The Outlaws of Mars

by Otis Adelbert Kline

Overview

Jerry Morgan is a man with no future on Earth he is offered a new life on Mars and he takes it. He starts out his new life on Mars on the wrong foot by meeting a princess and killing the fearsome-looking Martian he wrongly believes is menacing her. Which in actuality is the princess's beloved 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798880918898
Publisher:	Start Classics
Publication date:	03/26/2024
Pages:	124
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.29(d)

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.