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.
Kaor, Paul!
ReplyDeleteAnd 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