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Originally Posted by seneschal
Don't rule out spaceships entirely. ERB's own Carson of Venus series (Pirates of Venus, 1932) had the hero launching himself heavanward in a bona fide rocketship. In the later John Carter of Mars novels (Skeleton Men of Jupiter), Martian airships became capable of interplanetary travel. And ERB's The Moon Maid features antigravity ships capable of reaching the moon.
And while Burroughs' focus is on nubile alien princesses rather than gee-whiz gadgetry, his series do introduce some nifty hardware: radium guns, antigravity ships, battleship-mounted disintegrator cannon, longevity serums, flying harnesses.
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Read my outline above. Weird tech, space vehicles, and vehicular combat are a part of the sourcebook.
I'm just trying to clarify that the thrust of this book is planetary romance, not space opera. Though there are some areas that both cover,
Interplanetary isn't about a doughty core of lantern-jawed heroes rocketing across the solar system to defend Earth from alien death rays.