@Redz
This might sound odd:
IF you can find them, have a look at Edgar Rice Burrough's 'John Carter Of Mars' series,especially where he exposes Martian religion ('The Gods Of Mars').
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gods_of_Mars
As you may gather from the link above,like a lot of early Sci writers, Burroughs wrote fast paced and imaginative thud and blunder bodice rippers aimed at teenage boys.. Probably a bit campy for today's tastes. I discovered him in 1966,the same year I discovered and devoured all of the James Bond novels.
This might sound odd:
IF you can find them, have a look at Edgar Rice Burrough's 'John Carter Of Mars' series,especially where he exposes Martian religion ('The Gods Of Mars').
Quote:After his advent, a boat of Green Martians arrive on the River Iss, and is ambushed by the previously unknown Plant Men. Carter comes to their aid. The lone survivor is his good friend Tars Tarkas, the Jeddak of Thark, who has taken the pilgrimage to the Valley Dor to find Carter.
Carter and Tarkas discover that the Therns, rulers of Valley Dor, a white-skinned race of self-proclaimed gods, have for eons deceived the Barsoomians of the outer world by disseminating the myth that the pilgrimage to the Valley Dor is a journey to paradise. Most, however, are killed by the beasts of Valley, the survivors enslaved by Therns.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gods_of_Mars
As you may gather from the link above,like a lot of early Sci writers, Burroughs wrote fast paced and imaginative thud and blunder bodice rippers aimed at teenage boys.. Probably a bit campy for today's tastes. I discovered him in 1966,the same year I discovered and devoured all of the James Bond novels.
