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Perry Rhodan #106
The Idol from Passa
Science-Fiction
- GenresScience Fiction
180 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published September 13, 1963
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Kurt Mahr
641 books5 followersKurt Mahr was the pen name of Klaus Mahn (Klaus Otto Mahn), a German science fiction writer famous for his contributions to the Perry Rhodan franchise.
He was known among the writing staff as 'The Physicist', due to his original profession, which also allowed him to give a greater degree of scientific accuracy to his literary work.
He was killed in an accident in Florida in 1993, aged 59.
He was known among the writing staff as 'The Physicist', due to his original profession, which also allowed him to give a greater degree of scientific accuracy to his literary work.
He was killed in an accident in Florida in 1993, aged 59.
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December 3, 2018
Nike Quinto, the chief of Section III, charges his agents Ron Landry and Larry Randall to investigate the Terran colony on the planet Passa where many colonists have disappeared. The Laramie leaves the Earth on 7 October 2102. The two agents make contact with Froyd Coleman, the person responsible for the colony. According to him, the abductions are due to the Evergreens, the indigenous race of Passa. Randall and Landry then discuss the situation with Lofty Patterson, the man who best knows the forest. He confirms the responsibility of the Evergreens. An expedition that went in search for the missing people has already been attacked and only fifteen men out of one hundred twenty came back.
In their turn, Patterson, Landry and Randall leave on an expedition in search for the missing. Their first goal is a house of a colonist who was recently found dead . There, they fall upon a single Evergreen. It communicates with them, after they use a psychoradiator. The translater permits them to understand that the Evergreens obey a god. The Terrans order the Evergreen to go home and then they continue on their way through the forest. Being unaware of the sense of the word house, the Evergreen ends up dying there in place.
According to the path indicated by the Evergreen, they reach the midland mountains and caves where the god is supposed to be. Randall remains close to the glider while Landry and Patterson penetrate into the caves. Each then undergoes an inexplicable crisis of hate. The three men end up finding the prisoners of the Evergreens in an underground cave. There are a thousand human beings who have been captured. Regularly, man-snakes come to sacrifice a man.
The three Terrans manage to be captured and are brought into another cave where there are more than five hundred Evergreens. They are brought before a dark rectangle from which rises a cloud of smoke. The three men overpower their jailers and dive into the hole. They face the one that passes for a god, a creature appearing at the time as a toad and a bear and handling a type of hammer. The three Terrans run away, the monster is crushed beneath rocks, and they rejoin the glider.
The hammer is revealed to be a weapon with several functions. It permits them to destroy a hostile glider which comes close to them.
The Terrans return to Earth where specialists determine that the toad-bear was an artificial creature produced by the Aras. Its shape corresponds to a legend of the Evergreens. Upon their return to Passa on 21 October 2102, agents of Section III use a robot as the effigy of another god to face a second toad-bear whom they defeat. Terran forces then invest the base and stop the Springers who are really the origin of the entire operation, which consists of seizing Passa and procuring for themselves the serpent skins which can be used as a weapon.
In their turn, Patterson, Landry and Randall leave on an expedition in search for the missing. Their first goal is a house of a colonist who was recently found dead . There, they fall upon a single Evergreen. It communicates with them, after they use a psychoradiator. The translater permits them to understand that the Evergreens obey a god. The Terrans order the Evergreen to go home and then they continue on their way through the forest. Being unaware of the sense of the word house, the Evergreen ends up dying there in place.
According to the path indicated by the Evergreen, they reach the midland mountains and caves where the god is supposed to be. Randall remains close to the glider while Landry and Patterson penetrate into the caves. Each then undergoes an inexplicable crisis of hate. The three men end up finding the prisoners of the Evergreens in an underground cave. There are a thousand human beings who have been captured. Regularly, man-snakes come to sacrifice a man.
The three Terrans manage to be captured and are brought into another cave where there are more than five hundred Evergreens. They are brought before a dark rectangle from which rises a cloud of smoke. The three men overpower their jailers and dive into the hole. They face the one that passes for a god, a creature appearing at the time as a toad and a bear and handling a type of hammer. The three Terrans run away, the monster is crushed beneath rocks, and they rejoin the glider.
The hammer is revealed to be a weapon with several functions. It permits them to destroy a hostile glider which comes close to them.
The Terrans return to Earth where specialists determine that the toad-bear was an artificial creature produced by the Aras. Its shape corresponds to a legend of the Evergreens. Upon their return to Passa on 21 October 2102, agents of Section III use a robot as the effigy of another god to face a second toad-bear whom they defeat. Terran forces then invest the base and stop the Springers who are really the origin of the entire operation, which consists of seizing Passa and procuring for themselves the serpent skins which can be used as a weapon.
July 30, 2023
Nach den Kolonistenabenteuern durfte Kurt Mahr aus den fernen USA nun also Episoden rund um die Abteilung III verfassen. Hier das zweite Abenteuer dieses terranischen Geheimdienstes. Nike Quinto aus der Reihe der skurril-cholerischen Charaktere darf mal wieder seine Agenten losschicken.
Warum man aber bei 10.000 (!) verschwundene Kolonisten zwei Leute vom Geheimdienst schickt und nicht mit der ganz großen Keule (Terranische Flotte) anrückt, bleibt mir etwas unklar, aber die Story wollte halt es so.
Danach wird mal wieder eine Verschwörung der Springer und Aras aufgedeckt, die diesmal den einträglichen Handel der Terraner mit den Passa-Kopras torpedieren und nebenbei ein Gas entwickeln, das Menschen unter seinem Einfluss in blinde Wut fallen lässt. Mit einem "Froschbären", der eine Gottgestalt der einheimischen Evergreens darstellt und mit einem Multifunktionshammer ausgestattet wird, wurden die Menschen entführt. Für die Lösung des Problems kommt dann ein noch größerer "Froschbär" als Quasi-Mech zum Einsatz. Dabei sind Ron Landry und Larry Randall auch die ganze Zeit schon überzeugt, es mit den Springern zu tun zu haben - obwohl dafür genau gar keine Beweise vorliegen, bis sie dann auftauchen. Diese Offenbarung fand ich eher öde - viel unerwarteter und spannender wäre es doch gewesen, wenn die beiden sich geirrt hätten.
Am Ende bleibt ein eher unterdurchschnittlicher Roman. 2/5.
Warum man aber bei 10.000 (!) verschwundene Kolonisten zwei Leute vom Geheimdienst schickt und nicht mit der ganz großen Keule (Terranische Flotte) anrückt, bleibt mir etwas unklar, aber die Story wollte halt es so.
Danach wird mal wieder eine Verschwörung der Springer und Aras aufgedeckt, die diesmal den einträglichen Handel der Terraner mit den Passa-Kopras torpedieren und nebenbei ein Gas entwickeln, das Menschen unter seinem Einfluss in blinde Wut fallen lässt. Mit einem "Froschbären", der eine Gottgestalt der einheimischen Evergreens darstellt und mit einem Multifunktionshammer ausgestattet wird, wurden die Menschen entführt. Für die Lösung des Problems kommt dann ein noch größerer "Froschbär" als Quasi-Mech zum Einsatz. Dabei sind Ron Landry und Larry Randall auch die ganze Zeit schon überzeugt, es mit den Springern zu tun zu haben - obwohl dafür genau gar keine Beweise vorliegen, bis sie dann auftauchen. Diese Offenbarung fand ich eher öde - viel unerwarteter und spannender wäre es doch gewesen, wenn die beiden sich geirrt hätten.
Am Ende bleibt ein eher unterdurchschnittlicher Roman. 2/5.
June 3, 2023
Oberflächlich unterhaltsam, nur weiß ich nicht warum man die Story nicht mit den eigentlichen Hauptfiguren erzählen konnte und stattdessen untercharakterisierte Irgendwelche aus dem Boden stampfen musste die mir zwangsläufig am Hinterteil vorbeigehen.
May 31, 2012
The biggest SF series of all time - these early ones are a bit old style
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