Planet of Peril, Otis Adelbert Kline
Planet of Peril, Otis Adelbert Kline
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Planet of Peril

Author: Otis Adelbert Kline

Narrator: John McLain

Unabridged: 10 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/23/2020

Synopsis

When Robert Grandon swapped bodies with a prince of the planet Venus, he was concerned only with the thrill and interest of living on a different world.  But the situation he found himself in was hardly that of a leisurely sightseer.  Instead he found himself smack in the center of a whirlwind of intrigue, danger and desperation.

PLANET OF PERIL is a science-fiction adventure on a world of semi-barbaric nations, ferocious beasts, gigantic reptiles and maidens in distress.

About The Author

Otis Adelbert Kline (July 1, 1891 – October 24, 1946) born in Chicago, Illinois, USA, was a songwriter[1], an adventure novelist and literary agent during the pulp era. Much of his work first appeared in the magazine Weird Tales. Kline was an amateur orientalist and a student of Arabic, like his friend and sometime collaborator, E. Hoffmann Price.  

Reviews

Goodreads review by Warren on February 25, 2022

The ebook version on Kindle is the 2009 edition by Wildside Press. Unfortunately, this also seems to be the heavily revised and redacted Ace edition from 1963. Why do I say unfortunately? Well, I guess it depends on your taste. The original novel was serialized in 1929, and was over 350 pages when i......more

Goodreads review by Dfordoom on May 05, 2012

Otis Adelbert Kline’s 1929 novel Planet of Peril is a sword-and-planet adventure very much in the style of Edgar Rice Burroughs. In fact so much so that the two authors were alleged to have had something of a literary feud going over this issue. The reality seems to be that although Kline’s work was......more

Goodreads review by Charles on August 07, 2008

The first in Kline's three book Venus series. Kline and Edgar Rice Burroughs were contemporaries and often in competition. They each wrote a Mars and a venus series of Sword and Planet novels. Although Burroughs was better, Kline's work holds up pretty well by comparison. I have the much older Ace ed......more

Goodreads review by Leothefox on September 25, 2018

Kline and his hero Robert Grandon swing swords on Venus a full 2 years before Burroughs! I read this after having read Kline's later “The Swordsman of Mars”, and I guess that's also the order that Ace reprinted them in the 60s. Although “Planet of Peril” was written in 1930 and “The Swordsman of Ma......more

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