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A second, reprint, edition of the earlier episodes now runs 50,000 copies a week in Germany.

And thethird time around on the republication of the earliest ones, theyтАЩre printing 20,000 copiesтАУto
make an incredible total of 200,000 copies of Perry RhodanтАЩs cosmic conquests being read each week!
(By U.S. population comparison,600,000! )

Plus! Pocketbooks (wholly different adventures) тАж hardcovers (revised from the magazines) тАж
comics.

Perry Rhodan has appeared for three years in France, is now in Dutch!

Over 500 Perry Rhodan Clubs flourish in Germany, Switzerland and Austria, complete with membership
pins. Regional and national Perry Rhodan Conventions are held annually!

The first Perry Rhodan film, S.O.S. FROM OUTER SPACE, has exploded on the screens of
Europe.

To satisfy the demand, a corps of half a dozen or more writers is kept busy creating new plots from
the master historyтАУmore complex than anything ever dreamed of in the future histories of Asimov,
Heinlein or Doc SmithтАУmasterminded by Walter Ernsting (Herr Science Fiction of Germany) and noted
sf author K.-H. Scheer.

In Germany, all serious sf buffs claim to hate Perry Rhodan, butsomebody (in unprecedented
numbers) is certainly reading him. When I went to the Science Fiction Film Festival in Trieste in 1965, I
also took a trip to Frankfurt, Germany, and when I got off the train at the station, at the depot magazine
stand the first thing I saw was an ordinary looking middle-aged businessman buying (you telepathed it!) a
copy of PERRY RHODAN!

The PERRY RHODAN series may never win a Hugo. Itmay be panned by both professional critics
and in the fan magazines, USA. But if PerryтАЩs American reception parallels that of the land of his origin,
you are holding in your hands a collectorтАЩs item that will be sought after by those who, like you, will be
hooked on Perry and reading him ten years from now. Which means, if we can get production up to one
a month, by 1979 about 130 Rhodan adventures will have been published-and the Germans will be 800
adventures ahead of us! (This could cause an increase in the USA in the studying of German.)

Can we ever catch up with Perry Rhodan? Well, thereтАЩs no time like the present-and no place like
this pocketbookтАУto start. Ahead lie innumerable encounters with alien intelligences, robots, invisible men,
monsters, survivors of Atlantis, zombies, giants, micro-men-all part and parcel of the infinite panorama of
the most colossal space opera series ever conceived!
 CHAPTER ONE



At the northern entrance to the centerтАЩs main underground building, the heavily armed sentries saluted
sloppily. Lieutenant General Lesley Pounder, commander of the Nevada Fields Air Base and Chief of the
Department of Space Explorations, passed them by, satisfied. Under unusual circumstances like these, he
was not greatly concerning with being given an exact military salute. He was interested only in seeing that
his men were alert and on the job.