[Vroomfondel]

Anyone here ever read Edgar Rice Burroughs Martian novels?

[Erebus]

No, but I have read Ray Bradbury's The Silver Locusts, which was later renamed as The Martian Chronicles and eventually turned into a TV series as well!

[Cadfael]

A long long time ago, so long in fact that I remember very little about them, but I do remember I enjoyed them. Strangly enough, I remember more about his Carson of Venus books.

[FitzChivalry]

Bradbury's Martian Chronicles are pretty good, try that book.

About Burroughs... i think Tarzan was his greatest creation and some of the Tarzan books have heavy fantasy themes, so fantasy fans may like it.

[Cadfael]

Arkham... whilst I agree the books are dated now, at the time of original publication this was what fantasy was, there was not much other choice out there. I would class the books as SF, but you are correct... there are element of fantasy there.

When I first began to read SF, Fantasy was just a few odd books... ie. Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia, Conan, Gor, The Worm Oroborus and others.

[Vroomfondel]

Yeah, they're pretty old. I got them off of an Internet site, and I would have to say that they are more fantasy than SF. I've also read Ray Bradbury's martian chronicles, which are excellent reads.

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[texasbarbequeking]

You might try the Phillip Jose Farmer "World of Tiers" Series. Very similiar in its "other worldliness" to Burroughs. A good blend of science and fantasy.

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[FitzChivalry]

The World of Tiers is a good series, Farmer has a lot of interesting ideas of world building, he creates weird worlds but he actually try to give explanations to how they work from scietific point of view.
But the series is really action oriented, the plotline is mostly the heroes running around, dodging creaturs and people who want to kill them and try to kill the bad guys.
The series is worth reading though, if only for the reason that it was the inspiration to Zelazny's Amber.

[Rob B]

Which books about Mars have people read?

I've read Mars by Ben Bova, not bad, but it dragged at times.

I've also attempted the Martian Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson but couldn't get past Red Mars I found it rather boring.

Anybody else?

[lemming]

Sure, Moving Mars by Greg Bear... I didn't find it as good as Red Mars though.