In the Courts of the Crimson Kings In the Courts of the Crimson Kings In the Courts of the Crimson Kings is a 2008 alternate history science fiction novel by American writer S. M. Stirling. The story takes place on the planet Mars in an alternate solar system where probes from the United States of America and the Soviet Union find intelligent life and civilizations on both Venus and Mars. The book is heavily influenced by the works of writers such as Edgar Rice Burroughs, Ray Bradbury, and Leigh Brackett, among others. It is a sequel to "The Sky People", which is set on Venus. Stirling later
Extraterrestrial places in the Cthulhu Mythos the same star cluster as Abbith, Xoth, and Zaoth. In Lin Carter's "The Feaster from the Stars: The History of Yzduggor the Eremite", Ymar is said to orbit the star Algol and to be the homeworld of the Great Old One "Zvilpogghua", an offspring of Tsathoggua (See Algol). Yuggoth (or Iukkoth) is the dwarf planet Pluto. It is home to the Mi-Go, a race of fungi-crustacean of Lovecraft's invention. In Richar A. Lupoff's "Discovery of the Ghooric Zone—March 15, 2337", it alternately appears as an enormous planet that orbits on the rim of the Solar System, coinciding with the hypothetical