The Planet of Peril, later republished as Planet of Peril, is a 1929 science fiction novel by Otis Adelbert Kline. Originally serialized in six parts in Argosy All-Story Weekly during the summer of 1929, it was published in hardcover later that year by A. C. McClurg and reissued in a lower-price edition by Grosset & Dunlap. It was revived in 1961 as an Avalon Books hardcover and saw its only mass market paperback edition from Ace Books in 1963.[1] The later editions, well after Kline's death, were revised and shortened.[2]
 First edition cover | |
| Author | Otis Adelbert Kline |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Robert A. Graef |
| Language | English |
| Series | Robert Grandon |
| Genre | Science fiction novel |
| Publisher | A. C. McClurg |
Publication date | 1929 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 358 |
| OCLC | 1834793 |
| Followed by | The Prince of Peril |
Planet of Peril is the first volume in Kline's "Grandon" trilogy. It is a planetary romance, telling the story of Robert Grandon, who exchanges his mind with an inhabitant of Venus, finds himself a slave, escapes his captors, and rises to leadership of an army of rebels. He eventually marries the princess of the oppressive regime and becomes a benevolent emperor.[3]
Reception
editAmazing Stories described Planet of Peril as "an exceedingly well-spun yarn [which] can heartily be recommended to all our readers, and to all lovers of imagination-stirring fiction".[3]
P. Schuyler Miller wrote that Planet was "an open imitation of Burroughs, though on a different planet".[4] E. F. Bleiler found the novel to be "sword-play and fantastic adventure in imitation of Edgar Rice Burroughs, describing it as "competent pulp adventure".[2]
References
edit- ^ ISFDB publication history
- ^ a b Science-Fiction: The Early Years, Kent State University Press, 1990 (p. 409)
- ^ a b "In the Realm of Books", Amazing Stories, March 1930, p.1188
- ^ "The Reference Library", Analog, November 1963, p. 91