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John Flint Roy/ジョン・フリント・ロイ編
A Guide to Barsoom/バルスームへの案内書
THE MARS OF EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS
Cover Art by Boris Vallejo
John Flint Roy編/Boris Vallejo,Neal MacDonald画/BALLANTINE BOOKS/ISBN 0-345-24722-1-175/p200/$1.75
story/あらすじ
COME TO BARSOOM...AND ENJOY THE WONDERS OF ERB'S MARS
When Edgar Ricr Burroughs (1875-1950) wrote "Dejah Thoris, A Princess
of Mars", in 1911, he had no idea that he was opening a new era in
the science-fiction field. His account of fifteen-foot green men, eight-legged
beasts, oviparous females, and sword-swinging red men was an immediate
success.
And the public clamored for more.
バルスームの地理、動植物、人種、国家、度量衡、ゲーム、武器など、さまざまの項目ごとに単語をアルファベット順に配列して説明を加えた小辞典。ルポフのいう〈高級な研究〉書。
chapters/もくじ
- A Brief History of Pre-Carter Barsoom
- A Geography of Barsoom, Including a Gazetteer-Index and Hemispheric
and Polar Maps of Its Surface
- A Biography of Barsoom, Including a Dictionary of People, Past abd
Present, Whose Names Appear in the Barsoomian Sagas
- The Flora and Fauna of Barsoom, Including a Dictionary of Barsoomian
Plants and Animals
- Measurements on Barsoom-Linear, Time, Monetary-and a List of Barsoomian
Numbers
- The Language, Religions, and Customs of Barsoom
- A General Barsoomian Glossary: Terms, Titles, Organizations, Games,
Weapons, Buildings, Streets, Etc.
- Quotations, Proverbs, and Expletives-From the Rich Heritage of Barsoom
and the Pen of John Carter
- Barsoomian Science and Invention
- Through Space Barsoom?
- "Edgar Rice Burroughs": A Brief Biographical Sketch
- Ackowledgments and Sources
- From the Author
history/初出
A Guide to Barsoom Oct.1976 Roy, Jon Flint (Compiled by)
comment/コメント
I.T.氏の好意によりいただいた有名な〈火星シリーズ〉研究書。ペーパーバックで刊行されたものなので、古い(そして熱心な)ファンなら持っている、という方も多いかも。さて内容は？ これはもう目次の項を見てもらうだけでわかる充実ぶり。こういった本を見ると自分の行っている作業がむなしく思えてくる。日本語でないのがつらいくらい。少し読み込んだら、紹介も充実させていきます。
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