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Perry Rhodan - English #42
Time's Lonely One
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September 18, 2023
This was the 50th issue in the series. And a very special one. I remember that I liked it a lot when I first read it.
It is the first (and one of only a few) Rhodan books that is written in first person singular. Time’s Lonely One (a very good Translation of Der Einsame der Zeit is Atlan, an Arkonide who has spent thousands of years (as we will learn later on) on Earth, most of the time in deep Sleep. But, again only to be revealed later on, he met every important Earthling in his time.
At the beginning of the new age that started with Rhodan landing on the Moon he had gone sleeping in his hideout because he thought a nuclear war was just about to start.
And now 70 years have passed. Which means about 50 years or so after the last episode. It is quite clever to have a sleeper enter the tale because when he learns about what was going on, so do new readers.
Anyway he is to become one of the most important characters in the series. And as is required by pulp logic he must first fight Perry Rhodan. On some lonely Planet thousands of light years from Earth.
Scheer does quite a good job and although I did not enjoy it as much as I did when I was fourteen I did really like reading it again.
7/10
It is the first (and one of only a few) Rhodan books that is written in first person singular. Time’s Lonely One (a very good Translation of Der Einsame der Zeit is Atlan, an Arkonide who has spent thousands of years (as we will learn later on) on Earth, most of the time in deep Sleep. But, again only to be revealed later on, he met every important Earthling in his time.
At the beginning of the new age that started with Rhodan landing on the Moon he had gone sleeping in his hideout because he thought a nuclear war was just about to start.
And now 70 years have passed. Which means about 50 years or so after the last episode. It is quite clever to have a sleeper enter the tale because when he learns about what was going on, so do new readers.
Anyway he is to become one of the most important characters in the series. And as is required by pulp logic he must first fight Perry Rhodan. On some lonely Planet thousands of light years from Earth.
Scheer does quite a good job and although I did not enjoy it as much as I did when I was fourteen I did really like reading it again.
7/10
April 4, 2020
Another time jump, this time 50 or so years. And potentially, Rhodan has finally met someone who is his match
May 31, 2012
The biggest SF series of all time - these early ones are a bit old style
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