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Subject: Re: "Thora's Sacrifice (Perry Rhodan #70)" by Kurt Brand
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In article <vadaav$1ggik$1@dont-email.me>,
Lynn McGuire  <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>"Thora's Sacrifice (Perry Rhodan #70)" by Kurt Brand
>    https://www.amazon.com/Thoras-Sacrifice-Perry-Rhodan-70/dp/B000LV97UM/
>
>Book number seventy of a series of one hundred and thirty-six space 
>opera books in English.  The original German books, actually pamphlets, 
>number in the thousands.  The English books started with two translated 
>German stories per book translated by Wendayne Ackerman and transitioned 
>to one story per book with the sixth book.  And then they transition 
>back to two stories in book #109/110.  The Ace publisher dropped out at 
>#118, so Forrest and Wendayne Ackerman published books #119 to #136 in 
>pamphlets before stopping in 1978.  The German books were written from 
>1961 to present time, having sold two billion copies and even recently 
>been rebooted again.  I read the well printed and well bound book 
>published by Ace in 1975 that I had to be very careful with due to age. 
>I bought an almost complete box of Perry Rhodans a decade or two ago on 
>ebay that I am finally getting to since I lost my original Perry Rhodans 
>in The Great Flood of 1989.  In fact, I now own book #1 to book #106, 
>plus the Atlan books, and some of the Lemuria books.
>    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Rhodan
>
>BTW, this is actually book number 78 of the German pamphlets written in 
>1963.  There is a very good explanation of the plot in German on the 
>Perrypedia German website of all of the PR books.  There is automatic 
>Google translation available for English, Spanish, Dutch, Japanese, 
>French, and Portuguese.
>    https://www.perrypedia.de/wiki/Thoras_Opfergang
>
>In this alternate universe, USSF Major Perry Rhodan and his three fellow 
>astronauts blasted off in a three stage rocket to the Moon in their 
>1971.  The first stage of the rocket was chemical, the second and third 
>stages were nuclear.  After crashing on the Moon due to a strange radio 
>interference, they discover a massive crashed alien spaceship with an 
>aged male scientist (Khrest), a female commander (Thora), and a crew of 
>500.  It has been over seventy years since then and the Solar Empire has 
>flourished with tens of millions of people and many spaceships 
>headquartered in the Gobi desert, the city of Terrania.  Perry Rhodan 
>has been elected by the people of Earth to be the World Administrator 
>and keep them from being taken over by the robot administrator of Arkon.
>
>Thora the Arkonide, now Thora Rhodan and mother of their child, is dying 
>of old age.  Perry was given immortality by the Immortal several decades 
>ago but, the Immortal refused to give Arkonides Khrest and Thora 
>immortality since they were a dying race.  Perry Rhodan has General 
>Deringhouse take Thora with him on the Burma, a 100 meter (100 yards) 
>diameter spaceship, to the Arkon star system to negotiate with the Robot 
>Regent of Arkon for more star ships to fight the Druufs with.  But the 
>Robot Regent does not want to negotiate.
>
>Two observations:
>1. Forrest Ackerman should have put two or three of the translated 
>stories in each book.  Having two stories in the first five books worked 
>out well.  Just having one story in the book is too short and would 
>never allow the translated books to catch up to the German originals.
>2. Anyone liking Perry Rhodan and wanting a more up to date story should 
>read the totally awesome "Mutineer's Moon" Dahak series of three books 
>by David Weber.
>    https://www.amazon.com/Mutineers-Moon-Dahak-David-Weber/dp/0671720856/
>
>My rating:  5 out of 5 stars
>Amazon rating:  5 out of 5 stars (1 reviews)
>
>Lynn
>

I think this and the Thomas Cardiff arc are where I really started notcing
that the series wasn't written with American expectations in mind.
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