Otis Adelbert Kline
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Otis Adelbert Kline (1891-1946) was an adventure novelist and literary agent during the pulp era, Much of his work first appeared in the magazine Weird Tales.
Kline is best known for his novelistic feud with Edgar Rice Burroughs. In 1929, long before planetary romance became a conventional genre, he wrote Planet of Peril, a novel set on the planet Venus and written in the storytelling form of Burroughs's Martian novels. He followed this with two sequels. In response to Kline's "poaching" on his territory, Burroughs began writing his own Venus series. Kline's rejoinder was an even more direct intrusion, boldly setting two novels on Mars. He also wrote of white jungle adventurerers quite reminiscent of Burroughs's Tarzan.
In the mid-1930s Kline largely abandoned writing to concentrate on his career as a literary agent (most famously for fellow Weird Tales author Robert E. Howard, pioneer sword and sorcery writer and creator of Conan the Barbarian).
Bibliography
Venus series
- Planet of Peril (1930)
- The Prince of Peril (1930)
- The Port of Peril (1932)
Mars series
- The Swordsman of Mars (1933)
- Outlaws of Mars (1933)
Other novels and stories
- Maza of the Moon (1930)
- The Call of the Savage [vt Jan of the Jungle](1931)
- Tam, Son of the Tiger (1931)
- Stolen Centuries (1939)
- Jan in India (1935)
Collections
- The Man Who Limped and Other Stories (1946)
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