The Earth Dies

Perry Rhodan - English #41

by Clark Darlton, Clark Darlton

Science Fiction

Genres: Science Fiction, Fiction

157 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1974

About the author

Pen name of German science fiction author Walter Ernsting.

Reviews

[Joe Santoro · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a big one! Will Perry's big plan to trick the Springers in thinking they've destroyed Earth work? Will the Topides cause trouble, or help sell the ruse?

This felt like a season finale, and had plenty of drama and action. The good guys are a bit ruthless, which is not something you see every day. I really liked how things didn't go exactly to plan, but required the good guys to improvise a bit in the hopes to try to get everything to work.

The 2nd half of the Neptune part of Cosmos was decent (though not as good as the first half)... I would be interested in the author writing their own thing, but I wasn't able to find any sign of anything but titles.

The other shorts were not super exciting on this one. It did seem there were more illustrations this time.. in the past there have been the occassional bits of art, but there were like 5 of them here, which was fun.

I still would prefer just 2 Perry stories rather than the 'bookazine' thing, but I get Forest Ackerman was nostalgic for the old pulps. I wonder if it would have lasted longer with more Perry?

[Matt · Rating 4 out of 5]

Big epic space battle, with lots of confusion for all non Terran participants. Plus, great title!

[Ivan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ушло два года на то, чтобы добить первый цикл, но дело сделано. Было круто.

[Liedzeit Liedzeit · Rating 2 out of 5]

Rhodan tries to convince the Springers (and the entire galaxy) that the planet they are about to destroy (in the Betelgeuse system) is in fact Earth. Hm, haven’t we read this before? And not so long ago? Earth should get a couple of years of development before Rhodan will continue to create his empire. (It is a trick that will be repeated many times in one way or another in the course of the next couple of thousand years.)

A silly plan, but of course it succeeds because of the help of a certain mouse-beaver.

It is a nicely written novel but not a very good one. One interesting thing is a robot psychologist who with the help of a LLM called Max looks into the mind of the Topide’s computer.

5/10

[colleen · Rating 3 out of 5]

read 08.12.84

[Peter · Rating 2 out of 5]

The biggest SF series of all time - these early ones are a bit old style