Otis Adelbert Kline's Mars Series

<b> Harry Thorne had lost everything: his business the love of his life even his own self respect.<b> As he's contemplating suicide he's made an incredible offer. He can go back in time and switch places with a look alike who lived on Mars millions of years ago when it was a lush beautiful planet full of promise and adventure. Seizes his last chance at salvaging his life is transported millions of years into the past to a Mars peopled with beautiful women mighty warriors fearsome beasts and awesome magics.<br><b> Jerry Morgan is a man with no future on Earth he is offered a new life on Mars and he takes it.<b> He starts out his new life on Mars on the wrong foot by meeting a princess and killing the fearsome-looking Martian he wrongly believes is menacing her. Which in actuality is the princess's beloved pet. <br>From there Morgan becomes entangled in the politics of the Byzantine Martian royal court spurns the advances of a would-be lover escapes his hosts and role as an expendable political pawn. Various adventures follow with dazzling swordplay feats of strength and other trials tribulations and treacheries.<br>Kline's Mars has multiple parallel canals surrounded by walls and terraces and the construction of the canals by Martian machines is described. The story has a race-war element that may jar the modern reader.