Subject: Re: (Tears) The Gods of Mars (Barsoom, volume 2) by Edgar Rice Burroughs
James Nicoll wrote:
The Gods of Mars (Barsoom, volume 2) by Edgar Rice Burroughs
John Carter of Mars returns... to the valley of no return!
https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/work-and-pray
The first serial publication made ERB $750, almost double his pay for "A Princess of Mars". That was about a cent a word which as late as 1940,
a generation later, was still considered a good word rate for SF or fantasy.
Three years later Argosy was paying him two and a half cents per word -
recall that Analog, F&SF and Galaxy were paying only three cents a word
in the late 1960s. They really wanted his stuff.
The only other author Argosy paid as well was the pre-Wolfe Rex Stout. I should really look for a collection of his early work.
William Hyde
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