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Many people have asked me how I came to write "The Swordsman of Mars," "The Outlaws of Mars," and "The Planet of Peril," and have wondered why the character of Dr. Morgan appears in all of them. "It was all right for the first story," one reader complained, "but it begins to get a bit thick the third time. I hope you're not going to do it again." Another thought that Dr. Morgan really belonged in the series, but that there wasn't enough of him; I should justify his continuance by having him play a more important role in the plot.
As an author, I agree with both of these critics. Dr. Morgan either should have been dropped, or should have a more active and vital role; and I certainly would have taken one of these alternatives in the second novel, "Outlaws of Mars," were this series really my own to work out as I pleased.