Burroughs depicted Mars/Barsoom as a dying planet with a desert environment. He even battles a tribe of Apache warriors before his fateful journey to Barsoom. He's an ex-Confederate soldier who headed west after the Civil War to seek his fortune as a gold prospector. John Carter is a hero who wouldn't be out of place in a Wild West movie. The+Space+WesternEven as Burroughs was doing his part to build the science fiction genre, he was also becoming the first author to merge science fiction and Western elements. Various physical and existential divides threaten to keep the two apart, but in the end, love prevails. As in Avatar, it's a relationship that builds from two strangers (one of them a soldier from another world) attempting to understand one another, and it grows during the looming threat of war. However, the John Carter/Dejah Thoris relationship most reminds us of the romance in James Cameron's Avatar. That's pretty much Captain Kirk's secondary mission in Star Trek. Many sci-fi adventures provide the hero with a woman to fight for, or at least focus plenty of attention on Earthmen wooing pretty ladies with unusual skin tones. A major focus of the first Barsoom novel, A Princess of Mars (and the upcoming movie adaptation), is the growing bond between Earthman John Carter and Martian princess Dejah Thoris. Interstellar+RomanceLove knows no bounds for science fiction heroes, even across the cold depths of space.
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