# Buzz Lightyear of Barsoom?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 13, 2007, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buzz-lightyear-of-barsoom/422562 "2007-10-13T06:07:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buzz-lightyear-of-barsoom/422562/121 "2007-10-20T03:23:22Z")

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I read some of the Mars novels, and attempted “Carson of Venus.” I am not faint of heart. I finished Rex Stout’s _Under the Andes._ Is there continuity between the Mars and Venus novels? I seem to remember some mention of one within a novel of the other.

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**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buzz-lightyear-of-barsoom/422562/122 "2007-10-20T14:29:46Z")

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The connection between the Mars and Venus novels is slender, at best. I read the both series’ in their entirety and, frankly, the Venus series is a waste of time, IMO. ERB just didn’t seem to be “into it” the way he was when writing about Barsoom or Tarzan.

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**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buzz-lightyear-of-barsoom/422562/123 "2007-10-20T16:35:42Z")

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[QUOTE=Evil Captor]  
I may have phrased this clumsily. When I read Tros of Samothrace, the background of the stories was of a guy knocking around the Mediterraneian and hinterlands like Britain in a world dominated by Rome. When I read Gor novels, I get the same impression, except substitute “Ar” for “Rome” and “Gor” for “the Mediterranean and hinterlands.” When I read about the Barsoom, I do not get this feeling. For better of for worse, the Barsoom is its own planet. It’s much more of an original creation, slapdash though it is in certain respects.  
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Yes, now I get it, as long as the Mediterranean hinterlands include, in no particular order, the steppes of Central Asia, the high seas, Scandinavia, the Sahara, the Arctic, sub-Saharan Africa (especially the upper reaches of the Nile), the Great Plains, and an assortment of Greek city-states. 😛

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