Similar Games in Other Fiction
Burroughs' Jetan may have inspired authors of later planetary romances to invent similar extraterrestrial versions of chess fought with human beings. Instances of such homage include:
- Lin Carter's Darza, from Renegade of Callisto, eighth volume in his Callisto series
- Kenneth Bulmer's Jikaida, from A Life for Kregen, 19th volume in his Dray Prescot series
- John Norman's Kaissa, mentioned many times in his Gor series, although never fully described
- S. M. Stirling's Atanj, from In the Courts of the Crimson Kings, his own Burroughs-influenced novel of an alternate Mars, also not fully described
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