"Perry Rhodan # 64: The Ambassadors From Aurigel" by Kurt Mahr,
translated by Wendayne Ackerman
https://www.amazon.com/Perry-Rhodan-64-Ambassadors-Aurigel/dp/B002CCIQX2/

Book number sixty-four 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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Rhodan

BTW, this is actually book number 72 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/Die_Gesandten_von_Aurigel

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 sixty-nine 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.

The Earth penal colony on Grautier has been attacked by the Whisperers
from another planet in the Myrtha system. The colonists repel the
Whisperers and repair a Gazelle space ship from the wreck of the colony
ship. They travel to the Whisperers home planet and misrepresent
themselves as the leading edge of a huge empire. They are received as
heroes by the starving planet until the truth comes out.

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: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 0 out of 5 stars (0 reviews)

Lynn

On 3/2/2023 2:53 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> "Perry Rhodan # 64: The Ambassadors From Aurigel" by Kurt Mahr,
> translated by Wendayne Ackerman
>
> https://www.amazon.com/Perry-Rhodan-64-Ambassadors-Aurigel/dp/B002CCIQX2/
>
> Book number sixty-four 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.
>    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Rhodan
>
> BTW, this is actually book number 72 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/Die_Gesandten_von_Aurigel
>
> 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 sixty-nine 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.
>
> The Earth penal colony on Grautier has been attacked by the Whisperers
> from another planet in the Myrtha system.  The colonists repel the
> Whisperers and repair a Gazelle space ship from the wreck of the colony
> ship.  They travel to the Whisperers home planet and misrepresent
> themselves as the leading edge of a huge empire.  They are received as
> heroes by the starving planet until the truth comes out.
>
> 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: 4.0 out of 5 stars
> Amazon rating: 0 out of 5 stars (0 reviews)
>
> Lynn

Sigh. ^Whisperers^Whistlers

I think I was having a flashback to The Walking Dead.

Lynn

Lynn McGuire wrote:

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>    https://www.perrypedia.de/wiki/Die_Gesandten_von_Aurigel

<snip>

> The Earth penal colony on Grautier has been attacked by the Whisperers
> from another planet in the Myrtha system.  The colonists repel the
> Whisperers and repair a Gazelle space ship from the wreck of the colony
> ship.  They travel to the Whistlers home planet and misrepresent
> themselves as the leading edge of a huge empire.  They are received as
> heroes by the starving planet until the truth comes out.

For their cover story the fake ambassadors concoct a fake planet:
Aurigel - supposedly the sole satellite to encircle the nearest
neighboring sun. To better deceive Whistlers, Freddy familiarizes her
fakes with French as a spoken language - because any English usage can
potentially "out" the Terranian origin of the "ambassadors."
This story a reprises a recognizable plot formula: a fight for a
tall structure with Terrania's front line facing upward. Bruck's cover
art always pertains to the PR story within. In the present case
<https://www.perrypedia.de/mediawiki/images/7/7f/PR0072.jpg> the cover
depicts a fake ambassador, probably Chellish, as he fights to the top
floor to take the tyrant Iiy-Juur-Eelie.

Danke,

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On 2023-03-02, Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

> "Perry Rhodan # 64: The Ambassadors From Aurigel" by Kurt Mahr,
> translated by Wendayne Ackerman
>
> The Earth penal colony on Grautier has been attacked by the Whisperers
> from another planet in the Myrtha system. [...]

This plotline about Gray Beast (as the planet is called in the
original) is all by Kurt Mahr, right? I think that is something
you'll find more often that a single author writes a series of
tightly connected installments.

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

Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> Lynn McGuire wrote:
>
>> "Perry Rhodan # 64: The Ambassadors From Aurigel" by Kurt Mahr,
>> translated by Wendayne Ackerman
>>
>> The Earth penal colony on Grautier has been attacked by the Whisperers
>> from another planet in the Myrtha system. [...]
>
> This plotline about Gray Beast (as the planet is called in the
> original) is all by Kurt Mahr, right? I think that is something
> you'll find more often that a single author writes a series of
> tightly connected installments.

Brilliant! Yes, it's all by Mahr. (My mind craves such myriad
associative detail. LOL.)
For my first followup, my intention was to note the reprise of Grey
Beast as a setting. But my intention fell through the cracks.
The planet became quite familiar to me throughout the Atlan and
Arkon Zyklus. Not as familiar as Earth, Venus, Mars, and Arkon's
amalgamated tuple, mind you. But comfortably familiar, none the less.
The diversity of fauna on Grey Beast is also notable. Only the
galactic zoo on Tolimon seems to eclipses it.

Danke,

--
Don.......My cat's )\._.,--....,'``. https://crcomp.net/reviews.php
telltale tall tail /, _.. \ _\ (`._ ,. Walk humbly with thy God.
tells tall tales.. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' Make 1984 fiction again.

On 3/3/2023 8:56 AM, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> On 2023-03-02, Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> "Perry Rhodan # 64: The Ambassadors From Aurigel" by Kurt Mahr,
>> translated by Wendayne Ackerman
>>
>> The Earth penal colony on Grautier has been attacked by the Whisperers
>> from another planet in the Myrtha system. [...]
>
> This plotline about Gray Beast (as the planet is called in the
> original) is all by Kurt Mahr, right? I think that is something
> you'll find more often that a single author writes a series of
> tightly connected installments.

The story line is really about the first interstellar colony of Earth.
Which happens to start as a penal colony on a random planet and is
converted gradually to a regular colony.

Lynn