Re: "Thora's Sacrifice (Perry Rhodan #70)" by Kurt Brand

On 8/24/2024 9:37 PM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:

On 8/24/2024 2:11 PM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:

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I think this and the Thomas Cardiff arc are where I really started notcing
that the series wasn't written with American expectations in mind.

 Do you mean where everything is not a success ?
 Yup, there are definitely tragedies in the Perry Rhodan series.
 Lynn
 

The interesting thing about the series is that it was written as pretty close science fiction in the beginning, and it was intended to only run for a year or so (the main series still is running...). So the early Perry Rhodan novels tried to establish a world 10 years ahead of the current date. Lots of stuff in the early stories did not hold up even months later (the first few novels had thought-reading machines used by human scientists for example).
The whole beginning of the series reads like some bizarre alternate universe, especially coming from the real world timeline. It might not be immediately visible, but there are some real oddities in there.