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From: ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)
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Subject: Re: "Thora's Sacrifice (Perry Rhodan #70)" by Kurt Brand
Date: 24 Aug 2024 19:37:20 GMT
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In article <vadc1p$1ggik$3@dont-email.me>,
Lynn McGuire  <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 8/24/2024 2:11 PM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
>> 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.
>
>Do you mean where everything is not a success ?
>
>Yup, there are definitely tragedies in the Perry Rhodan series.
>
>Lynn
>

Yes basically, though more particularly while bad things might happen to
Flash Gordon, it would never be Dale dieing...
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