Edgar Rice Burroughs's oratorio or Venus cycle is one of the most famous science fiction novels of the Tarzan author. In the five volumes he tells the story of the American astronaut Carson Napier, who wanted to fly to Mars. Due to the unprecedented attractiveness of the moon, his space rocket is thrown out of the course and crashed some time later on the Venus, which is called by its inhabitants Amtor. Carson Napier survives the crash, but finds himself in a dangerous world where a life does not count very much and almost all Venusbewohner fight each other.
The Amtor saga is his latest cycle. The first volume, Pirates of Venus, appeared in the Argosy Weekly magazine in 1932. In 1934 the book edition followed. The first story was so successful that in 1933, the author followed the sequel Lost on Venus in the same magazine. The book edition of the second part followed in 1935. It was not until 1938, again in the Argosy Weekly magazine, that the third episode, Carson of Venus, appeared, which was also published in book form in the following year. In 1941, three short narrations followed, Slaves of the Fish Men, Goddess of Fire, The Living Dead, and the story of War on Venus in 1942. War on Venus), all of which appeared in the Fantastic Adventures magazine. In 1946 the four stories under the title of Escape on Venus were published in book form. Thus all Venus stories published in the author's lifetime were in book form. In 1964, however, there followed another, until then unpublished story, The Wizard of Venus, which today forms the fifth volume of the Amtor saga.
Since the beginning of the 1970s, the first four volumes of the Amtor cycle are also available in German. Edit the Amtor booksQualtext
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