"Invasion From Space (Perry Rhodan #4)" by Walter Ernsting and Kurt
Mahr, translated by Wendayne Ackerman
https://www.amazon.com/Invasion-Space-Perry-Rhodan-4/dp/1441659730/

Book number four of a series of one hundred and twenty-six space opera
books in English. The original German books, actually pamphlets, number
in the thousands. The English books mostly have two translated German
stories per book. The German books were written from 1961 to present
time, having sold two billion copies and even recently been rebooted. I
read the well printed and well bound book published by Ace in 1970 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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Rhodan

In this alternate universe, USSF Major Perry Rhodan and his three fellow
astronauts blasted off in a three stage rocket to the Moon in 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.

The race of the wasp-like Mind Snatchers has heard the destroyed
Arkonide space cruiser distress signal. An extremely paranoid race,
they are trying to destroy the Earth with the humans on it. Part II of
the book is about Perry Rhodan's trip to the Moon to salvage more parts
from the Arkonide cruiser and the trip to Venus to establish a new base
of operations to backup the Earth operations. The book supposes that
the Venus atmosphere will be human breathable and the temperatures
bearable, alas, neither of these were found to be true by our Venus
probes since the book was written.

One has to remember that this book was written in German in 1961 and
translated to English in 1970. Many items that came about in the 1970s
and beyond such as cell phones are not reflected in the book. However,
commercial aircraft commonly traveling at Mach 3 are not available to
the public as talked about in the book. Niels Bohr's saying "Prediction
is very difficult, especially about the future" comes to mind.

My rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars (3 reviews)

Lynn

Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
> "Invasion From Space (Perry Rhodan #4)" by Walter Ernsting and Kurt
> Mahr, translated by Wendayne Ackerman
> https://www.amazon.com/Invasion-Space-Perry-Rhodan-4/dp/1441659730/
>
> Book number four of a series of one hundred and twenty-six space opera
> books in English. The original German books, actually pamphlets, number
> in the thousands. The English books mostly have two translated German
> stories per book. The German books were written from 1961 to present
> time, having sold two billion copies and even recently been rebooted. I
> read the well printed and well bound book published by Ace in 1970 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.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Rhodan

These reviews are great! You inspired me to get to work my PR reviews.
They'll be posted here in rasfw, albeit at a much slower pace.
After awhile Ackerman put an editorial in the front of each Ace. If
you happen to read those editorials along the way and spot some words of
wisdom about choosing the best chocolates in a box, please share it.
Apparently Ackerman got flamed when he skipped over some of the
Moewigs. „Nr. 31 Der Kaiser von New York“ was one such Moewig title
originally skipped. After Ace killed off its profitable PR franchise for
no good reason, Ackerman translated the Moewigs he originally skipped. A
Der Kaiser translation was released as "Robot Threat: New York" in
_Atlan 3_.
The list below dates from 2000 and its author is unknown. It
includes three additional Moewigs translated, for a total of one hundred
twenty-nine.

###

Issue Number Title of Issue/s
(German original Nr.)
1(1/2) Enterprise: Stardust/The Third Power
2(3/4) The Radiant Dome/Twilight of The Gods
3(5/6) Galactic Alarm/The Mutants Corps
4(7/8) Invasion From Space/Base on Venus
5(10/11) Space Battle in The Vega Sector/Mutants in Action
6(12) The Secret of The Time Vault
7(13) Fortress of The Six Moons
8(14) The Galactic Riddle
9(15) The Quest Through Time And Space
10(16) The Ghosts of Gol
11(17) The Planet of The Dying Sun
12(18) The Rebels of Tuglan
13(19) The Immortal Unknown
14(20) Venus in Danger
15(22) Escape to Venus
16(23) Secret Barrier X
17(24) The Venus Trap
18(25) Menace of The Mutant Master
19(26) Mutants Vs. Mutants
20(27) The Thrall of Hypno
21(28) The Cosmic Decoy
22(29) The Fleet of The Springers
23(30) Peril on Ice Planet
24(32) Infinity Flight
25(33) Snowman in Flames
26(34) Cosmic Traitor
27(35) Planet of The Gods
28(36) The Plague of Oblivion
29(37) A World Gone Mad
30(38) To Arkon!
31(39) Realm of The Tri-Planets
32(40) Challenge of The Unknown
33(41) The Giant's Partner
34(42) SOS: Spaceship Titan
35(43) Beware The Microbots
36(44) Man And Monster
37(45) Epidemic Center: Aralon
38(46) Project: Earthsave
39(47) The Silence of Gom
40(48) Red Eye of Betelgeuse
41(49) The Earth Dies
42(50) Time's Lonely One
43(51) Life Hunt
44(52) The Pseudo One
45(53) Unknown Sector: Milky Way
46(54) Again: Atlan!
47(55) Shadow of The Mutant Master
48(56) The Dead Live
49(57) Solar Assassins
50(58) Attack From The Unseen
51(59) Return From The Void
52(60) Fortress Atlantis
53(61) Spybot!
54(62) The Blue Dwarfs
55(63) The Micro-Techs
56(64) Prisoners of Time
57(65) A Touch of Eternity
58(66) The Guardians
59(67) Interlude on Siliko 5
60(68) Dimension Search
61(69) Death Waits in Semispace
62(70) The Last Days of Atlantis
63(71) The Tigris Leaps
64(72) The Ambassadors of Aurigel
65(73) Renegades of The Future
66(74) The Horror
67(75) Crimson Universe
68(76) Under The Stars of Druufon / Testflight to Eden(1)
69(77) The Bonds of Eternity / Testflight to Eden(2)
70(78) Thora's Sacrifice
71(79) The Atom Hell of Grautier
72(80) Caves of The Druufs
73(81) Spaceship of Ancestors
74(82) Checkmate: Universe
75(83) Planet Topide, Please Reply!
76(84) Recruits For Arkon
77(85) Conflict Center: Naator
78(86) Power Key
79(87) The Sleepers
80(88) The Columbus Affair
81(89) Pucky's Greatest Hour
82(90) Atlan in Danger
83(91) Ernst Ellert Returns
84(92) Secret Mission: Moluk
85(93) Enemy in The Dark
86(94) Blazing Sun
87(95) The Starless Realm
88(96) Mystery of The Anti
89(97) Power's Price
90(98) Unleashed Powers
91(99) A Friend to Mankind
92(100) The Target Star
93(101) Vagabond of Space
94(102) Action: Division 3
95(103) The Plasma Monster
96(104) Horn: Green
97(105) Phantom Fleet
98(106) The Idol From Passa
99(107) The Blue System
100(108) Desert of Death's Domain
101(109) Blockade: Lepso
102(110) Spoor of The Antis
103(111) False Front
104(112) The Man With Two Faces
105(113) The Wonderflower of Utik
106(114) Caller From Eternity
107(115) The Emperor And The Monster
108(116) Duel Under The Double Sun
109/110(117/118) The Stolen Fleet/Sgt. Robot
111/112(119/120) Seeds of Ruin/Planet Mechanica
113/114(121/122) Heritage of The Lizard People/Death's Demand
115/116(123/124) Saboteurs in A-1/The Psycho-Duel
117/118(125/126) Savior of The Empire/The Shadows Attack

The Perry/Thora romance story "Testflight to Eden" co-authored by Clark
Darlton and Stuart Byrne published only in the American (Ace Publisher)
edition issues 68 and 69.

CAPTION:

PR/Atlan Special

Issue Number Title of Issue/s
(German original Nr.)
1(9/Atlan 88) The Wasp-Men Attack/Spider Desert
2(21/Atlan 92) Menace of Atomigeddon/Flight From Tarkihl
3(31/Atlan 96) Robot Threat: New York/Pale Country Pursuit
4(Atlan 100/Atlan 104) The Crystal Prince / War of the Ghosts
5(Pocket books 11) In the Center of the Galaxy

Danke,

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On 10/3/2021 8:28 PM, Don wrote:
> Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>> "Invasion From Space (Perry Rhodan #4)" by Walter Ernsting and Kurt
>> Mahr, translated by Wendayne Ackerman
>> https://www.amazon.com/Invasion-Space-Perry-Rhodan-4/dp/1441659730/
>>
>> Book number four of a series of one hundred and twenty-six space opera
>> books in English. The original German books, actually pamphlets, number
>> in the thousands. The English books mostly have two translated German
>> stories per book. The German books were written from 1961 to present
>> time, having sold two billion copies and even recently been rebooted. I
>> read the well printed and well bound book published by Ace in 1970 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.
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Rhodan
>
> These reviews are great! You inspired me to get to work my PR reviews.
> They'll be posted here in rasfw, albeit at a much slower pace.
> After awhile Ackerman put an editorial in the front of each Ace. If
> you happen to read those editorials along the way and spot some words of
> wisdom about choosing the best chocolates in a box, please share it.
> Apparently Ackerman got flamed when he skipped over some of the
> Moewigs. „Nr. 31 Der Kaiser von New York“ was one such Moewig title
> originally skipped. After Ace killed off its profitable PR franchise for
> no good reason, Ackerman translated the Moewigs he originally skipped. A
> Der Kaiser translation was released as "Robot Threat: New York" in
> _Atlan 3_.
> The list below dates from 2000 and its author is unknown. It
> includes three additional Moewigs translated, for a total of one hundred
> twenty-nine.
>
> ###
>
> Issue Number Title of Issue/s
> (German original Nr.)
> 1(1/2) Enterprise: Stardust/The Third Power
> 2(3/4) The Radiant Dome/Twilight of The Gods
> 3(5/6) Galactic Alarm/The Mutants Corps
> 4(7/8) Invasion From Space/Base on Venus
> 5(10/11) Space Battle in The Vega Sector/Mutants in Action
> 6(12) The Secret of The Time Vault
> 7(13) Fortress of The Six Moons
> 8(14) The Galactic Riddle
> 9(15) The Quest Through Time And Space
> 10(16) The Ghosts of Gol
> 11(17) The Planet of The Dying Sun
> 12(18) The Rebels of Tuglan
> 13(19) The Immortal Unknown
> 14(20) Venus in Danger
> 15(22) Escape to Venus
> 16(23) Secret Barrier X
> 17(24) The Venus Trap
> 18(25) Menace of The Mutant Master
> 19(26) Mutants Vs. Mutants
> 20(27) The Thrall of Hypno
> 21(28) The Cosmic Decoy
> 22(29) The Fleet of The Springers
> 23(30) Peril on Ice Planet
> 24(32) Infinity Flight
> 25(33) Snowman in Flames
> 26(34) Cosmic Traitor
> 27(35) Planet of The Gods
> 28(36) The Plague of Oblivion
> 29(37) A World Gone Mad
> 30(38) To Arkon!
> 31(39) Realm of The Tri-Planets
> 32(40) Challenge of The Unknown
> 33(41) The Giant's Partner
> 34(42) SOS: Spaceship Titan
> 35(43) Beware The Microbots
> 36(44) Man And Monster
> 37(45) Epidemic Center: Aralon
> 38(46) Project: Earthsave
> 39(47) The Silence of Gom
> 40(48) Red Eye of Betelgeuse
> 41(49) The Earth Dies
> 42(50) Time's Lonely One
> 43(51) Life Hunt
> 44(52) The Pseudo One
> 45(53) Unknown Sector: Milky Way
> 46(54) Again: Atlan!
> 47(55) Shadow of The Mutant Master
> 48(56) The Dead Live
> 49(57) Solar Assassins
> 50(58) Attack From The Unseen
> 51(59) Return From The Void
> 52(60) Fortress Atlantis
> 53(61) Spybot!
> 54(62) The Blue Dwarfs
> 55(63) The Micro-Techs
> 56(64) Prisoners of Time
> 57(65) A Touch of Eternity
> 58(66) The Guardians
> 59(67) Interlude on Siliko 5
> 60(68) Dimension Search
> 61(69) Death Waits in Semispace
> 62(70) The Last Days of Atlantis
> 63(71) The Tigris Leaps
> 64(72) The Ambassadors of Aurigel
> 65(73) Renegades of The Future
> 66(74) The Horror
> 67(75) Crimson Universe
> 68(76) Under The Stars of Druufon / Testflight to Eden(1)
> 69(77) The Bonds of Eternity / Testflight to Eden(2)
> 70(78) Thora's Sacrifice
> 71(79) The Atom Hell of Grautier
> 72(80) Caves of The Druufs
> 73(81) Spaceship of Ancestors
> 74(82) Checkmate: Universe
> 75(83) Planet Topide, Please Reply!
> 76(84) Recruits For Arkon
> 77(85) Conflict Center: Naator
> 78(86) Power Key
> 79(87) The Sleepers
> 80(88) The Columbus Affair
> 81(89) Pucky's Greatest Hour
> 82(90) Atlan in Danger
> 83(91) Ernst Ellert Returns
> 84(92) Secret Mission: Moluk
> 85(93) Enemy in The Dark
> 86(94) Blazing Sun
> 87(95) The Starless Realm
> 88(96) Mystery of The Anti
> 89(97) Power's Price
> 90(98) Unleashed Powers
> 91(99) A Friend to Mankind
> 92(100) The Target Star
> 93(101) Vagabond of Space
> 94(102) Action: Division 3
> 95(103) The Plasma Monster
> 96(104) Horn: Green
> 97(105) Phantom Fleet
> 98(106) The Idol From Passa
> 99(107) The Blue System
> 100(108) Desert of Death's Domain
> 101(109) Blockade: Lepso
> 102(110) Spoor of The Antis
> 103(111) False Front
> 104(112) The Man With Two Faces
> 105(113) The Wonderflower of Utik
> 106(114) Caller From Eternity
> 107(115) The Emperor And The Monster
> 108(116) Duel Under The Double Sun
> 109/110(117/118) The Stolen Fleet/Sgt. Robot
> 111/112(119/120) Seeds of Ruin/Planet Mechanica
> 113/114(121/122) Heritage of The Lizard People/Death's Demand
> 115/116(123/124) Saboteurs in A-1/The Psycho-Duel
> 117/118(125/126) Savior of The Empire/The Shadows Attack
>
> The Perry/Thora romance story "Testflight to Eden" co-authored by Clark
> Darlton and Stuart Byrne published only in the American (Ace Publisher)
> edition issues 68 and 69.
>
> CAPTION:
>
> PR/Atlan Special
>
> Issue Number Title of Issue/s
> (German original Nr.)
> 1(9/Atlan 88) The Wasp-Men Attack/Spider Desert
> 2(21/Atlan 92) Menace of Atomigeddon/Flight From Tarkihl
> 3(31/Atlan 96) Robot Threat: New York/Pale Country Pursuit
> 4(Atlan 100/Atlan 104) The Crystal Prince / War of the Ghosts
> 5(Pocket books 11) In the Center of the Galaxy
>
> Danke,

Cool. I had no idea that was the actual list. I used to have all of
the PR books, the Atlans, and the pamphlets. Now I just have the PR
books minus a couple. I need to inventory them and procure the books
that I am missing.

I am going to leave PR for a while and go back to some fantasy. I
suspect that it will take me a few years to work through my PR books.

On 2021-10-03, Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

> The race of the wasp-like Mind Snatchers has heard the destroyed

Never to be heard of again, I think.

> Arkonide space cruiser distress signal. An extremely paranoid race,
> they are trying to destroy the Earth with the humans on it. Part II of
> the book is about Perry Rhodan's trip to the Moon to salvage more parts
> from the Arkonide cruiser and the trip to Venus to establish a new base
> of operations to backup the Earth operations. The book supposes that
> the Venus atmosphere will be human breathable and the temperatures
> bearable, alas, neither of these were found to be true by our Venus
> probes since the book was written.

Ah, the infamous Venus adventure. Actually, that is a few installments
later. Venus has been studiously avoided ever since and I think
the re-edited hardcover edition ("Silberbände") dropped those parts.

I doubt that Venus as a jungle planet was still scientifically
defensible by 1961, but in those dark times it took a number of
years for scientific advances to trickle through to popularizations,
which is what SF authors read, if they care at all. In 1954,
Isaac Asimov already portrayed the planet as an ocean world in
_Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus_. Of course that proved equally
mistaken.

> One has to remember that this book was written in German in 1961 and
> translated to English in 1970. Many items that came about in the 1970s
> and beyond such as cell phones are not reflected in the book. However,

For hundreds of volumes, the bridge crew on spaceships will still
read computer results from punched tape, well, "symbols" on tape.

> commercial aircraft commonly traveling at Mach 3 are not available to
> the public as talked about in the book.

As numerous commentators have summarized, people expected the
transportation revolution from the first half of the 20th century
to continue unabated, and completely failed to anticipate the
information revolution.

> Niels Bohr's saying "Prediction is very difficult, especially
> about the future" comes to mind.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/10/20/no-predict/
"In conclusion, current evidence indicates that this comical proverb
was first expressed in Danish, and the author remains unknown. The
first written instance now known was dated 1948."

--
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de

On 10/4/2021 8:26 AM, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> On 2021-10-03, Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The race of the wasp-like Mind Snatchers has heard the destroyed
>
> Never to be heard of again, I think.
>
>> Arkonide space cruiser distress signal. An extremely paranoid race,
>> they are trying to destroy the Earth with the humans on it. Part II of
>> the book is about Perry Rhodan's trip to the Moon to salvage more parts
>> from the Arkonide cruiser and the trip to Venus to establish a new base
>> of operations to backup the Earth operations. The book supposes that
>> the Venus atmosphere will be human breathable and the temperatures
>> bearable, alas, neither of these were found to be true by our Venus
>> probes since the book was written.
>
> Ah, the infamous Venus adventure. Actually, that is a few installments
> later. Venus has been studiously avoided ever since and I think
> the re-edited hardcover edition ("Silberbände") dropped those parts.
>
> I doubt that Venus as a jungle planet was still scientifically
> defensible by 1961, but in those dark times it took a number of
> years for scientific advances to trickle through to popularizations,
> which is what SF authors read, if they care at all. In 1954,
> Isaac Asimov already portrayed the planet as an ocean world in
> _Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus_. Of course that proved equally
> mistaken.
>
>> One has to remember that this book was written in German in 1961 and
>> translated to English in 1970. Many items that came about in the 1970s
>> and beyond such as cell phones are not reflected in the book. However,
>
> For hundreds of volumes, the bridge crew on spaceships will still
> read computer results from punched tape, well, "symbols" on tape.
>
>> commercial aircraft commonly traveling at Mach 3 are not available to
>> the public as talked about in the book.
>
> As numerous commentators have summarized, people expected the
> transportation revolution from the first half of the 20th century
> to continue unabated, and completely failed to anticipate the
> information revolution.
>
>> Niels Bohr's saying "Prediction is very difficult, especially
>> about the future" comes to mind.
>
> https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/10/20/no-predict/
> "In conclusion, current evidence indicates that this comical proverb
> was first expressed in Danish, and the author remains unknown. The
> first written instance now known was dated 1948."

So, did you like the book ?

Lynn

Don <g@crcomp.net> writes:

> Apparently Ackerman got flamed when he skipped over some of the
> Moewigs. „Nr. 31 Der Kaiser von New York“ was one such Moewig title
> originally skipped. After Ace killed off its profitable PR franchise for
> no good reason, Ackerman translated the Moewigs he originally skipped. A
> Der Kaiser translation was released as "Robot Threat: New York" in
> _Atlan 3_.

Not quite correct; the ones he skipped were published just right
*before* Ace shut down publication of the series; the last books
published were combos of the three "missing" PRs with the first three
stories of the "Atlan's youth" ("der Held von Arkon") cycle, followed by
the 4th/5th Atlan story, and then the In The Center of the Galaxy novel.

As usual, Perrypedia has the fairly definitive reference, at
https://www.perrypedia.de/wiki/Perry_Rhodan_englisch_(USA) , listing
all the PRs published, not just by Ace but by the (mostly abortive)
subsequent attempts to restablish publishing of PR in English:

1) Just after the end of the Ace deal, Wendayne Ackerman continued
self-publishing PR for a while as magazines similar in form-factor to
the German Hefte. This attempt covered PR stories from just after the
Ace PRs discontinued with PR #119 "Between the Galaxies" up thru
PR #137 "Phantom Fleet", stopping annoyingly 4 episodes before the end
of the Posbi storyline.

2) In 1997 John Foyt and Vector Enterprises started publishing PR
starting with the beginning of the Thoregon storyline (PR#1800 "Time
Lapse"). Alas, this attempt went under a few issues later.

3) In 2006 FanPro tried again with PR, this time choosing to translate
the Lemuria novels, a six-book auxilary novels set between PR#2199 and
PR#2200. Only one of the novels actually got published by them, but
all six novels were translated by Dwight Deckera and, after FanPro went
under, the rights to the translations reverted to VPM and they offered
them on Amazon as ebooks and they are still available:

Frank Borsch: Perry Rhodan Lemuria 1: Ark of the Stars
Hans Kniefel: Perry Rhodan Lemuria 2: The Sleeper of the Ages
Andreas Brandhorst: Perry Rhodan Lemuria 3: Exodus to the Stars
Leo Lukas: Perry Rhodan Lemuria 4: The First Immortal
Thomas Ziegler: Perry Rhodan Lemuria 5: The Last Day of Lemuria
Hubert Haensel: Perry Rhodan Lemuria 6: The Longest Night

4) Most recently, this year, J-Novel.Club (https://j-novel.club), an
outfit that apparently usually publishes translations of Japanese manga,
is branching out into German fiction series as well with the series
Maddrax, John Sinclair, and ... Perry Rhodan Neo, the "reboot series" of
PR started in 2011. So far 3 volumes are out, each covering 2 books
of the German series, with volume 4 scheduled to come out in November.

On Wednesday, October 6, 2021 at 2:36:52 AM UTC-4, Richard Todd wrote:

[snip]

> .....all six novels were translated by Dwight Deckera ........

Decker.

--
Kevin R

On Wednesday, October 6, 2021 at 2:36:52 AM UTC-4, Richard Todd wrote:
[snip-snip]
> 4) Most recently, this year, J-Novel.Club (https://j-novel.club), an
> outfit that apparently usually publishes translations of Japanese manga

Originally light novels, more recently light novels as well as manga.

On 2021-10-04, Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

> So, did you like the book ?

Hey, it's been some forty years. I was happy that I was finally
allowed to read my dad's PR collection. My mom had previously
vetoed it with "that isn't for kids" based on nothing whatsoever.

Clearly I liked it enough to keep reading... for another 1800
installments or so.

--
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de

On 10/6/2021 12:22 PM, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> On 2021-10-04, Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> So, did you like the book ?
>
> Hey, it's been some forty years. I was happy that I was finally
> allowed to read my dad's PR collection. My mom had previously
> vetoed it with "that isn't for kids" based on nothing whatsoever.
>
> Clearly I liked it enough to keep reading... for another 1800
> installments or so.

Wow !

Yes, this is my second reading of PR. I read most, if not all of them,
back in the 1970s when I found them on the revolving rack of science
fiction books in our grocery store. I bought this set on ebay about a
decade or so ago. It is missing two books, #100 and another one.

Lynn

On 2021-10-05, Richard Todd <rmtodd@servalan.servalan.com> wrote:

> 2) In 1997 John Foyt and Vector Enterprises started publishing PR
> starting with the beginning of the Thoregon storyline (PR#1800 "Time
> Lapse"). Alas, this attempt went under a few issues later.

I remember reading about that. I saw some notes how they were
translating various jargon and was bemused and exasperated that
they turned "Schwarzschild-Generator" into "black sphere generator".
Never heard of Karl Schwarzschild, I guess. The usual perils of
people with a humanities education who had their last science class
in fifth grade then going on to translate science fiction.

> 4) Most recently, this year, J-Novel.Club (https://j-novel.club), an
> outfit that apparently usually publishes translations of Japanese manga,
> is branching out into German fiction series as well with the series
> Maddrax, John Sinclair, and ... Perry Rhodan Neo, the "reboot series" of
> PR started in 2011.

Oooh, _John Sinclair_. Another huge German pulp series, this time
supernatural horror, running since 1973.

--
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de

Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> writes:

> On Wednesday, October 6, 2021 at 2:36:52 AM UTC-4, Richard Todd wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>> .....all six novels were translated by Dwight Deckera ........
>
> Decker.

Bah. Damn typos.