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The Outlaws of Mars
Otis Adelbert Kline's final triumphant sword-and-planet epic soars back into print for the first time in almost 50 years Jerry Morgan accepts his scientist uncle's offer to transport him to Mars for a series of thrilling adventures and exploits featuring terrible monsters, fantastic societies, and gorgeous princesses in the Edgar Rice Burroughs tradition. At last presente...more
Paperback, 252 pages
Published
March 4th 2009
by Paizo Publishing
(first published 1933)
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The second in Kline's Martian Sword and Planet series. Not as good as the first. I have a facsimile edition.
For Kline's sword and sorcery novels, sometimes it feels like you're reading the same book over and over again. Each protagonist is a strikingly similar hero figure eerily good at swordfighting, and the theme of 'impressing the princess despite her initial resistance' runs through all stories, usually with a side dish of political intrigue or pursuit.
Then again, sometimes it feels like they're entirely unrelated and not part of a series at all. Ideas from one book are dropped and n...more
Then again, sometimes it feels like they're entirely unrelated and not part of a series at all. Ideas from one book are dropped and n...more
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A popular pulp era writer who served on the original Weird Tales editorial staff & appeared frequently in the magazine's early issues, Kline is perhaps best known for his novelistic feud with Edgar Rice Burroughs. He wrote "Planet of Peril" (1929) and two other novels set on the planet Venus and written in the storytelling form of the John Carter of Mars novels, prompting Burroughs to wr...more
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