Nicol itibaren MOREAU, 海地
When I was in high-school, I used to steal this book from the library every few months and then secretly return it. I was embarassed to check it out, not so much because the protaganist is a sexual messiah, but because it is written in a magical realism style. I was a snob; I knew I should know better, but I still loved this book...so entertaining.
The book is markedly improved by making it a true sequel to Planet of Peril and dispensing with the introduction of one more new Earthling travelling psychically to Venus. This allows the adventure to start almost immediately. Overall it felt more polished, and this time the digressive adventure onto Weird Monster Island was concluded promptly so that we could move to the more interesting Port of Peril of the title. What I'm still mystified about is how the series came together with Kline's parallel Mars series. If I'm reading the Gutenberg Australia versions correctly, he does make reference to Harry Thorne (The Swordsman of Mars as well as this series) in terms of events of the Mars series. So the Mars books were written before but published after, or the overarching elements of both series were in his head while writing. I'm very curious which: the latter would be a serious amount of planning.