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Otis Adelbert Kline

Born

in Chicago, Illinois, The United States

July 01, 1891

Died

October 24, 1946

Genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy

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A popular pulp era writer who served on the original Weird Tales editorial staff & appeared frequently in the magazine's early issues, Kline is perhaps best known for his novelistic feud with Edgar Rice Burroughs. He wrote "Planet of Peril" (1929) and two other novels set on the planet Venus and written in the storytelling form of the John Carter of Mars novels, prompting Burroughs to write his own stories set on Venus. In return, Kline wrote two novels set on Mars, as well as several jungle adventurers 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 cre ...more

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Otis Adelbert Kline’s books

Average rating: 3.62 · 1,298 ratings · 221 reviews · 192 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Swordsman of Mars (Swordsman of Mars, #1) 3.57 avg rating — 146 ratings — published 1933 — 100 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Planet of Peril 3.39 avg rating — 116 ratings — published 1929 — 118 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Outlaws of Mars 3.50 avg rating — 110 ratings — published 1933 — 48 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Prince of Peril (Robert Grandon, #2) by Otis Adelbert Kline, Roy Krenkel Jr. (Illustrator) 3.62 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 1930 — 65 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Maza of the Moon by Otis Adelbert Kline, Frank Frazetta (cover) 3.48 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 1930 — 54 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Port of Peril (Robert Grandon #3) 3.53 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 1932 — 106 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Buccaneers of Venus Collection (Three novels in one volume!) 3.94 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2009 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jan of the Jungle by Otis Adelbert Kline, Stephen Holland (cover) 3.21 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1931 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Thing of a Thousand Shapes 2.95 avg rating — 20 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stolen Centuries 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2011 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Otis Adelbert Kline

Robert Grandon (3 books)
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3.54 avg rating — 288 ratings

Swordsman of Mars (2 books)
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Jan of the Jungle (2 books)
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David Anthony Kraft (Foreword),

Steve Leialoha (Illustrator)

3.31 avg rating — 45 ratings

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