The recent John Carter film adaptation (starring Taylor “Tim Riggins” Kitsch from my favorite show of all time, Friday Night Lights) may not have broken box office records, but it did ignite renewed interest in Edgar Rice Burroughs’s influential classic SciFi series, John Carter of Mars.
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Today’s Free Fridays selection, Jane Carver of Waar by Nathan Long, is a (tongue-in-cheek) homage to Burroughs’s epic swashbuckling space tales. In this updated extraterrestrial adventure, Long replaces the macho John Carter with an equally fearless heroine, Jane Carver, a hard-ridin', hard-lovin' biker chick and ex-Airborne Ranger. When Jane finds herself alone on a distant planet inhabited by all types of inhospitable aliens, it’s time to put her Ranger training to good use, and find a way home…fast!
If you love an old-fashioned SciFi adventure, with some quirky, 21st century updates, you’ll have a lot of fun following Jane’s high-octane encounters. More action awaits in the series’ next book, Jane Carver Swords of Waar, available now for pre-order.
Free Fridays Recommends
Each week, we ask our featured author to recommend a book or author that you may want to check out. Since authors are such passionate readers themselves, we thought you might like to find out what they love to read, too! Here’s what Nathan recommends:
I know a high-adventure writer like myself should probably recommend a high-adventure book, but a story I just read has taken over my head. Southern Gods by John Hornor Jacobs is a sweaty mythos gothic set in the segregated south of the 1950s. A search for a sinister blues singer becomes a descent into madness and danger, not just for the protagonist, but for the reader. Like the forbidden books featured in the story, John Hornor's prose alters the world around you as you read it, showing you secrets and horrors that were hidden before. There are things you cannot unlearn.NOOK owners: go to shop and search for “Nathan Long” to download his high-flying space adventure today.
