Yeah, you’re right Chewbaka, I probably should have made anew thread for this.

I already have a copy of the first Dune novel (*technically a tie in to the Lynch film, but that shouldn’t matter) so I’ll probably start there, I own most of the John Carter novels an have already read the first two, and I’m also a big Kurosawa fan already and I have seen pretty much 90% of his films.
I’ll keep VCI in mind when looking for Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers (although I’ll stick to YouTube at the moment), and I’ll do some more research on Lensman and Eric John Stark (both of whom I’d never heard of before).
Thanks for the help.