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 by: Lynn McGuire - Wed, 8 Mar 2023 19:37 UTC

"The Horror: Perry Rhodan #66 Paperback" by William Voltz, translated by
Wendayne Ackerman
https://www.amazon.com/Horror-Perry-Rhodan-66/dp/4411660490/

Book number sixty-six 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 74 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/Das_Grauen

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.

A Gazelle spaceship, the Fauna, is tasked to pick up a mutant named
Goldstein from the planet Eppan. Goldstein was to evaluate the populace
of Eppan for negative influence from the Arkonide Robot Regent
pertaining to the Solarian Empire. An Eppan named Mataal was their
contact for Goldstein but he has figured out their mission so they grab
him too. On the way back to Earth, strange things start happening and
then the crew starts going into total paralysis.

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: 5 out of 5 stars (1 reviews)

Lynn

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Lynn McGuire wrote:
> "The Horror: Perry Rhodan #66 Paperback" by William Voltz, translated by
> Wendayne Ackerman
> https://www.amazon.com/Horror-Perry-Rhodan-66/dp/4411660490/

<snip>

https://www.perrypedia.de/wiki/Das_Grauen

<snip>

> A Gazelle spaceship, the Fauna, is tasked to pick up a mutant named
> Goldstein from the planet Eppan. Goldstein was to evaluate the populace
> of Eppan for negative influence from the Arkonide Robot Regent
> pertaining to the Solarian Empire. An Eppan named Mataal was their
> contact for Goldstein but he has figured out their mission so they grab
> him too. On the way back to Earth, strange things start happening and
> then the crew starts going into total paralysis.

A double cross followed by another double cross is one way to describe
this novella.
"The Horror" fits the form of _And Then There Were None_ (Christie).
One crew member at a time succumbs to the Thing, until there are none.
As Hercule Poirot figuratively points out, readers must use "the little
grey cells" to solve the mystery. Hint: the working title of this
particular novella is "Der falsche Mann" or "The Wrong Man."
"The Horror"'s shadowy style shares some similarities with a spooky
short story: "In the Stillness Between the Stars." My review of
"Stillness" is shown near the very bottom of this followup.
It's fun to contrast and compare a couple of "Horror"'s elements
with _The Haunting of Hill House_. It helps to keep Bruck's cover art
[1] in mind to tweak the tone of the juxtaposition:

The agreement to not to wander around alone:

Hill House:

The doctor shook his head. "We probably ought to agree, now,
not to wander around the house alone," he said.

The Horror:

"We suggest that starting right now all hands stay in the Control
Central. There's enough room in that area. Let nobody go anywhere
in the ship alone. If it's necessary to go to other parts of the
ship, at least two men should go together."

The bedroom scene:

Hill House:

We left the light on, she told herself, so why is it dark?
Theodora, she tried to whisper, and her mouth could not move;
Theodora, she tried to ask, why is it dark? and the voice went on,
babbling, low and steady, a little liquid gloating sound. She
thought she might be able to distinguish words if she lay perfectly
still, if she lay perfectly still, and listened, and listened and
heard the voice going on and on, never ceasing, and she hung
desperately to Theodora's hand and felt an answering weight on her
own hand.
Then the little gurgling laugh came again, and the rising mad
sound of it drowned out the voice, and then suddenly absolute
silence. Eleanor took a breath, wondering if she could speak now,
and then she heard a little soft cry which broke her heart, a little
infinitely sad cry, a little sweet moan of wild sadness. It is a
child, she thought with disbelief, a child is crying somewhere, and
then, upon that thought, came the wild shrieking voice she had never
heard before and yet knew she had heard always in her nightmares.
"Go away!" it screamed. "Go away, go away, don't hurt me," and,
after, sobbing, "Please don't hurt me. Please let me go home," and
then the little sad crying again.
I can't stand it, Eleanor thought concretely. This is monstrous,
this is cruel, they have been hurting a child and I won't let anyone
hurt a child, and the babbling went on, low and steady, on and on
and on, the voice rising a little and falling a little, going on and
on.
Now, Eleanor thought, perceiving that she was lying sideways on
the bed in the black darkness, holding with both hands to Theodora's
hand, holding so tight she could feel the fine bones of Theodora's
fingers, now, I will not endure this. They think to scare me. Well,
they have. I am scared, but more than that, I am a person, I am
human, I am a walking reasoning humorous human being and I will take
a lot from this lunatic filthy house but I will not go along with
hurting a child, no, I will not; I will by God get my mouth to open
right now and I will yell I will I will yell "STOP IT," she shouted,
and the lights were on the way they had left them and Theodora was
sitting up in bed, startled and dishevelled.
"What?" Theodora was saying. "What, Nell? What?"
"God God," Eleanor said, flinging herself out of bed and across
the room to stand shuddering in a corner, "God God-whose hand was I
holding?"

The Horror:

It was then that something emerged from the wall near his bed!
Almost any other man would have been gripped with shock and it
was only Dealcour's intellectual sangfroid that rescued him
temporarily from a similar reaction This in spite of the fact that
his heart almost stopped beating. It seemed as if the thin metal
of the wall had become transparent, or non-existant, in the place
where the Thing came through.
Dealcour made a lightning swift move and pressed the call
button of the permanently operating ship's intercom. "Sir!" he cried
out sharply. "This is Dealcour. Something is coming through the wall
here. Hurry!" Fear clutched at his voice and seemed to shut it off.
"Hang on!" came Everson's instant answer.
Transfixed, Dealcour could only stare at the Thing. It had
detached itself completely from the wall now, a scintillating
transparent shadow without apparent substance. What could it be?
Dealcour had never seen anything like it before in his life. Panic
finally gripped him. He wanted to yell, to bellow aloud in his
horror, even to breathe-but his lips remained silent.
The incredible apparition was already on top of him.

Note.

[1] <https://www.perrypedia.de/mediawiki/images/e/ec/PR0074.jpg>

Q. Is "it" wearing a fez hat?

A. Good question. <shrug> Who knows?
The story starts out on the planet Eppan. Its indigenous
humanoids are technologically at the crossbow stage. Gladiators
fight at an arena. But there's no literary evidence to openly
suggest fez hats.
It turns out publishers uses two different tints on Bruck's
cover. The cover art shown at the above link appears in my
_Atlan and Arkon_ ePub. While the one shown at isfdb below
more-or-less matches my Moewig pulp:
<https://isfdb.org/wiki/images/0/03/PRRRHDNDSC1979.jpg>

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Rivera, Mercurio "In the Stillness Between the Stars"
Asimov's Science Fiction Sep 2019.

"When the wolf’s in town, it gobbles you down, down, down. . . ."

As the /Seed/ cityship transitions between Neptune and Pluto, en route
to Proxima b, psychotherapist Dr Emilio Garcia prematurely awakes from
hibernation. The cityship's Artificial Intelligence, LEE3, explains how
it also awakened another passenger, Angie Velasquez, after Angie's
nightmares intensified.
The alien tech REMpods used for hibernation suppress all oneiric
neurological activity. You're not supposed to dream, let alone suffer
nightmares. Angie's in Aft District 7, some distance away from Emilio's
present position. So, Emilio plunges into skyweb catwalk darkness above
a vast cityship in power-save mode.

Characters:

Dr Emilio Garcia-Psychotherapist on the cityship /Seed/.
LEE3-The cityship's Artifical Intelligence.
Angie Velasquez-Library Tech engineer.
Aulani Kahanahuni-Pluto's Head Librarian.

Rivera's story truly grabbed me, and apparently a lot of others, given
how it made the short list of Asimov's Readers' Award Finalists [2]. It
also earned a place of prominence on the cover of /Asimov's/. The
shady specter shown on Dominic Harman's cover [3] bears a striking
resemblance to a plague doctor [4].

Note.

[2] <https://web.archive.org/web/20210920060356/http://www.asimovs.com/assets/1/6/Editorial_34th-Annual-Readers-Award-Results_SeptOct2020.pdf>
[3] <https://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/4/41/SMVSSCNCFG2019.jpg>
[4] <https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-science-behind-todays-plague-doctor-costume-1737404375>

Danke,

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 by: Christian Weisgerber - Wed, 8 Mar 2023 20:39 UTC

On 2023-03-08, Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

> "The Horror: Perry Rhodan #66 Paperback" by William Voltz, translated by
> Wendayne Ackerman
> BTW, this is actually book number 74 of the German pamphlets written in
> 1963.

The first installment written by William Voltz, pen name of Wilhelm
Voltz. An inconspicuous beginning from the author who would
eventually run the series and give it a major new direction. His
literary career was cut short by his untimely death from cancer,
in 1984, at the age of 46.

--
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 by: Lynn McGuire - Wed, 8 Mar 2023 22:11 UTC

On 3/8/2023 2:39 PM, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> On 2023-03-08, Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> "The Horror: Perry Rhodan #66 Paperback" by William Voltz, translated by
>> Wendayne Ackerman
>> BTW, this is actually book number 74 of the German pamphlets written in
>> 1963.
>
> The first installment written by William Voltz, pen name of Wilhelm
> Voltz. An inconspicuous beginning from the author who would
> eventually run the series and give it a major new direction. His
> literary career was cut short by his untimely death from cancer,
> in 1984, at the age of 46.

I thought it was a new author but I did not check.

Thanks,
Lynn

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 by: Don - Wed, 8 Mar 2023 22:53 UTC

Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> Lynn McGuire wrote:
>
>> "The Horror: Perry Rhodan #66 Paperback" by William Voltz, translated by
>> Wendayne Ackerman
>> BTW, this is actually book number 74 of the German pamphlets written in
>> 1963.
>
> The first installment written by William Voltz, pen name of Wilhelm
> Voltz. An inconspicuous beginning from the author who would
> eventually run the series and give it a major new direction. His
> literary career was cut short by his untimely death from cancer,
> in 1984, at the age of 46.

Voltz's directional development doesn't surprise me in the least. "The
Horror" ranks as one of my PR favorites (thus far).
Voltz seems to come into his own in _Die Meister der Insel_ Zyklus,
where the coincidentally named Planeten Horror [1] serves as a seminal
setting. A literary "echo effect" encompassing early novellas of _Insel_
reinforce story elements. Rhodan traverses a setting first - soon
followed by the crews of the ANDROTEST I, ANDROTEST II, and ANDROTEST
III.
The Master's storied snares in six dimensions seem to channel
Ouspensky. The Road to Andromeda reprises Rhodan's quest to prove
himself worthy of Wanderer's eternal life.

Note.

[1] <https://www.perrypedia.de/wiki/Horror>

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 by: Christian Weisgerber - Sat, 11 Mar 2023 22:23 UTC

On 2023-03-08, Don <g@crcomp.net> wrote:

> Voltz's directional development doesn't surprise me in the least. "The
> Horror" ranks as one of my PR favorites (thus far).
> Voltz seems to come into his own in _Die Meister der Insel_ Zyklus,

.... where he wrote most of the installments featuring the character
of Don Redhorse, a Terran of Native American ancestry. I remember
liking those stories a lot, and I think this was indeed the first
time that Voltz registered as a distinct writer for me.

The Masters of the Isle arc was awesome. The Masters were the most
charismatic villains of the series ever, despite--or quite likely
because--they barely appeared on the page. On first contact in
Andromeda, Perry Rhodan and company hear the whispered name, The
Masters of the Isle. We don't know who they are, but we very quickly
learn to dread them, as that whole galaxy does. The structure of
that arc is reminiscent of the Lensman series, with our protagonists
cutting through the enemy layer by layer until they reach the very
top of the pyramid, said Masters. The shadow of the Masters will
continue to loom over Andromeda long after their demise.

Also, the first installment of that arc, #200, introduces Icho
Tolot, the final one of the series' permanent core characters. The
history of his people will be crucial for the next arc, #300..399.

--
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Subject: Re: "The Horror: Perry Rhodan #66 Paperback" by William Voltz, translated by Wendayne Ackerman
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Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> Don wrote:
>
>> Voltz's directional development doesn't surprise me in the least. "The
>> Horror" ranks as one of my PR favorites (thus far).
>> Voltz seems to come into his own in _Die Meister der Insel_ Zyklus,
>
> ... where he wrote most of the installments featuring the character
> of Don Redhorse, a Terran of Native American ancestry. I remember
> liking those stories a lot, and I think this was indeed the first
> time that Voltz registered as a distinct writer for me.
>
> The Masters of the Isle arc was awesome. The Masters were the most
> charismatic villains of the series ever, despite--or quite likely
> because--they barely appeared on the page. On first contact in
> Andromeda, Perry Rhodan and company hear the whispered name, The
> Masters of the Isle. We don't know who they are, but we very quickly
> learn to dread them, as that whole galaxy does. The structure of
> that arc is reminiscent of the Lensman series, with our protagonists
> cutting through the enemy layer by layer until they reach the very
> top of the pyramid, said Masters. The shadow of the Masters will
> continue to loom over Andromeda long after their demise.
>
> Also, the first installment of that arc, #200, introduces Icho
> Tolot, the final one of the series' permanent core characters. The
> history of his people will be crucial for the next arc, #300..399.

Tolot makes me marginally envious of Haluter anatomy and physiology. But
the best thing of all about Haluters is how they intentionally abandoned
all ambitions to rule the Milky Way "island" as their own galactic
empire; in the words of Tolot:

Might I assure you, that fifty thousand years ago my race had
already renounced their, at that time, still expanding galactic
empire? My ancestors then went into seclusion. Now however we
are only quiet observers, who for more than four hundred years
standard time, have followed and enjoyed with great amusement
the daring, cunning and exceedingly shrewd advance of the Terrans.

200 "The Road to Andromeda"

At least in my mind, Planeten Horror's compressor pushes Perry's
predestination closer to literal and further from figurative:

[Rhodan says] "I am interested in the destiny of the
Barkonides. They once told me that I would one day regret
having helped them-yet I helped them at that time because
you asked me to do so. What is it supposed to mean that I
will regret having helped them?"
"They do not refer to actual danger, but only to your
conceit. You will rule the galaxy, but once the Barkonides
enter your life you will see how small you are-and how small
is the galaxy. More I cannot tell you."

145 "The Phantom Horde"

The immortal IT inches nearer to insignificance relative to how The
Masters manipulate matter in six dimensions. And The Masters aren't
the only ones to operate in six dimensions:

When Rhodan recognized the full extent of the danger, it was
already too late to escape. The CREST II was hit by a powerful
light beam and drawn at high acceleration into the center of
the hexagon, which was nothing other than the six-dimensional
focus of a gigantic matter transmitter. ...

The Dull began to be bored. The beings, which it watched, had
too little imagination for his taste. It happened too often.
The Dull could have retreated completely behind his time-shell
again, but he came out so rarely he decided to scare away the
troublemakers, like a human being would scare away an insect.
Only the Dull had no material limbs. It applied a tiny six-
dimensional impulse.
The effect was proportional.
There, where the Haluter Icho Tolot and the mousebeaver
Pucky had just been standing, was - nothing.

205 "The Guardian of Andromeda"

PR is the only fiction known to me to utilize the six dimensions
exposited by Oupensky. _Man and Time_ (Priestley) first introduced me to
Oupensky.
Serendipity plays a role in this followup. PR's Thomas Cardif affair
was treated as an /Oedipus Rex/ adaptation by me in Lynn's recent review
of 67 "Interlude on Siliko 5." And it turns out Priestley mentions
/Oedipus Rex/ in _Man and Time_. And, his words work better than mine
did:

But the reason for writing plays in this form has nothing to do
with the Time element. It is because their action works like a
coiled spring, producing an effect both of increasing tension
and dramatic inevitability. In plays of this kind (of which
perhaps the supreme example is the /Oedipus Rex/ of Sophocles)
we are made to feel that the characters are helpless victims of
fate.

Danke,

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 by: Christian Weisgerber - Sun, 12 Mar 2023 19:29 UTC

On 2023-03-12, Don <g@crcomp.net> wrote:

> Tolot makes me marginally envious of Haluter anatomy and physiology. But
> the best thing of all about Haluters is how they intentionally abandoned
> all ambitions to rule the Milky Way "island" as their own galactic
> empire; in the words of Tolot:

I'm biting my tongue here. Let's just say, there is some further
back story that will eventually be revealed.
(In reality, of course, things were retconned by the writers.)

> PR is the only fiction known to me to utilize the six dimensions
> exposited by Oupensky.

You are overthinking this. It's just an escalation in the best
super-science style of E. E. Smith or John W. Campbell, jr. Once
hyperspace (5D) tech is common, what's the next step? 6D of course!

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 by: Don - Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:49 UTC

Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> Don wrote:
>
>> Tolot makes me marginally envious of Haluter anatomy and physiology. But
>> the best thing of all about Haluters is how they intentionally abandoned
>> all ambitions to rule the Milky Way "island" as their own galactic
>> empire; in the words of Tolot:
>
> I'm biting my tongue here. Let's just say, there is some further
> back story that will eventually be revealed.
> (In reality, of course, things were retconned by the writers.)
>
>> PR is the only fiction known to me to utilize the six dimensions
>> exposited by Oupensky.
>
> You are overthinking this. It's just an escalation in the best
> super-science style of E. E. Smith or John W. Campbell, jr. Once
> hyperspace (5D) tech is common, what's the next step? 6D of course!

Overthinking is always a possibility. The simplified provenance of PR's
sixth-dimension as a hyperspace's hyperspace by induction seemingly
honors Occam's Razor. Yet Mahr did major in physics.
Regardless of the route taken by PR to the sixth-dimension - either
serendipitously or intentionally - it enhances entertainment.

The Six Dimensions in Modern Physics

In modern physics and science in general, the first three
dimensions are the same as those described everywhere. But
then things get a little confused. The fourth dimension,
which is time, is sometimes described as space-time, which
is actually the fifth dimension--as Ouspensky points out,
the fact that space-time is curved requires another dimension.
The sixth dimension, all possibilities, is essentially
the "multiverse" or "many worlds" interpretation of modern
physics. The many worlds explanation is an attempt to explain
observations of quantum phenomena that have no ordinary
explanation but do have a consistent, but extraordinary,
explanation. It basically goes like this: At every moment
when you seem to choose among multiple possibilities, you
actually choose each possibility, and different universes
fork off, the one you are in now is the one in which you made
the choice to read this, for example. There is another universe
where you chose not to read this, another where you read part
way and stopped and so on.

<https://www.rahul.net/raithel/otfw/dimensions.html>

Danke,

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