Planetary Romance is a form of Science Fiction or Science Fantasy in which adventure takes place on an alien world whose landscapes, peoples, creatures and cultures are central to the story. 

 traditions, it often blurs the line between technology and magic, presenting alien planets as equivalents of fantasy Secondary Worlds. Edgar Rice Burroughs’s 

 (1912), are among its defining examples, while later Planetary Romance elements can be found in works ranging from Jack Vance’s fiction to the desert, forest, swamp and ice worlds of 