"The Giant's Partner (Perry Rhodan #33)" by Clark Darlton, translated by
Wendayne Ackerman
https://www.amazon.com/Giants-Partner-Perry-Rhodan-33/dp/2441660160/

Book number thirty-three 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 started with two translated
German stories per book and transitioned to one story per book with the
sixth book. 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 1973 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 #103, plus the Atlan books.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Rhodan

BTW, this is actually book number 41 of the German Pamphlets. There is
a very good explanation of the plot in German on this 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/Der_Partner_des_Giganten

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. It has been over ten years since then and the New Power has
flourished with millions of people and many spaceships headquartered in
the Gobi desert, the city of Terrania.

Perry, Thora, Krest, and 700 of their crew from the Ganymede are sitting
in their brand new 5,000 foot diameter spherical warship from Arkon that
Rhodan named the "Titan" on the planet Zalite, three light years away
from Arkon. The Ganymede and her crew of 300 are also with them. But
something is wrong with Zalites and there are telepathic / hypnotic
jelly fish called the Moofs all over the planet and in their spaceships.
The Giant Positronic Brain on Arkon partners with Perry Rhodan in
solving this mystery.

One has to remember that this book was written in German in 1962 and
translated to English in 1973. 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.

Two observations:
1. The publisher should have put two to four 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: 4.4 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 5 out of 5 stars (2 reviews)

Lynn

Lynn McGuire wrote:

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> Perry, Thora, Krest, and 700 of their crew from the Ganymede are sitting
> in their brand new 5,000 foot diameter spherical warship from Arkon that
> Rhodan named the "Titan" on the planet Zalite, three light years away
> from Arkon. The Ganymede and her crew of 300 are also with them. But
> something is wrong with Zalites and there are telepathic / hypnotic
> jelly fish called the Moofs all over the planet and in their spaceships.
> The Giant Positronic Brain on Arkon partners with Perry Rhodan in
> solving this mystery.

In regards to Mooffs - the more the scarier. People armed with
foreknowledge find it relatively easy to fend off the telepathic
suggestions of a single Mooff all by itself. But, a dozen Mooffs who act
in concert exert suggestive power equivalent to Asimov's Mule.
The Mooffs want to know the Earth's location. While the Zarlt of
Zalite wishes to appropriate Rhodan's big ballsy SuperBat (Super
Battleship), recently pilfered from right under the robot regent's
olfactive sensor.
Bell needs to keep his wits around attractive dancing girls in the
Zarlt's court, lest they pull the steel-wool over Bell's eyes.

Danke,

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