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Forum Name: Symphony of the Sword/The Order of the Rose
Topic ID: 248
Message ID: 11
#11, RE: A Musical Moment
Posted by Gryphon on Jan-27-09 at 10:12 PM
In response to message #8
>>(One wonders why she didn't simply
>>pretend to be a Red Martian. Nobody's afraid of them. On the
>>other hand, then everyone would've expected her to be a nudist. And
>>there again, maybe there aren't any telepathic Barsoomians.
>>Barsoomites?)
>
>Huh. Did I miss earlier material indicating that the DC and Burroughs
>Martians share Planet Four, or is this new revelation?

It's come up before, but only in by-the-way mentions (like this one, come to that), and what I'm about to say is probably different in some particulars from earlier versions anyway:

There are several distinct sapient Martian species, which came as quite a surprise to the first Earthpeople to arrive there with an eye toward terraforming the place and settling in. They went expecting to have to deal with, if anything, the remnants of the declining civilization behind the unsuccessful invasion of 1904. Instead they found at least four (possibly five) separate sentient races, only one of which looked convincingly human, and one guy from Virginia who claimed that a) he was immortal and b) they were trespassing. Is it any wonder there was a brief and very confusing war?

>Either way it leads me to wonder if the DC Martians occupy the
>requisite "Green Martian" position for the Barsoomians...

The four-armed guys are about, although to avoid confusion with the DC Martians (who are more properly known as Malacandri) they're usually called Tharks.

--G.
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