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series53 books1917

Science fiction and science fantasy, adventurous in tone, set in mars.

“Barsoom is a fictional representation of the planet Mars created by American pulp fiction author Edgar Rice Burroughs.”
from the catalogue

Start with A Princess of Mars →

HeecheeSeries

series19 books1972

completed

About space exploration, set in space and other star systems.

“The Heechee are an advanced alien race that visited the Solar System hundreds of millennia ago and then mysteriously disappeared.”
from the catalogue

Start with Gateway →

Edgar Rice Burroughs's Venus universeSeries

series14 books1933

Set in venus & inner planets.

Start with Pirates of Venus →

Humanx CommonwealthUniverse

universe39 books1972

Set in other star systems and space.

“Two species that ought, by every buried instinct, to recoil from one another instead clasp hand to truhand and build a galaxy together.”
from the catalogue

Start with For Love of Mother-Not →

includes Icerigger Trilogy, Pip & Flinx, The Founding of the Commonwealth

Red PlanetNovel

Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1949

About space colonization and coming of age.

“A boy colonist on Mars takes his bouncing ball Martian pet with him to boarding school, but the new Headmaster is a controlling tyrant.”
from the catalogue

Pax / AstraSeries

series2 books1954

completed

Tense in tone.

“Star Flight appears to be a later omnibus or reissue rather than a third original novel.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Stars Are Ours! →

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