Jason Gulliver-Swordsman of two worlds

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s, as the beautiful yet slothful Hither Folk and the barbaric yet industrious Thither Folk are clearly cut from the same mould as the Eloi and Morlocks from The Time Machine. And the most obvious literary parallel is imbedded in the title itself, as Gullivar Jones embarks on wild adventures in strange and distant lands, much the same as the title character from Swift's Gulliver's Travels.

The epitome of the "ugly American," Gullivar is brimming over with arrogance and a certainty he is right in all courses of action he should choose.

Volume two opens on Mars, where John Carter and Lt. Gullivar Jones (of Edwin Lester Linden Arnold's Gulliver of Mars) have assembled an alliance (including the Green Martians from Barsoom and the Sorns from Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis) to defeat the aliens who have been bedeviling the native Martians. These prove to be the aliens from The War of the Worlds, who learn about Earth from spying on the humans on Mars (using the device from H. G. Wells' The Crystal Egg) and launch themselves there when driven off by the Martian resistance using a huge cannon.