Comments on: Read Planet: Kline’s The Swordsman of Mars

By: Black Gate » Blog Archive » A Bout of Aboutness: Urban Fantasy and Sword-and-Planet

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 05:37:29 +0000

[...] was reading buckets of sword-and-planet last year (some of which I reviewed in this space) and it constantly occurred to me that the aboutness of these books is concerned with male [...]

By: christopher paul carey

christopher paul carey — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 06:49:51 +0000

IMHO, The Outlaws of Mars is in fact better than Swordsman. The story is tight and it’s a great romp for fans of pulp adventure. Hope you’ll check it out.

By: James Enge

James Enge — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 03:02:09 +0000

Yes, I think OAK definitely gets the benefit of lowered expectations. I wonder if Outlaws of Mars will suffer from expectations that are too high?

By: bluetyson

bluetyson — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 05:55:25 +0000

I was pleasantly surprised by this too, definitely better than I thought it would be.