The Outlaws of Mars, Otis Adelbert Kline
The Outlaws of Mars, Otis Adelbert Kline
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The Outlaws of Mars

Author: Otis Adelbert Kline

Narrator: Johnny Heller

Unabridged: 6 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/30/2020


Synopsis

Jerry Morgan, a man with no future on Earth, is offered a new life on Mars. He starts out on the wrong foot, meeting a princess and killing the fearsome-looking Martian beast he takes to be menacing her, which actually turns out to be her pet. From there Morgan becomes entangled in the politics of the Byzantine Martian royal court, spurns the advances of a would-be lover, escapes his hosts and role as an expendable political pawn. Various adventures follow, with dazzling swordplay, feats of strength, and other trials, tribulations and treacheries.
Kline's Mars has multiple parallel canals, surrounded by walls and terraces, and the construction of the canals by Martian machines is described. The story has a race-war element that may jar the modern reader.

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 Sandy

Those readers who had been charmed by Otis Adelbert Kline's swashbuckling sci-fi adventure "The Swordsman of Mars" would not have long to wait before they were treated to that novel's follow-up thrill ride. While that first interplanetary pastiche of author Edgar Rice Burroughs had appeared as a six......more

Goodreads review by Charles

The second in Kline's Martian Sword and Planet series. Not as good as the first. I have a facsimile edition.......more

Goodreads review by Jim

"Interplanetary adventure in the tradition of Edgar Rice Burroughs" That blurb sums it up. A good fast read over a few hours on a Sunday afternoon. Much better than watching the Bears play.........more

Goodreads review by Leila

Solid planetary adventure romance in the vein of Edgar Rice Burroughs - this has all the cliches, Mars setting, Earth hero, princess in distress, political strife, sword fights, villains etc... But somehow it manages to be less than ERB's Barsoom tales. Junia the princess is part of the reason I thin......more