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The reader is introduced to a man named Harry Thorne. Typical for this book, doles out heavy details in some aspects yet is woefully sketchy in others, we never learn much about Harry’s past life, other than that he had lost both his business and his girl to his own business partner, and had subsequently attempted suicide. Thorne is rescued from this attempt by one Dr. Morgan, who makes the miserable man a remarkable offer. It seems that Morgan had been conducting experiments in the area of tele
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The first in Otis Adelbert Kline's two book Martian series. Sword and Planet like Burroughs, but not as imaginative, I thought. Still, good reading.
I have two versions of this, the old Ace edtion and a facsimile edition from James Van Hise. ...more
I have two versions of this, the old Ace edtion and a facsimile edition from James Van Hise. ...more
A twist of fate put me in a position to compare the 1960 Ace edition ("Complete & Unabridged") and the 2007 Planet Stories edition, which has the original text from its 1933 serial appearance in Argosy Magazine. While I preferred the appearance and vintage charm of the Ace edition, its contents compare unfavorably. The opening had been rewritten to bring it into the later decade, in the forms of a reference to Korea and a lampshade hung on known scientific facts of the day, and the text itself h
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Not a bad story but also not a great one either. It is extremely fast paced so much so that it felt like there was stuff missing. There was a number of errors in the wording that made me actually stop and reread them a number of times, this to me seriously detracts from a story. The world he was creating in the story had a great deal of potential to be built upon though.
Oct 18, 2016
Randy Harmelink
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Not as good as ERB, and I probably should only give it a 3 rating, but I just enjoyed it too much. Call it a guilty pleasure. I liked it in spite of itself. I wish Amazon had a separate category for the genre of "planetary romance" or "sword and planet", as they are my favorite type of story. Even more than zombies. :)
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