By Philip E. High
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Perry Rhodan is the identify of a technology fiction sequence released given that 1961 in Germany, in addition to the identify of its major personality. it's a house opera, facing all significant subject matters of technological know-how fiction. Having offered over billion copies in pulp book structure around the world, it's the so much winning technology fiction e-book sequence ever written.
Perry Rhodan Neo is a reboot of the storyline beginning within the 12 months 2036 rather than 1971.
For additional info at the subject material, see the English Wikipedia article on Perry Rhodan and/or the corresponding German Wikipedia article.
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Perry Rhodan ist der Titelheld der gleichnamigen deutschen Science-Fiction-Serie, die seit dem eight. September 1961 ununterbrochen wöchentlich in shape von Heftromanen mit einer Druckauflage von etwa eighty. 000 Heften (Stand: Jahr 2011) erscheint. Insgesamt sind bisher 2700 Hefte mit run one hundred sixty. 000 Seiten erschienen, deren Geschichten einen Zeitraum von über 3000 Jahren umfassen (Stand: Mai 2013).
Am 30. September 2011 startete parallel zur alten Serie eine Neufassung additionally Perry Rhodan Neo, mit dem Untertitel „Die Zukunft beginnt von vorn“. In dieser landet Perry Rhodan erst im Jahr 2036 auf dem Mond. Die Serie erscheint zweiwöchentlich und ist nach drei Staffeln mit je acht Taschenheften ab Heft 25 in Staffeln mit jeweils zwölf Romanen gegliedert.
Während die Perry-Rhodan-Heftromanserie von den geopolitischen Begebenheiten der realen Welt Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts ausging und die Handlung in einer nahen Zukunft beginnen ließ, geht Perry Rhodan Neo 50 Jahre später von der realen Welt des frühen 21. Jahrhunderts aus und beginnt ebenfalls in einer nahen Zukunft. So fliegt Perry Rhodan nicht im Jahre 1971 zum Mond, sondern erst 2036. Die Handlung nimmt somit aufgrund der geänderten Ausgangslage einen alternativen Verlauf. Die klassischen intent der Serie werden ebenfalls in eine nahe Zukunft verlagert und entsprechend interpretiert. Es werden neue Figuren eingeführt und bekannte Figuren in einem neuen Licht gezeigt.
Die Serie ist somit nicht kanonisch in Bezug auf das klassische Perryversum. Nach der Aussage Klaus N. Fricks auf dem five. Weltcon 2011 in Mannheim wird es auch keine Überschneidungen oder Referenzen zwischen den Serien wie zu den Atlan-Serien geben. Perry Rhodan und Perry Rhodan Neo bilden jeweils einen „eigenen Kosmos“.
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The tentacles moved: "Intelligence hates not individuals but what those individuals represent. " Gaynor found the wall and leaned against it, shaken. The printed words were not only disconcertingly to the point but almost a philosophy. Conquest by the Vrenka had represented, among countless other things, the vilest cruelties because they looked like something out of a nightmare. Things which looked like that must be cruel - an emotional rather than an intellectual reaction. And, yes, even when you fought a human enemy, you fought the conception in your mind.
Don't stick your neck out too far or too often, soldier boy. " "Thanks for the advice. " Hengist was suddenly bitter again. "I have no authority to stop you. " "You're not taking up residence you know, a permanent news contact gets one hour each week. As to your story, we supply the recorder. After you've done your column we check it. " "Well, thanks. " "He may be dead now," said Hengist in a hard voice. Gaynor shrugged slightly and turned away. They were all the same these security officers, stamped out from a machine, killing instruments, with slick provocative tongues and a superficial education.
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