Hey is this a good time to post in here?
Maybe not.
Anyhoo, read all Edgar Rice Burroughs Amtor series. Which is like the Barsoon series, but set on Venus, not Mars.
The series is a bit all over the place. The space communists that have conquered more or less everywhere are quickly forgotten and he moves to somewhere outside everywhere. The hero becomes a pirate, and then stops being a pirate before doing much piracy. I was expecting him to reconcile with the father of the underage princess he's pursuing (she's like 19, but that's underage in her culture), and really it got a bit dodgy when she's making it clear she's not interested, even if he "knows" she really is.
Straw feminists aren't interesting (and the author knows this so dropped them and moved onto something else right away). Havatoo is very Nazi-like, can you please not say you wish that someone had killed the lesser humans to make a perfect race? Even if you run away from them in the end.
OTOH, in the next book he has really obvious Nazi stand ins (the Zani party) who are unambiguously the bad guys, and while it looks like they are just going to be comical, he mentions (though not in great detail) how they are torturing and murdering innocent people. For a book published in 1938 (and translated and published in Italy!) tjhat's not bad.
Though, given that he's a powerful psychic, his not ever ever ever using psychic powers except to tell his story to people back home until the very last story (where it seems Burroughs has stopped caring) is...yeah.
Maybe not.
Anyhoo, read all Edgar Rice Burroughs Amtor series. Which is like the Barsoon series, but set on Venus, not Mars.
The series is a bit all over the place. The space communists that have conquered more or less everywhere are quickly forgotten and he moves to somewhere outside everywhere. The hero becomes a pirate, and then stops being a pirate before doing much piracy. I was expecting him to reconcile with the father of the underage princess he's pursuing (she's like 19, but that's underage in her culture), and really it got a bit dodgy when she's making it clear she's not interested, even if he "knows" she really is.
Straw feminists aren't interesting (and the author knows this so dropped them and moved onto something else right away). Havatoo is very Nazi-like, can you please not say you wish that someone had killed the lesser humans to make a perfect race? Even if you run away from them in the end.
OTOH, in the next book he has really obvious Nazi stand ins (the Zani party) who are unambiguously the bad guys, and while it looks like they are just going to be comical, he mentions (though not in great detail) how they are torturing and murdering innocent people. For a book published in 1938 (and translated and published in Italy!) tjhat's not bad.
Though, given that he's a powerful psychic, his not ever ever ever using psychic powers except to tell his story to people back home until the very last story (where it seems Burroughs has stopped caring) is...yeah.
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