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Michael Moorcock dipped his toe into planetary romance with Michael Kane of Old Mars. You might also wish to check out the works of Lin Carter (Callisto, Green Star, and Mysteries of Mars series). Leigh Brackett's Skaith is a good place to visit, as well as the earlier work by Edward Lester Arnold (Gullivar on Mars series).
Mike Resnick's Ganymede series, Edward Hamilton's Merrick series, and some of Robert Howard's short fiction may be what you are looking for as well.
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What are people's thoughts on Burroughs specifically: favorite series, individual books, etc? I've always been partial to the Barsoomian novels overall, though I like pretty much everything; "Beyond the Farthest Star" is a favorite that few people seem to have read.

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Burroughs? A yeomanlike writer... meaning, he worked in the trenches of pulp fiction, was quite entertaining and imaginative. He was not earthshaking, but he remains on my list of authors I'll read over and over again, and there's danged few of those.

As for Burroughs, although he wasn't a great prose writer per se, he really had a strong narrative drive to his stories, and his themes of adventure are really a favorite of mine. I'm talking particularly about the Mars series. I'm not a huge fan of the Tarzan books.
I was influenced enough by Burroughs to write my own sword and planet series, which is out from Borgo Press as the Taleran cycle. Three books, Swords of Talera, Wings Over Talera, and Witch of Talera.
I like Otis Adelbert Kline pretty well but I didn't think he had the narrative drive of ERB. Another, and to my mind better, sword and planet writer was the late Kenneth Bulmer, who wrote the Dray Prescot series under the pseudonym Alan Burt Akers.




Up next in the pulp line for me will probably be some Merritt, or some of the later Tarzan books that I've never gotten around to.
If you've never read beyond Tarzan # 5 (Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar, if memory serves correctly) then I'd DEFINITELY recommend Tarzan the Untamed and Tarzan the Terrible, #'s 7 and 8. For my money they are the two best Tarzan books, and among the best books ERB wrote.

What have all of you read from this era/genre and what can you recommend me besides those listed?