The third book of Otis Adelbert Kline’s Venus trilogy is The Port of Peril. For some reason it is the only one of the three that takes the definite article. Robert Grandon once again takes center stage. While I do miss the immediacy of the first-person narration of the second book, Port is a significant… Continue reading The Port of Peril. Moderately Perilous.
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Prince of Peril.
The second volume of Otis Adelbert Kline’s Venusian ERB homage series, Prince of Peril, follows the exploits of Prince Zinlo of Olba, formerly Harry Thorne of Earth. In length, and as an episodic, one-damn-thing-after-another travelogue of Venus, it is similar to the first volume, Planet of Peril. However, while the first outing did not do much… Continue reading Prince of Peril.
Otis Adelbert Kline and Homage
Otis Adelbert Kline’s Planet of Peril bears a copyright notice of 1930. It is the first of a three book Peril series, which, I discovered while reading the first, is connected to his Mars books, The Swordsman of Mars and the Outlaw of Mars. I don’t feel that I missed anything essential by not reading… Continue reading Otis Adelbert Kline and Homage