Otis Adelbert Kline (1891-1946) was an adventure novelist and literary agent during the pulp era. Much of his work first appeared in the magazine Weird Tales. Kline was an amateur orientalist and a student of Arabic, like his friend and sometime collaborator, E. Hoffmann Price.

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  • Otis Adelbert Kline (1891-1946) was an adventure novelist and literary agent during the pulp era. Much of his work first appeared in the magazine Weird Tales. Kline was an amateur orientalist and a student of Arabic, like his friend and sometime collaborator, E. Hoffmann Price. Kline is best known for his likely apocryphal novelistic feud with Edgar Rice Burroughs. In 1929, long before planetary romance became a conventional genre, he wrote Planet of Peril, a novel set on the planet Venus and written in the storytelling form of Burroughs's Martian novels. He followed this with two sequels. Burroughs began writing his own Venus series, supposedly in response to Kline's "poaching." Kline's purported rejoinder was an even more direct intrusion, boldly setting two novels on Mars. He also wrote of white jungle adventurerers quite reminiscent of Burroughs's Tarzan.[http://www.erbzine.com/mag0/0036.html] The evidence of the feud itself is circumstantial, and the feud was not proposed to have existed until after both writers were dead. Richard A. Lupoff outlined the case in his book Edgar Rice Burroughs: Master of Adventure. Among the evidence cited by Lupoff discounting the feud: (1) no comment from either writer acknowledging the feud is documented, and (2) family members of the two authors have no recollection of ever hearing them mention it. Lupoff relates that Sam Moskowitz whose book Explorers of the Infinite is the primary proponent of the "feud theory," identifies his original source as a fan press article, "The Kline-Burroughs War," by Donald A. Wollheim (Science Fiction News, November, 1936). Lupoff reports that Wollheim stated, when question about the source of his article: "I made it up!" In the mid-1930s Kline largely abandoned writing to concentrate on his career as a literary agent (most famously for fellow Weird Tales author Robert E. Howard, pioneer sword and sorcery writer and creator of Conan the Barbarian). Kline represented Howard from the Spring of 1933 till Howard's death in June 1936, and continued to act as literary agent for Howard's estate thereafter. It has been suggested that Kline may have completed Howard's "planetary romance" Almuric, which he submitted to Weird Tales for posthumous publication in 1939,[http://www.pulpanddagger.com/conan/almuric.html] although this claim is disputed.[http://www.conan.com/invboard/index.php?s=&showtopic=4353&view=findpost&p=67626] (en)
  • O・A・クライン（Otis Adelbert Kline、1891年 - 1946年）は、パルプ雑誌全盛期に活躍したアメリカ合衆国のSF作家、冒険小説家、著作権代理人(literary agent)。但し2007年5月現在、日本語訳されている作品は『火星の黄金仮面』の一作しかない。 作品の多くは、パルプ雑誌「ウィアード・テールズ(Weird Tales)」に発表された。 (ja)
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  • Otis Adelbert Kline (1891-1946) was an adventure novelist and literary agent during the pulp era. Much of his work first appeared in the magazine Weird Tales. Kline was an amateur orientalist and a student of Arabic, like his friend and sometime collaborator, E. Hoffmann Price. (en)
  • O・A・クライン（Otis Adelbert Kline、1891年 - 1946年）は、パルプ雑誌全盛期に活躍したアメリカ合衆国のSF作家、冒険小説家、著作権代理人(literary agent)。但し2007年5月現在、日本語訳されている作品は『火星の黄金仮面』の一作しかない。 (ja)
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  • Otis Adelbert Kline (en)
  • O・A・クライン (ja)
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