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As the "rim" is actually the south pole, and the "center" the equator, Amtorians have an extraordinarily distorted, backward view of their planet's surface, and their maps are warped accordingly.
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The other impediment to communication, Amtor's quirky cartography, stems from the inhabitants' bizarre cosmology, which at least in the southern hemisphere where Napier lands holds that the world is a flat disc floating on a burning sea of lava, with a rim of ice and a center of fire. Amtorian animals likewise tend to be larger than their Earthly equivalents, and the large species are much more common than they are on Earth, which makes them much more dangerous than Earth fauna and has helped limit exploration of the planet by its natives. Elsewhere, the geography of Amtor is more varied, and he also travels through a dismal pine forest, grassland plains, glacial valleys, and several mountain ranges. Vepaja is notable for the enormous forests Napier first encounters upon his arrival, with trees reaching into the inner cloud envelope. The unnamed second continent is a largely tropical landmass north of Vepaja and west of Thora.Īmtorian vegetation, particularly on Vepaja, tends to be gigantic. Interspersed among these are the great islands of Ganfal, Malpi, Donuk, Movis, Nor, Anlap, Vepaja, Trambol, and Zanbo. Several smaller land masses projecting into Trabol from Karbol appear to be peninsular extensions of Thora these include Bombaj, Ator, Rovlap, Vodaro, and Vaxlap. The Great and Small Circles correspond to the Antarctic Circle and Tropic of Capricorn on Earth (although Burroughs does erroneously state in the second book, Lost on Venus, that the Small Circle is the equator, and Strabol in the Northern Hemisphere, forgetting that the tropics are on both sides of the equator). The main continent is Thora, extending also far into the tropical zone of Strabol and the arctic zone of Karbol -– possibly as far as the south pole. The portion depicted, largely confined to the southern hemisphere's temperate zone (or Trabol, as it is known to its inhabitants), is primarily oceanic, but includes two continents and a number of large islands. Napier also rescues princesses from incomparable dangers innumerable times.ġ934 map of Amtor drawn by Burroughs for the end-papers of his Venus books.Īmtor is a verdant world shielded from the heat of the Sun by a (nearly) perpetual cloud cover. In the course of his adventures within the series, Napier becomes a pirate (twice), escapes from the dread Room of the Seven Doors, and is finally made a prince, or tanjong, of Korva after the overthrow of the Zanis. Napier meets many varied people, including the Vepajans, refugees from an overthrown empire the Thorists, thinly disguised communists who ran the Vepajans out of what is now the Thoran empire pirates the super-scientific eugenicists of Havatoo the zombies of Kormor the fascistic Zanis of Korva and the hideous Cloud People.
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Most of the events of the series take place on the island of Vepaja, the kingdom of Korva on the island of Anlap, and the city-states of Havatoo and Kormor on the tropical continent north of Vepaja.Īs is common in Burroughs' works, the hero is bold and daring, and quickly wins the heart of the Vepajan princess (or janjong) Duare, though class prejudices long inhibit her from expressing her love. Unlike Barsoom, the desert planet of Mars, these stories are set upon a waterworld like Earth.
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The novels, part of the sword and planet subgenre of science fiction, follow earthman Napier's fantastic adventures after he crash-lands on Venus, called Amtor by its human-like inhabitants. Napier attempted a solo voyage to Mars, but, because of mistaken navigational calculations, he finds himself heading toward the planet Venus instead. It is sometimes known as the Carson Napier of Venus series, after its main character, Carson Napier. Most of the stories were first serialized in Argosy, an American pulp magazine. The Amtor or Venus series is a science fantasy series consisting of four novels and one novelette written by American author Edgar Rice Burroughs.