Olaf Stapledon's Last Men future history has Martians invading Earth;
ERB's Moon Maid future history has Martians communicating with Earth and Moon Men invading Earth;
Wells and Anderson each have Martians invading Earth in a separate novel;
Clifford Simak's City future history has a Jovian exploration story comparable to Anderson's "Call Me Joe" and James Blish's "Bridge";
ERB's Jupiter story is "Skeleton Men of Jupiter";
ERB's future history is a small part of his fictional universe that also includes Tarzan, John Carter, Pellucidar, Venus, the Land that Time Forgot and an extra-solar planet.
The main comparative points here are:
interplanetary invasions (Wells, Stapledon, Burroughs and Anderson);
Jovian expeditions (Burroughs, Simak, Blish and Anderson).
2 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
I understand the point of this blog piece of yours, but it doesn't has to be JUST Martians invading Earth. We could be invaded by aliens from other stars, as Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven shows us in FOOTFALL.
Sean
Sean,
Yes. I concluded with "interplanetary invasion" because ERB's invaders are Moon Men.
Paul.
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