"Crimson universe (Perry Rhodan #67)" by K. H. Scheer, translated by
Wendayne Ackerman
https://www.amazon.com/Crimson-universe-Perry-Rhodan-Scheer/dp/B0006WT6X4/

Book number sixty-seven 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 75 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_rote_Universum

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.

Atlan, Perry Rhodan, Reginald Bell, and a crew take a specially built
100 meter cruiser, the California, into the Druuf space from the
Grautier planet system, Myrtha. They install a teletransmitter on one
of the Druufon planets but are interrupted before the installation was
complete. They finish the installation and try to take teletransmitter
out of the system back to regular space. Instead, they end up in a
Druufon work space inhabited by many Druufon and their robots.

BTW, there was a excellent short story "Out Around Rigel" by Robert H.
Wilson that was first published in Astounding magazine in 1931.

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

Lynn McGuire wrote:
> "Crimson universe (Perry Rhodan #67)" by K. H. Scheer, translated by
> Wendayne Ackerman
>
> https://www.amazon.com/Crimson-universe-Perry-Rhodan-Scheer/dp/B0006WT6X4/

<snip>

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

<snip>

> Atlan, Perry Rhodan, Reginald Bell, and a crew take a specially built
> 100 meter cruiser, the California, into the Druuf space from the
> Grautier planet system, Myrtha. They install a teletransmitter on one
> of the Druufon planets but are interrupted before the installation was
> complete. They finish the installation and try to take teletransmitter
> out of the system back to regular space. Instead, they end up in a
> Druufon work space inhabited by many Druufon and their robots.

My previous perrypedia perusal of planet Grey Beast indicated Mahr wrote
all the novellas set on Grey Beast. But, it turns out some stories, such
as "Crimson," ephemerally use Grey Beast as a setting, mentioned only in
passing.
In retrospect, Grey Beast's more frequent use better fits my
fondness for the place. The excerpt of the story show below initially,
incorrectly, made me mentally picture Horner, the brainy alien shown on
the cover of 37 "A World Gone Mad:"
<https://www.perrypedia.de/mediawiki/images/b/b2/PR0037.jpg>

Suddenly Rhodan shoved against me with an outstretched foot.
His face reflected an unusual excitement.
"Don't you hear anything? Somebody is calling my name!"
"Huh...?"
"I'm telling you, somebody is calling me by my name! It's a
telepathic message!" He laughed uncertainly and turned to the
mutant. "Lloyd, don't you hear it, too?"
"Yes sir, but very weakly," Fellmer moaned. "Somebody is
calling 'Perry Rhodan'. Danger is approaching. The caller
says he's sorry he caught us in the transmitter by mistake.
It may have been fortunate, however, since he can now
overcome his inner resistance. No, sir, he doesn't know who
he is. I just asked him that."

Danke,

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