Tuesday 26 September 2023

Barsoom

The Day Of Their Return, 3

See also:

Ghosts And Aeneas plus combox

Aeneas: Planet And People plus combox

Aeneas And Barsoom

Aeneas And Barsoom II

Diomedean Geography II

Under The Moons Of Vanessa

"...the sun was half again as far way..." (p. 88)

- on Aeneas as on Earth or Ramanujan.

Aeneas, with deserts, and Dido, with jungles, are like old sf versions of Mars and Venus with no Asteroid Belt or Earth between them.

For other references to Barsoom on the current blog, see also here. (Scroll down.)

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

And there's Stirling's novel IN THE COURTS OF THE CRIMSON KINGS, which is also a homage to ERB and Barsoom.

Ad astra! Sean