Produktbeschreibung
by Otis Adelbert Kline, with an introduction by Michael Moorcock
Harry Thorne, outcast scion of a wealthy East Coast family, seeks the greatest adventure of his life. He exchanges bodies with his look-alike, Martian Sheb Takkor, and is transported millions of years into the past to a Mars peopled with mighty warriors, beautiful women, and fearsome beasts. Sheb Takkor, a great swordsman in his own right, must fight his way across the deserts and jungles of ancient Mars to save the lovely Princess Thaine and to defeat his arch-enemy Sel Han—or die trying!
This is the first complete edition of The Swordsman of Mars published since the story's original appearance in Argosy Magazine in 1933. Popular editions released in the 1960s featured viciously cut prose in order to fit the story into a standard novel format.
In the planet stories genre, Otis Adelbert Kline was the one true rival and equal of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Kline was on the original editorial staff of Weird Tales, and was literary agent to Robert E. Howard of Conan fame. His Mars and Venus books are considered by many Burroughs fans to be the only other tales worthy of the master.
Recommended Age: Mature Readers (ages 16 and up) |
