“The Planet of Peril” (Argosy All-Story Weekly July 20-August 24, 1929) by Otis Adelbert Kline is the first of a trilogy about the hero Grandon. This time, travel to Venus is done with mind-swapping (as Edmond Hamilton would use in his Kaldor and more famous “Star Kings” series.) Grandon finds himself in the body of a slave, so, of course, Burroughsian tale that this is, he escapes, then leads a rebellion, freeing all slaves. He will eventually get the princess and the empire. Kline would be a little ticked when Edgar Rice Burroughs used Venus for his Carson Napier series, having staked out that planet first. The two men were said to have feuded but there is no evidence of this.
Description “The Planet of Peril” (Argosy All-Story Weekly July 20-August 24, 1929) by Otis Adelbert Kline is the first of a trilogy about the hero Grandon. This time, travel to Venus is done with mind-swapping (as Edmond Hamilton would use in his Kaldor and more famous “Star Kings” series.) Grandon finds himself in the body of a slave, so, of course, Burroughsian tale that this is, he escapes, then leads a rebellion, freeing all slaves. He will eventually get the princess and the empire. Kline would be a little ticked when Edgar Rice Burroughs used Venus for his Carson Napier series, having staked out that planet first. The two men were said to have feuded but there is no evidence of this.
