The cover of Richard Lupoff's book about Edgar Rice Burroughs and his Mars stories
The name by which Mars is known by its natives in the science fiction novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs. In 1912 Burroughs published a story entitled "Under the Moons of Mars" (printed in book form in 1917 as A Princess of Mars) in which he referred to the "hurtling moons of Barsoom" (i.e. Phobos and Deimos).