THE VENUS TRILOGY: The Planet of Peril, The Prince of Peril & The Port of Peril
Planetary Romance, Alien Kingdoms, and Pulp-Era Sword-and-Planet AdventureBy Otis Adelbert Kline
Length19h 25m
About this audiobook
Otis Adelbert Kline's Venus Trilogy—comprising The Planet of Peril, The Prince of Peril, and The Port of Peril—follows Carson Napier after a disastrous space voyage carries him to Amtor, the imagined Venus of lost civilizations, perilous jungles, rival kingdoms, and political intrigue. Combining planetary romance, adventure narrative, speculative geography, and romance, the trilogy moves through episodes of captivity, warfare, exploration, and dynastic conflict. Its vigorous prose, cliff-hanging structure, and richly elaborated alien society place it squarely within the early twentieth-century tradition of pulp science fiction, while its emphasis on swordplay, exotic settings, and heroic self-fashioning recalls the influence of Edgar Rice Burroughs and the broader imperial adventure tale. Kline (1891–1946) was an American novelist, poet, musician, and literary professional whose fiction developed during the formative period of commercial science fiction. He admired Burroughs and corresponded with him, and his own planetary romances can be read both as homage and as independent elaborations of the genre's central possibilities. Written when readers were fascinated by Mars, Venus, aviation, and the expanding boundaries of scientific speculation, the trilogy reflects Kline's talent for converting contemporary technological wonder into mythic adventure. This volume is recommended to readers interested in the origins of science fiction, pulp literature, and planetary romance. It offers not only escapist excitement but also a valuable study in how early genre writers imagined alien worlds through the narrative conventions of colonial adventure, romance, and heroic quest. Admirers of Burroughs, classic space opera, and richly plotted serial fiction will find Amtor both historically revealing and enduringly entertaining.
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GenreScience Fiction
Length19 hrs 25 mins
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Publish dateMar 23, 2017
LanguageEnglish
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