| The Planet of Peril | |
| Author: | Otis Adelbert Kline |
| Illustrator: | Robert A. Graef |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Robert Grandon |
| Genre: | Science fiction novel |
| Publisher: | A. C. McClurg |
| Release Date: | 1929 |
| Media Type: | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages: | 358 |
| Oclc: | 1834793 |
| Followed By: | The Prince of Peril |
The Planet of Peril, later republished as Planet of Peril, is a 1929 science fiction novel by Otis Adelbert Kline. Originally serialized in six parts in Argosy All-Story Weekly during the summer of 1929, it was published in hardcover later that year by A. C. McClurg and reissued in a lower-price edition by Grosset & Dunlap. It was revived in 1961 as an Avalon Books hardcover and saw its only mass market paperback edition from Ace Books in 1963.[1] The later editions, well after Kline's death, were revised and shortened.
Planet of Peril is the first volume in Kline's "Grandon" trilogy. It is a planetary romance, telling the story of Robert Grandon, who exchanges his mind with an inhabitant of Venus, finds himself a slave, escapes his captors, and rises to leadership of an army of rebels. He eventually marries the princess of the oppressive regime and becomes a benevolent emperor.[2]
Amazing Stories described Planet of Peril as "an exceedingly well-spun yarn [which] can heartily be recommended to all our readers, and to all lovers of imagination-stirring fiction".[2]
P. Schuyler Miller wrote that Planet was "an open imitation of Burroughs, though on a different planet".[3] E. F. Bleiler found the novel to be "sword-play and fantastic adventure in imitation of Edgar Rice Burroughs, describing it as "competent pulp adventure".[4]