Perry Rhodan?

Rich04 · #1 September 5th, 2001, 01:27 AM

A long time ago (early seventies) they were being reprinted here in the states (I believe PR originated in Germany). Forrest J Akerman coined the phrase Sci-Fi to describe the series.
I read the 1st several (10)books. Very light reading and entertaining. Stopped because I am a stickler for reading things in order and couldn't find the next book.

Galaxy is a bit like those of the EE 'Doc' Smith space operas (as far as ships, tech, space battles go) from the thirties.
I believe there was a pretty horrid movie made from it also.

mac5732 · #2 September 4th, 2001, 02:59 PM

I have close to the whole set of the series, over 200+ books. Series was good as far as ship sets, It has been long time since I read them so I'll have to check on this for you. I have them all boxed and sealed so please give me some time to get back into it. If I remember right, a number of the covers had some good artwork but like I said I'll have to check and see if they are worth your time.

In regards to the series, it was a very popular in its time, Humans found alien space ship in desert along with aliens in deep sleep, took over the ship, then earth then intersteller wars etc. Its been a long time since I read it, I gues I'll have to start re-reading it. The movie was crappy and not at all like the series..

just some ideas mac

DirectorTsaarx · #3 September 4th, 2001, 11:12 PM

Glad other people have heard of it; I guess it's time to do some more serious searching. The main page (www.Perry-Rhodan.com, I think) is in German, so it's a bit difficult for me to navigate (my high-school Latin doesn't help much with reading foreign Languages...). Anyway, the ships I've seen so far look pretty cool, and at least somewhat different from the standard races, not to mention different from the usual sci-fi (Star Trek, Star Wars, Bab5) mods.

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dice_40 · #4 April 1st, 2003, 11:57 PM

hi, i am a noob on playing se4, but it is like drugs in my veins. i am also a big fan of scifi and especially of perry rhodan. when somebody knows where i can get shipsets or a mod about perry rhodan, it would be xmas and birthday at the same day for me.
i think that perry rhodan is one of the best scifi series, i ever see. i have read about 1000 of these booklets (every booklet has about 62 pages)and i am still enthusiastic reading it.
now there are 2171 of these booklets out and every week a new one is publisht. when sombody like to see more information about pr i can give you a short summary, what happens in the first 1000 booklets.

so whish nice gaming and give me a hint when you see something about a pr mod.

p.s. sorry for my bad english, but it is not my native language

Ruatha · #5 April 2nd, 2003, 12:02 AM

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Originally posted by dice_40:
hi, i am a noob on playing se4, but it is like drugs in my veins. i am also a big fan of scifi and especially of perry rhodan. when somebody knows where i can get shipsets or a mod about perry rhodan, it would be xmas and birthday at the same day for me.
i think that perry rhodan is one of the best scifi series, i ever see. i have read about 1000 of these booklets (every booklet has about 62 pages)and i am still enthusiastic reading it.
now there are 2171 of these booklets out and every week a new one is publisht. when sombody like to see more information about pr i can give you a short summary, what happens in the first 1000 booklets. so whish nice gaming and give me a hint when you see something about a pr mod.

p.s. sorry for my bad english, but it is not my native language

2171x62=134602 pages, impressive!

narf poit chez BOOM · #6 April 2nd, 2003, 11:33 AM

indeed, very long, longest i now know about. since i'm also an english only book geek, does anyone know of anything in english?

Power Man · #7 April 2nd, 2003, 05:32 PM

Yes I remember the PR series. The paperback books started out at 50 cents each. Still it was a lot for a young kid in the 70's. I would vist the bookstore and bring back 2 or three new one each visit. I recall coming home once and sitting down on the couch and not looking up till I had read the whole book.
There are LOTS of ships described from small one man scouts to planet size super dreadnoughts. Lots of various beams and missiles too.
I remember massive battles with 1000's of ships on each side.
The story line went from book to book with each one ending in a cliff hanger.
I may even still have some of the books in an old bookcase.