In earlier sf, solar planets, both known and also even unknown, were inhabited. There were:
Wellsian Selenites, ERBian Moon Men and Lewisian moon dwellers;
five extraterrestrial solar races in Heinlein's Future History;
the eccentrically orbiting planets, Mongo and Hesikos;
Vulcanids on an asteroidal Vulcan and beast-men on the invisible Varang-Varang in William Dexter's two Denis Grafton novels.
In more recent sf, Terrestrials are the only solars.
Poul Anderson, transitionally, has:
no native moon-dwellers or unknown planets;
Venerians in one earlier short story;
several Martian races.
The Martians in "Margin of Profit" were edited into extra-solar colonials when that story was rewritten to fit into the Technic History.
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Kaor, Paul!
And the Martians of Stirling's IN THE COURTS OF THE CRIMSON KINGS descended from hominins from Earth settled on a terraformed Mars long, long, ago by the mysterious Lords of Creation.
Sean
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