Search Worlds Without End

PEACELORD OF THE UNIVERSE…

The star-roving Arkonides had taught Perry Rhodan the secrets of their highly advanced technology, and now his task was to construct a huge starship to open communication between Earth and the mighty Arkonide Empire.

But the nations of Earth, in their fear, destroyed the remains of the lone Arkonide ship on the moon – setting off an alarm to summon retaliation from the war bases of the stellar empire.

As the massive space-fleet of galactic dreadnoughts headed for Earth, its mission to turn the planet into a radioactive wasteland, only Perry Rhodan had a chance of stopping the onslaught. But for how long could the tiny planet of Earth continue to hold off the enormous war-forces of the mighty star empire?

MANKIND ENSLAVED…

Perry Rhodan, leader of the Third Power, had managed with the aid of extra-terrestrial super-science to unify the warring factions of Earth. Humankind now stood at the beginning of its greatest Golden Age.

But suddenly there came a new enemy, an alien force whose aim was to destroy all other intelligent life in the universe. Their most terrible weapon was the ability to take over human bodies with their minds, while imprisoning the human minds within their own monstrous insect-like bodies.

No beings in the galaxy had ever managed to survive against the Mind snatchers. Perry Rhodan led his telepathically trained Mutant Corps against them, and mankind’s fate in the balance.

REPTILIAN INVADERS…

Ravaging through the far reaches of space was a race of reptilian beings who compulsively destroyed every civilization they found… and now they had heard of Earth.

Perry Rhodan and his Third Power were mankind’s only hope against these marauders. With his Mutant Corps, Rhodan headed out into the distant besieged Vega system to fend off the aliens before they reached Earth.

But in the savage battle at the Vega sector, his ship damaged beyond repair, Rhodan is forced to crash-land on a Vega planet. And with Perry powerless, Earth is doomed to destruction by the slaughtering Topide reptiles…

THE VALLEY OF THE PHANTOMS

When Perry Rhodan, interplanetary Peace Lord searches to unravel the secret of eternal life, he finds a clue from the past of Ferrol which sends him to the giant planet of the Vega System, Gol.

There, accompanied by two Arkonides, the beautiful Thora and scientist Khrest, and as ever, by his Mutant Corps, Perry explores the planet's surface. And Gol is a monster. Not only has it a gravity far exceeding anything the humans have ever encountered, but they have to contend with an awesome army of glowing forms which attacks their ship…

STAR STRIDE

Dedicated to the search for the world of Eternal Life, Peacelord Perry Rhodan and his Mutant team landed on the ghostly planet Gol, 14th world of the Vega system.

Suddenly the search was interrupted when, under attack by the voracious energy eaters, they were thrust out into space by a pulsator. Saved! But by whom? And now Perry Rhodan realised they were lost in a strange uncharted region of the cosmos...

ARMADA OF DEATH

Perry Rhodan, leader of the New Power, had finally reached his goal – Wanderer, the Planet of Immortality – where the gift of eternal life was bestowed upon him. His mission complete, Rhodan and his mutant team turned the gigantic Stardust towards Earth once more.

But, unknown to the space explorers, five years have passed since their last contact with Earth! They return to find their home planet on the verge of a third world war. And that's not all – the Venus Base is surrounded by the unspeakable horrors of the Dark Planet!

As Perry Rhodan willingly enters the battle he becomes the target of an armada of five hundred armed spaceships streaking across the galaxy towards them…

THE VENUS OF LEGEND

LIFE – raw, primordial – teemed on this young world: on its land, beneath its seas and in its air. Prehistoric life forms, similar to those which once flourished on distant Earth – vicious, voracious… Venusian.

Into this raw young world plunges Perry Rhodan and his men of war in a race against time – Thora, Queen of Arkon, is in hideous danger…

THE WORLD IN PERIL

As if from the entrails of Hell itself an evil Mastermind materializes: MONTERNY!

A super-hypnotist who enslaves the minds and bodies of his own band of mutants and sets them against Perry and his futuremen in a war of wills for the highest stake of all – THE FUTURE OF THIS PLANET EARTH!

300 LIGHT-YEARS FROM EARTH

The aliens cannot believe their eyes – a spaceship of Arkon construction out here, over 300 light-years from the Solar System, in the orange and blue, double star system of Beta-Albireo.

Perry Rhodan has pursued the pirates who have stolen the K-7 to their secret location, deep in space, and now fights against hopeless odds, pitting his handful of ships against 30 alien spacecraft.

TOTAL DESTRUCTION…

faces Perry and his team of veterans. The Springers have decided that if there is no other way of ridding themselves of this daring Earthman and his companions they will blow up Beta Albireo, the ice world which Perry is using as his H.Q.

But Perry has a new lieutenant in Pucky, a mutant animal of super-human cunning, which the Springers are already learning to fear.

EARTH IN PERIL…

The Springer onslaught on Earth is imminent – unless Perry Rhodan's Mutants can stop them. The Mutants penetrate to the heart of the Springer forces – Goszul, Planet of the Gods.

With the aid of the wily Vethussar the Mutants take on the Springers and bring their own brand of guerrilla warfare to the Planet of the Gods. Only they can save humanity – but the odds are stacked against them…

DESTINATION: DISTANT ARKON

After 13 years Perry Rhodan can at last fulfil his promise to Thora and Khrest, the aliens from Arkon who are homesick for their parent planetary system.

Five hytrans leaps, via the great spaceship Ganymede, and the Tri-Planets will be reached.

But in between comes interception!

The Naats! Creatures who lope about on all fours like monkeys. Three eyes peer from beneath leathery black skulls and of noses there seem to be none.

Rhodan and his friends are captured and their ship immobilized beneath insurmountable energy fields They must contact the Arkonide authority on Naat to negotiate their release so that they may go on to their goal.

And if Perry, Thora and Krest get to Arkon, the Arkonides will find that things have radically changed for them at home during their absence.

THE VALLEY OF DEATH…

Spaceship Titan – the most powerful craft in the known universe. It can travel at the speed of light, can even avoid the co-ordinate scanners of the robot brain of Arkon.

Or can it?

Honur – a parched and inhospitable globe.

Here Perry Rhodan must seek temporary sanctuary from the positronicon, and the insidious menace of the Mooffs.

But here too Perry and his Mutants must battle to prevent the break-up of the Arkonide Empire – and survive the mysterious threat that lurks within the Thatrel System…

METALLIC MENACE…

The vital structure-compensator has been installed in the Spaceship Titan. Once more its massive bulk contains the most sophisticated destructive weaponry in interplanetary space.

But the toxin-ridden Nonues have wreaked havoc among the crew. And their deadly Ionized Argon has been artificially produced. So Perry Rhodan must return to Honor, and search the treacherous valleys and desolate plains from whence it came. And Honor also harbors the dreaded Microbots…

EARTH ENDANGERED…

The Awesome spaceship Titan blasts off from Laros, the base of the Medical Masters. But the Peacelord’s troubles are far from over. Suddenly, inexplicable forces spirit eight of his Mutants onto the face of the mysterious world of Gom…

The inhabitants are deadly – yet Perry Rhodan must delay his rescue, for Earth itself is threatened and a deception of cosmic proportions is the only chance of saving the home planet from total destruction…

COSMOS

SENSATIONAL SOLAR SYSTEM SERIAL

by

• RALPH MILNE FARLEY
• DAVID H. KELLER
• ARTHUR J. BURKS
• BOB OLSEN
• FRANCIS FLAGG
• ? JOHN W. CAMPBELL
• RAE WINTERS
• ? OTIS ADELBERT KLINE &
• E. HOFFMAN PRICE
• ABNER J. GELULA
• RAYMOND A. PALMER
• ? A. MERRITT
• R. F. STARZL
• ? EDWARD E. SMITH
• P. SCHUYLER MILLER
• L. A. ESHBACH
• EANDO BINDER
• ? EDMOND HAMILTON

AN EXCLUSIVE FEATURE OF THIS UNIQUE MEGABOOK OF SCIENTIFICTION

PERRY IN PERIL

"KILL RHODAN!" A faction of political fanatics on Earth has secretly organized to murder the Administrator of Terra.

A radical group known as the Nature Philosophers is no less determined to see him dead.

And when they band together—these mad would-be assassins, 30 to 40 strong and backed by 8,000 misguided supporters —Perry's life is truly imperiled.

Rhodan having outlawed the death penalty in the Solar Empire, a different kind of fate awaits the audacious killers and their cohorts who are dedicated to the death of the Peacelord.

You'll hold your breath as you see them in action, the—

SOLAR ASSASSINS

DOOMED WORLD

A PLANET IN PERIL.

A world endangered, facing certain destruction.

But 3 Terranians are intent on saving it.

Whether they succeed or fail is revealed in—

RETURN FROM THE VOID

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BUT THAT'S NOT ALL!

Not by a light-year!

COSMOS

continues!

The Unique! The Incredible!

The Astounding Round Robin Scientifiction Serial Co-Authored by 19 SF Writers from the Golden Age, Featuring

• A. MERRITT! PRICE & KLINE!
• JOHN CAMPBELL!
• "GRAY LENSMAN" SMITH!
• "CAPTAIN FUTURE" HAMILTON
• & 13 Other Great Sci-Fi Storytellers!

DOUBLE-MINDED MECHMAN

A ROBOT with 2 brains!

The Drusus, super-battleship of space, primed for action in the void.

The Weird Ones from the Other Dimension, on the verge of attack.

2 time-planes—intersecting.

The Galactic Secret that piques the Positronicon's curiosity on Arkon.

Bio-breeding plus robotechnology, in a perfect mixture, produce a New Kind of Mechman, a Mentanical with dual brains. For what unknown purpose?

Top Alarm! is transmitted and units of the Solar Fleet swarm out into the Universe, led by Perry Rhodan, who must uncover the raison d'être of the—

SPYBOT!

OUT OF THE BLUE

THE WHISTLERS!

Interplanetary invaders dropping out of the skies of Grautier from its neighbor world to menace the 8000 men and women exiled from Earth and struggling to create a new life far from the interstellar routes of space traffic... and far from any outside help.

Grautier, a gray beast of a world whose inhabitants have so far been found to include a semi-intelligent race of monkeys—the Mungos—and strange Blue Dwarfs endowed with amazing parapsychological and paramechanical powers.

It's an unsettling time for the settlers as they are forced to defend themselves against the... Whistlers.

A mysterious young man from Earth—Chellish—has strict orders from Perry Rhodan himself regarding the Grautierians. Learn his role as one of—

THE GUARDIANS

MAY DAY! MAY DAY!

1 MAY 2042—this is the deadline by which Perry Rhodan & Reginald Bell must be treated to a life-preserving cell-shower by the physiotron of the artificial planet Wanderer.

Or else!

Else, without the biological rejuvenation good for 62 years, perish miserably.

An ignominious finale for the far-flung plans of the Peacelord, devoutly to be avoided.

But Wanderer has disappeared!

The planet that promises perpetual youth, that is the only salvation for Rhodan & Bell, has vanished from the spaceways! Is gone from its orbit!

If it is nowhere to be found in this dimension, the only answer must lie in another. That answer is the reason for—

DIMENSION SEARCH

BETWEEN DIMENSIONS

DIMENSION 4... DIMENSION 5...

AND SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN—

SEMISPACE!

The unknown realm of the halfplane must be penetrated if the planet Wanderer is to be reached in time. For it is the year 2042, the critical date when Perry Rhodan & Reginald Bell must have a biological booster from the physiotron on the artificial world: without the cell shower renewal they will degenerate into old age!

The venture between the dimensions turns them temporarily into giants who cause devastating storms as they cross an entire ocean with one step!

But even giants can be felled (as David demonstrated to Goliath) and our intrepid Terranians discover that—

DEATH WAITS IN SEMISPACE

"THE COLONISTS": EPISODE #4

GRAUTIER, 7th planet of the Myrtha System. Inhabited by gray beasts half elephant, half giraffe; semi-intelligent monkeys known as mungos; and, in the low-lying jungle, the alien blue dwarfs equipped with paramechanical & parapsychological powers.

Grautier, the new home of the 8000 colonists exiled from Earth.

But the 12th planet of this far distant solar system also harbors life—the weird Whistlers, whose recent invasion of Grautier seriously threatened the survival of the colony. Feeling a good offense is the best defense, an intrepid band of men from Grautier repair the spaceship Fair Lady for a most surprising turn of events when they meet up with—

THE AMBASSADORS FROM AURIGEL

"THE COLONISTS": EPISODE #5

EVACUATION TO VENUS. This is the fate forced on a portion of the exiles from Earth who have just begun to get used to the planet Grautier.

Others begin to do service with the newly established Solar Fleet Base on Grautier.

The problem of peril: mathematical calculations have revealed that in about 10 months the Myrtha system will be overlapped by the time-plane of the Druufs. When every volunteer counts in the race against time, there is no time for deserters.

And yet—Perry Rhodan is confronted with the frustrating fact of—

RENEGADES OF THE FUTURE"

IS THE CHIEF DEAD?

A DARK AGE seems to have begun for mankind with the death of Perry Rhodan's beloved Arkonide wife Thora.

Is Rhodan himself dead?

The fear spreads like wildfire as 500,000 men wait in vain for a command from their Chief.

Discovering that the positronic Robot Brain on Arkon is, even beyond the men- ace of the Druufs, in actuality the greatest danger to Earth, the Solar Administrator has ordered the entire massed might of the Terranian Spacefleet to stand in readiness for a blitzkrieg aimed at destroying the threat of the non-human ruler of Arkon.

But Perry Rhodan is on the secret base on Grautier when that planet dies—and Rhodan with it?—in

THE ATOM HELL OF GRAUTIER

EARTH MUST NOT KNOW!

THE ATOMHELL of Grautier—has it claimed the life of the Peacelord? All signs point to it.

The temporary administrator of terrestrial affairs, the chief of security services & the General in charge of the Solar Spacefleet all agree that it would be disastrous for the public to suspect at this point.

The homeworld of the young solar empire is not yet strong enough to absorb such a catastrophic blow.

Meanwhile, YOU will be interested to be privy to what is going on in the spatima (space-time-matter) plane of Druufon, in the—

CAVES OF THE DRUUF

RETURN OF THE COSMIC DECOY

ARKON, DRUUFON. Each world battling for galactic supremacy.

Those responsible for the safety of the Solar Empire must devise a plan to weaken these bellicose giants.

Like other leading figures of the Solar Imperium whose age has been arrested by biological cell shower renewals on the planet Wanderer, Julian Tifflor is still as virile as he was when Perry Rhodan chose him for a dangerous mission in #21, THE COSMIC DECOY. Tiff doesn't hesitate to move—

CHECKMATE: UNIVERSE

DARKER THAN THEY THINK

A ROBOT dies and his death—because he was a governor in the Realm of Arkon—is the catalyst for an interstellar police action.

Enter the Finnmark, a spacer of the State Class, and its commander, Maj. Thomea Untcher. Together they and the crew set out for the water world, Opgham.

But en route to this alien planet, Untcher and his men are unexpectedly, dangerously, confronted by the—

ENEMY IN THE DARK

A PLANET OF MONSTERS

SUPER-SHARKS! With tusks as big as elephants' tusks! They swarm the deadly seas of the planet Ghama, where the Springer Alboolal is chief. Red-eyed killer creatures with the head & body of a pachyderm & the flippers of a seal, a spiny fin atop their backs.

A Terran freighter has been mysteriously destroyed and Terranian "blood hounds" Nike Quinto, Chief of Intercosmic Social Development Aid, and his aide Ron Landry, deploy future commandoes to discover and deal with the enemies of Earth.

The adventure never quits in—

ACTION: DIVISION 3

HAVOC ON HUMANITY!

ROSY the situation is not.

More aptly, thorny.

For out of bitter experience Terra & Arkon know that there is a Power out there in the Milky Way that has no sympathy for either Terrans or Arkonides.

The Blue System harbors the enemy of both cultures.

The ancient Akons.

The Energy Commando is employed and a new menace is created.

The menace of—

THE PLASMA MONSTER

SNAKE ATTACK!

THE GREATEST Kidnap Caper of All Time!

10,000 Terrans kidnapped!

Is Akon behind it?

This is a challenge for Division 3 and once again (see #94) the agents of the Secret Organization are called into action, action calling for the greatest diplomacy, a mantle of invisibility and a devil-may-care approach to danger. For, make no mistake about it, danger abides on every side on the planet Passa, scene of mysterious happenings.

A strange plan is required when the intrepid Terrans meet—

THE IDOL FROM PASSA

A MILESTONE IN THE ANNALS OF SCIENCE FICTION!

The 100th Issue of the Sci-Fi Megabook from the Land that Gave Us METROPOLIS, Willy Ley, Fritz Lang, THE WOMAN IN THE MOON... and the legendary Marlene Dietrich. Germany, via Clark Darlton, Wendayne Ackerman, et al, has given the Time & Space Opera Fans of the English-reading world !PERRY! PUCKY! THORA! KHREST! ATLAN!

HOMO SUPERIOR

Jommy Cross - Slan... Olaf Stapledon's Odd John... Beresford's Hampdenshire Wonder... Weinbaum's Edmond Hall... H.G. Wells' Star-Begotten. One thing in common: superior intellects.

The superior intellect of English author William F. Temple (of FOUR-SIDED TRIANGLE fame) gave us an inspired story that was ignored, forgotten, till rescued in the Ackerman Archival Recovery Series. Start it now—

EXPERIMENT IN GENIUS

109

RHODAN has come home again — to face the galactic disorders caused by the just-ended Cardiff crisis. Ironically, peace in the galaxy cannot be secured until the theft of an entire cosmic armada has been effected! The tale of —

THE STOLEN SPACEFLEET

110

Could the events on far-flung Azgola have disastrous consequences for the weary and recently stabilized Solar Imperium? Has some new power bent on universal conquest emerged from this distant planet? Who or what is Gorathon? Finding the answers is the mission of the men of Division 3... with a little help from—

SGT. ROBOT

113

The Constructors, whose world lay somewhere on the edge of the galaxy, were thought to have been extinct for eons. Perry Rhodan and his staff soon discover that the heritage of the Constructors is as active—and as terribly deadly—as ever. The Terrans cannot destroy their enemy; instead they must somehow harness the tremendous power of the mysterious harvestships in the—

HERITAGE OF THE LIZARD PEOPLE

114

Will the year 2105 be the last year of Imperator Atlan's reign? Will it see the last of the Arkonide Imperium? Once again the old enemies of both the Solar and Arkonide Empires spin their plans of conquest, and the only thing that stands between them and total success is a dead Admiral… and a Terran trick—

DEATH'S DEMAND