This addition of Kane of Old Mars is a deliberate "rip off" of John Carter of Mars. Indeed, Moorcock admits that he was asked to write it as a tribute to an author he grew up on. Now Moorcock has authors co-writing Elric stories with him. Moorcock also admits that this addition is the original manuscript, so you will have to deal with some spelling errors here and there.Michael Kane is the principal character, a Vietnam veteran that goes into physics and ends up on Mars during one of his experiments. He tells the author of the book his tales of adventure and the life he made on Mars. Typical of Moorcock's Eternal Champion stories, Moorcock's hero is a philosophical man who hates war (except Elric), but is good at it when he needs to be. Through Kane, Moorcock speaks of how fear affects us and causes us to do the wrong thing (kill, hate, etc.). Kane tries his best to remedy that with logic and compassion.Moorcock seems to have left one loose end: what happened to the crazy chick, is she still in custody? Is she now sane? Will Moorcock, or someone else bring her back for another trilogy on Mars?