Talk:A Princess of Mars
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[edit] Fantasy
I removed a sentence from the intro that read "Though considered science fiction at the time of it's publication, A Princess of Mars, due it's innacuracies in atronomical information, is today regarded as pure fantasy".[1] As far as I can tell, this is total nonsense. It is contradictory with the first sentence ("...is a science fiction novel..."; if the genre was not absolutely clear then it would be noted further down and discussed). I do not know of anyone who regards Princess as anything but science fiction, nor could I find any such examples. Certainly, the book is not hard science fiction by any means, and would rate fairly low on the Kheper Realism scale, but that does not mean that it is considered fantasy. Science fantasy, maybe. My point is that I don't believe that this article should make judgements on the book's content. It should summarise the feelings of certain people and/or groups, but doing that requires citations, and not just broad generalisations about what it is "regarded" as.--SB | T 08:54, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Tars Tarkas
It seems like Tars Tarkas is a major character who deserves mention in the summary--particularly since he shows up without explanation as an allusion in a video game. Nareek 00:15, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
