in the 1929 Tarzan At the Earth's Core, in the first few paragraphs of PoV), forgets to factor Earth's Moon into his calculations, and as a consequence winds up on Venus, or Amtor, as the natives -- who have but a single language throughout the entire planet -- call it. Carson soon falls in with a group of comely, robust and vigorous humans who wear precious little in the way of clothing, fixes upon an inamorata, and fights various fauna who seem more suited to H.G. Wells' The Food of the Gods -- or a Bert I. Gordon low budget SFX'er -- than the type of full-blooded sword & planet adventure that ERB himself helped pioneer. Carson also fights other, less comely -- and, therefore, villainous -- humans of the faction called Thorists. (Despite the fact that the name hearkens to Norse mythology, the Thorists are stand-ins for Earth's Soviets.) Pirates concludes with a cliff-hanger; but A Princess of Mars it ain't.
By the time Pirates of Venus was published -- 1934 -- Burroughs was apparently on auto-pilot: his fortune, largely built on Tarzan, was well and truly made; Tarzana, a district of Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley, had already been named in Lord Greystoke's honor (indeed, ERB has a bit of drollery in the opening chapter, when he has his avatar aver, "I detest business and everything connected with it" [p. 13 of Ace Books ed., F-179]: pretty funny given that he was something of a real estate mogul); and his writing here is undistinguished enough to prompt anyone previously unacquainted with it to wonder just what all the fuss was about. The book is almost halfway over before anything of real interest or consequence occurs; I found myself at times recalling fondly Lin Carter's pastiche of ERB and A. Merritt, the five-book Green Star series.
In short, Pirates of Venus is probably of interest only to ERB fans; it makes a pretty tepid introduction to his work. Honestly, I'd only rate this book two stars, except I gave it a quarter-star because it picked up a bit in the last couple of chapters (although I still wanted to dope-slap Carson for being so utterly clueless), and another quarter-star because of the hints of ERB's politics and philosophy peeking through the flimsy scrim of the adventure. If things don't improve by the second book (Lost on Venus, 1935), I'll probably either re-read the first few John Carter books, pick up where I left off with Tarzan, or move on to one of his other series. Maybe The Mucker....
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LibraryThing member Rosenectur
I decided to bite the bullet and read through Edgar Rice Burroughs “Venus” series in 2012. Pirate is the first book and recounts how a man named Carson travel from earth to Venus, and gets stranded there. He is able to communicate his adventure back to earth via telephathy. Chief among those
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adventures is, batteling giant spider-like ape creatures, falling in love with Duare the forbidden daughter of the King, being kidnapped and taken as a slave, then finally leading a mutainy and becoming a pirate. Show Less
LibraryThing member DarthDeverell
It is hard not to compare Carson Napier with Edgar Rice Burroughs's other interplanetary adventurer, John Carter of Mars, though the two have very little in common. While Carter and Barsoom represent an American audience looking back on the conquering of the frontier, Napier and Amtor very much
Here again, Burroughs creates a unique world. His Venus is Amtor, not the Cosoom of the John Carter series. The inhabitants are geographically separated with little linking them physically or culturally. And they are completely unaware of their planet's spherical shape! The series requires the same suspension of disbelief as Burroughs earlier John Carter books since the modern reader will know that Venus could never have supported life except possibly very shortly after its formation and that its day, rather than the 26 hours, 56 minutes, and 4 seconds of earth time that Burroughs ascribes to it, is actually 116 days and 18 hours in earth time. The ray-based weaponry and ever-present swords will remind readers of the weapons of Barsoom, though the description of its function uses a more up-to-date understanding of radiation. Finally, Burroughs spends an inordinate amount of time interrupting what plot there is to explain the language of Amtor, whereas in the John Carter books he briefly described any necessary terms so the reader could picture the subject or left it up to context to define the terms.
Carson Napier, rather than a poor knock-off of John Carter, is Burroughs's attempt at an autobiographical character. Readers and Burroughs himself would like to be John Carter or Tarzan, but most are actually more like Napier. For the fan of Burroughs, Pirates of Venus is interesting, but it is unlikely to appeal to the casual reader, especially as it ends like a serial film without a proper resolution.
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represent the social concerns of the 1930s. The John Carter books feature a self-assured hero and a pervading sense of nostalgia for a world near its end. Pirates of Venus lacks a cohesive plot and, though Carson Napier is a more realistic protagonist than John Carter, he feels less interesting and exciting for this. The world of Amtor is jumbled and so is the story of Pirates of Venus.Here again, Burroughs creates a unique world. His Venus is Amtor, not the Cosoom of the John Carter series. The inhabitants are geographically separated with little linking them physically or culturally. And they are completely unaware of their planet's spherical shape! The series requires the same suspension of disbelief as Burroughs earlier John Carter books since the modern reader will know that Venus could never have supported life except possibly very shortly after its formation and that its day, rather than the 26 hours, 56 minutes, and 4 seconds of earth time that Burroughs ascribes to it, is actually 116 days and 18 hours in earth time. The ray-based weaponry and ever-present swords will remind readers of the weapons of Barsoom, though the description of its function uses a more up-to-date understanding of radiation. Finally, Burroughs spends an inordinate amount of time interrupting what plot there is to explain the language of Amtor, whereas in the John Carter books he briefly described any necessary terms so the reader could picture the subject or left it up to context to define the terms.
Carson Napier, rather than a poor knock-off of John Carter, is Burroughs's attempt at an autobiographical character. Readers and Burroughs himself would like to be John Carter or Tarzan, but most are actually more like Napier. For the fan of Burroughs, Pirates of Venus is interesting, but it is unlikely to appeal to the casual reader, especially as it ends like a serial film without a proper resolution.
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LibraryThing member thesmellofbooks
Despite the various trodden and untrue tropes, not so old at time of writing, I was surprised by the level of the prose in this book. The bits of wry humour sparingly sprinkled improve the quality of the read still more. Even the female lead, though familiar to readers of fainting-women-burly-men
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fiction, has more chutzpah (and fighting skill) than you might expect for the 1930s. Show Less
LibraryThing member kslade
OK fantasy, much like his Mars books.
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1934
Physical description
155 p.; 19.9 cm
Local notes
Omslag: Axel Mathiesen
Axel Mathiesens signatur ses på forsiden, men der står ikke noget i bogens kolofon om hvem der har tegnet omslaget
Omslaget viser en mand i lændeklæde der er ved at gøre klar til at slå løs på en stor edderkop, der har overmandet en anden mand
Indskannet omslag - N650U - 150 dpi
Oversat fra engelsk "The Pirates of Venus" af Poul G. Ernst
VenusPiraterne
Gutenberg, bind 70195
I tidsskriftet Kvant, december 2012, 23. årgang, nummer 4, side 4-5 har Mogens Esrom Larsen skrevet lidt om Venus-Piraterne og et par naturvidenskabelige bemærkninger i den om komplekse tal og om hvordan man kan regne ud at man lever på en krum overflade selv om man ikke kan se stjernerne eller solen.
Side 47: "Alle disse tilsyneladende Uoverensstemmelser, "sluttede han en lang Udredning, "forvirrede ogsaa de gamle Videnskabsmænd indtil for ca. 3000 Aar siden, da Klufar, den store Matematiker, fandt Teorien om Afstandenes Relativitet og beviste, at Afstandenes sande Størrelse og deres udmaalte Størrelse kunde bringes i Overensstemmelse ved at multiplicere dem begge med Kvadratroden af -1."
Side 47: Jeg indsaa, at det var haabløst at sige mere. Man kan ikke diskutere med en Mand, der kan multiplicere noget med Kvadratroden af -1!
Axel Mathiesens signatur ses på forsiden, men der står ikke noget i bogens kolofon om hvem der har tegnet omslaget
Omslaget viser en mand i lændeklæde der er ved at gøre klar til at slå løs på en stor edderkop, der har overmandet en anden mand
Indskannet omslag - N650U - 150 dpi
Oversat fra engelsk "The Pirates of Venus" af Poul G. Ernst
VenusPiraterne
Gutenberg, bind 70195
I tidsskriftet Kvant, december 2012, 23. årgang, nummer 4, side 4-5 har Mogens Esrom Larsen skrevet lidt om Venus-Piraterne og et par naturvidenskabelige bemærkninger i den om komplekse tal og om hvordan man kan regne ud at man lever på en krum overflade selv om man ikke kan se stjernerne eller solen.
Side 47: "Alle disse tilsyneladende Uoverensstemmelser, "sluttede han en lang Udredning, "forvirrede ogsaa de gamle Videnskabsmænd indtil for ca. 3000 Aar siden, da Klufar, den store Matematiker, fandt Teorien om Afstandenes Relativitet og beviste, at Afstandenes sande Størrelse og deres udmaalte Størrelse kunde bringes i Overensstemmelse ved at multiplicere dem begge med Kvadratroden af -1."
Side 47: Jeg indsaa, at det var haabløst at sige mere. Man kan ikke diskutere med en Mand, der kan multiplicere noget med Kvadratroden af -1!
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