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Planetary romance (other synonyms are sword and planet,[1][2][3][4] and (inter)planetary adventure[5]) is a subgenre of science fiction in which the bulk of the action consists of adventures on one or more exotic alien planets, characterized by distinctive physical and cultural backgrounds. Some planetary romances take place against the background of a future culture where travel between worlds by spaceship is commonplace; others, particularly the earliest examples of the genre, do not, and invoke flying carpets, astral projection, or other methods of getting between planets. In either case, it is the planetside adventures which are the focus of the story, not the mode of travel.[6]
A significant precursor of the genre is Edwin L. Arnold's Lieut. Gullivar Jones: His Vacation (1905).[7]
In Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels (1985), editor and critic David Pringle named Marion Zimmer Bradley and Anne McCaffrey two "leading practitioners nowadays" for the planetary romance type of science fiction.[8]
the Planetary Romance, also called Sword and Planet stories
Das Subgenre der Sword-and-Planet-Romane (oder Planetary Romance) [The subgenre of Sword-and-Planet-novels (or Planetary Romance)]
The protagonist of "sword and planet", sometimes referred to as "planetary romance," fantasy, is [...]
a genre that some call sword and planet and that others describe as planetary romance
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