Stapledon's Martians invade Earth. His Terrestrials invade Venus, then Neptune.
Lewis' Ransom visits Mars and Venus. Other Lewis characters visit a different version of Mars.
ERB wrote about Mars. Otis Adelbert Kline imitated ERB by writing about Mars and Venus, then ERB imitated OAK by writing about Venus. ERB's Moon Men invade Earth and His Jovians plan to invade Mars.
Mars and Venus are colonized in Heinlein's Future History and in Anderson's Time Patrol series. Mars and Venus are terraformed and colonized in Anderson's Psychotechnic History whereas, in his Technic History, Venus is colonized after incomplete terraformation and Mars is settled by extrasolars. Anderson also has Martians who invade Earth.
A dictatorship is overthrown on Venus in Anderson's Psychotechnic History and in Blish's and Lowndes' The Duplicated Man.
Venus and Mars are explored in Niven's Known Space future history.
The already terraformed Venus and Mars are colonized in Stirling's Lords of Creation series.
Earlier blog references to Venus. (I forgot Bradbury who has a Mars, of course, but also a Venus. See here.)
5 comments:
Paul:
L. Sprague de Camp poked gentle fun at Edgar Rice Burroughs and Otis Adelbert Cline in *The Hostage of Zir*, set on the somewhat Burroughsian world Krishna. His main character says at the end he wishes he could "catch that Otis Burroughs or whatever his name was, who wrote those stories about earthmen who go to other planets and marry native princesses." He'd like to give the writer a bit of a talking-to about what such worlds and adventures are REALLY like.
David,
I think you have told us this one before? I repeat myself a lot on the blog. Sometimes I think to check back, then just link to previous posts.
Paul.
Paul:
I'm nearly sure I DID mention "Otis Burroughs" once before. But I haven't been able to figure out a way to search for a term that appears only in the comments. Also, I think I gave a bit more detail this time than in the previous reference, whenever it was.
David,
Maybe you could search the blog for posts referencing Venus or OAK etc and see if they have comments?
Paul.
Kaor, DAVID!
And I too have read with pleasure some of L. Sprague De Camp's works, such as THE HOSTAGE OF ZIR. And his non fictional THE ANCIENT ENGINEERS.
As regards that last, people who claim the ancient Egyptians could not have built such huge structures as the Great Pyramids would do well to read that, which explains how they were built.
Sean
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