"Atlan in Danger (Perry Rhodan #82)" by Kurt Brand
https://www.amazon.com/Atlan-Danger-Perry-Rhodan-82/dp/4411660660/

Book number eighty-two of a series of one hundred and thirty-six space
opera books in English. The original German books, actually pamphlets,
number in the thousands with several spinoffs. The English books
started with two translated German stories per book translated by
Wendayne Ackerman and transitioned to one story per book with the sixth
book. And then they transition back to two stories in book #109/110.
The Ace publisher dropped out at #118, so Forrest and Wendayne Ackerman published books #119 to #136 in pamphlets before stopping in 1978. The
German books were written from 1961 to present time, having sold two
billion copies and even recently been rebooted again. I read the well
printed and well bound book published by Ace in 1975 that I had to be
very careful with due to age. I bought an almost complete box of Perry Rhodans a decade or two ago on ebay that I am finally getting to since I
lost my original Perry Rhodans in The Great Flood of 1989. In fact, I
now own book #1 to book #106, plus the Atlan books, and some of the
Lemuria books.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Rhodan

BTW, this is actually book number 89 of the original German pamphlets
written in 1963. There is a very good explanation of the plot in German
on the Perrypedia German website of all of the PR books. There is
automatic Google translation available for English, Spanish, Dutch,
Japanese, French, and Portuguese.
https://www.perrypedia.de/wiki/Atlan_in_Not
There is alternate synopsis site at:
https://www.perryrhodan.us/summaries/90#

In this alternate universe, USSF Major Perry Rhodan and his three fellow astronauts blasted off in a three stage rocket to the Moon in their
1971. The first stage of the rocket was chemical, the second and third
stages were nuclear. After crashing on the Moon due to a strange radio interference, they discover a massive crashed alien spaceship with an
aged male scientist (Khrest), a female commander (Thora), and a crew of
500. It has been over seventy years since then and the Solar Empire has flourished with tens of millions of people and many spaceships
headquartered in the Gobi desert, the city of Terrania. Perry Rhodan
has been elected by the people of Earth to be the World Administrator
and keep them from being taken over by the robot administrator of Arkon.

Perry Rhodan's son, Thomas Cardif, has joined up with the Springers to
help them take over the Arkonide Empire. Atlan deposed the robot administrator of Arkon but no one knows. Cardif has a grand plan to
depose Atlan and then depose Perry Rhodan. But, Perry Rhodan has plans
of his own and they nvolve the last of the Druufs in the Terran universe.

Two observations:
1. Forrest Ackerman should have put two or three of the translated
stories in each book. Having two stories in the first five books worked
out well. Just having one story in the book is too short and would
never allow the translated books to catch up to the German originals.
2. Anyone liking Perry Rhodan and wanting a more up to date story should
read the totally awesome "Mutineer's Moon" Dahak series of three books
by David Weber.
https://www.amazon.com/Mutineers-Moon-Dahak-David-Weber/dp/0671720856/

My rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars (1 reviews)

Lynn


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Lynn McGuire wrote:

"Atlan in Danger (Perry Rhodan #82)" by Kurt Brand
https://www.amazon.com/Atlan-Danger-Perry-Rhodan-82/dp/4411660660/

Book number eighty-two of a series of one hundred and thirty-six space
opera books in English. The original German books, actually pamphlets, number in the thousands with several spinoffs. The English books
started with two translated German stories per book translated by
Wendayne Ackerman and transitioned to one story per book with the sixth
book. And then they transition back to two stories in book #109/110.
The Ace publisher dropped out at #118, so Forrest and Wendayne Ackerman published books #119 to #136 in pamphlets before stopping in 1978. The German books were written from 1961 to present time, having sold two
billion copies and even recently been rebooted again. I read the well printed and well bound book published by Ace in 1975 that I had to be
very careful with due to age. I bought an almost complete box of Perry Rhodans a decade or two ago on ebay that I am finally getting to since I
lost my original Perry Rhodans in The Great Flood of 1989. In fact, I
now own book #1 to book #106, plus the Atlan books, and some of the
Lemuria books.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Rhodan

BTW, this is actually book number 89 of the original German pamphlets
written in 1963. There is a very good explanation of the plot in German
on the Perrypedia German website of all of the PR books. There is
automatic Google translation available for English, Spanish, Dutch,
Japanese, French, and Portuguese.
https://www.perrypedia.de/wiki/Atlan_in_Not
There is alternate synopsis site at:
https://www.perryrhodan.us/summaries/90#

<snip>

Perry Rhodan's son, Thomas Cardif, has joined up with the Springers to
help them take over the Arkonide Empire. Atlan deposed the robot administrator of Arkon but no one knows. Cardif has a grand plan to
depose Atlan and then depose Perry Rhodan. But, Perry Rhodan has plans
of his own and they nvolve the last of the Druufs in the Terran universe.

This snippet summarizes the story:

The economic collapse of the Great Empire was threatening to
split the gigantic celestial empire in the cluster of M-13.
From hour to hour the inflation took on a more terrifying
form. At Arkon's command, the stock exchanges on all planets
were closed; the rates were no longer quoted. It was useless
to fetch money from the bank and take it home. It wasn't
worth anything there either.

After a brief sojourn into CITY BEYOND TIME by Wright, my next book
became SIGMUND FREUD AND THE JEWISH MYSTICAL TRADITION by Bakan.
Despite popular acclaim, any faith in Freud fails me. He plagiarized
Nietzsche [1], who was also full of scat.
Then TRADITION started droning on about "genius" and "antisemitism"
until Dorothy's eight deadly words appeared in my mind's eye: "I don't
care what happens to these people."
In the end, TRADITION was dropped to make room for Perry Rhodan.

Note.

[1] The influence of Nietzsche on Freud's ideas
PMID: 7728371 DOI: 10.1192/bjp.166.2.251

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