What is your favorite type of sci-fi? For me since Ive always been interested in life in the universe/space exploration, anything regarding that. I love golden age sci-fi and reading what they thought we would do in space back in the 40s and 50s
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The early days, with Borroughs, etc, would have been linked to the early days of planetary study by telescope. The other planets in our own solar system seem to be "single climate/biome" planets, so it was only natural if Barsoom didn't have ecological/temperature regions.
It's also a subtle psychological trick to make Earth still seem "special". Oh, there might be billions of planets, all teeming with life, but Behold! only Earth has multiple biomes, hee-yuk-yuk.
No Man's Sky takes the "single biome planet" to the extreme ....