{"first_publish_date": "March 12, 1985", "title": "The Gods of Mars", "covers": [207132, 1993510, 1930735, 6460994, 5184932, 8917538, 10168842, 11964810, 13189104], "first_sentence": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "AS I STOOD upon the bluff before my cottage on that clear cold night in the early part of March, 1886, the noble Hudson flowing like the grey and silent spectre of a dead river below me, I felt again the strange, compelling influence of the mighty god of war, my beloved Mars, which for ten long and lonesome years I had implored with outstretched arms to carry me back to my lost love."}, "key": "/works/OL1417942W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL146605A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Fiction, science fiction, general", "American Science fiction", "Classic Literature", "Fiction", "Historical Fiction", "Science fiction", "Science fiction, American", "John Carter (Fictitious character)", "Life on other planets", "English Science fiction", "Fiction, science fiction, action & adventure", "Fiction, action & adventure", "Fiction, classics", "Fiction, science fiction, space opera"], "description": "After the long exile on Earth, John Carter finally returned to his beloved Mars. But beautiful Dejah Thoris, the woman he loved, had vanished. Now he was trapped in the legendary Eden of Mars--an Eden from which none ever escaped alive.", "subject_places": ["Mars (Planet)"], "series": [{"series": {"key": "/series/OL334573L"}, "position": "2"}], "latest_revision": 5, "revision": 5, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-09T21:24:09.523817"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-04-30T02:32:25.557803"}}