"The Silence Of Gom (Perry Rhodan #39)" by Kurt Mahr, translated by
Wendayne Ackerman
https://www.amazon.com/Perry-Rhodan-39-Silence-Gom/dp/0708880290/

Book number thirty-nine 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 1974 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 47 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/Gom_antwortet_nicht

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 Rhodan and his 5,000 foot spherical spaceship with the Ganymede
spaceship are at the Gonom system where the Springers, Mounders, and
Aras are meeting to decide if they want to destroy Terra. Several of
the mutants are at the meeting of the Springers, Mounders, and Aras, to
change the location of Earth in Topthor's spaceship computer and are
caught by the Ara biochemical men. They run off in their spaceship
gazelle but crash on the planet Gom. But they did succeed in changing
the location of Earth from Sol 3 to Betelgeuse 3. They then encounter a
strange flat disklike being on Gom that can become a hive mind and that
the Ara's biomechanical men are made of.

One has to remember that this book was written in German in 1962 and
translated to English in 1974. 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 Rhodan and his 5,000 foot spherical spaceship with the Ganymede
> spaceship are at the Gonom system where the Springers, Mounders, and
> Aras are meeting to decide if they want to destroy Terra. Several of
> the mutants are at the meeting of the Springers, Mounders, and Aras, to
> change the location of Earth in Topthor's spaceship computer and are
> caught by the Ara biochemical men. They run off in their spaceship
> gazelle but crash on the planet Gom. But they did succeed in changing
> the location of Earth from Sol 3 to Betelgeuse 3. They then encounter a
> strange flat disklike being on Gom that can become a hive mind and that
> the Ara's biomechanical men are made of.

The Gom reprise the Mooff (from a couple of installments ago). The more
the scarier. Both Gom and Mooff parapsychism proportionately proliferate
as the local population in touch with each other swells.
Here's Bruck's depiction of doppel-armed (so to speak) Bios:

<https://crcomp.net/arts/pr0047/moewig3.png>

The inaugural Rhodanary (a glossary of words, terms, & names from the
universe of the Peacelord) debuted in the last Ace issue. And the
second-ever Rhodanary appears in this issue.
Bruck's interior art takes a hiatus in both this Ace and the next.
Instead, RhoFemFan line art from Christine Rose takes it place. One
portrait of Thora appears in each installment.

Danke,

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If you're worried that your Gom is too silent, the test is to jab it and see if it responds.

Some, alas, carry this too far, shouting "Gom! Jab 'ar!"

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In article <1d005830-2c12-43c2-aed1-ec2d01d97062n@googlegroups.com>,
Jack Bohn <jack.bohn64@gmail.com> wrote:
>If you're worried that your Gom is too silent, the test is to jab it and
>see if it responds.
>
>Some, alas, carry this too far, shouting "Gom! Jab 'ar!"
>

Stop with all that Gom Jibber Jabber!
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