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Perry Rhodan #62
The Blue Dwarfs
Science- Fiction
154 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1972
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About the author
Kurt Mahr
643 books5 followersKurt Mahr was the pen name of Klaus Mahn (Klaus Otto Mahn), a German science fiction writer famous for his contributions to the Perry Rhodan franchise.
He was known among the writing staff as 'The Physicist', due to his original profession, which also allowed him to give a greater degree of scientific accuracy to his literary work.
He was killed in an accident in Florida in 1993, aged 59.
He was known among the writing staff as 'The Physicist', due to his original profession, which also allowed him to give a greater degree of scientific accuracy to his literary work.
He was killed in an accident in Florida in 1993, aged 59.
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June 29, 2024
Another Grautier adventure. Horace Mullon had been exiled, if you remember, after a failed attempt on Rhodan’s life. Now he is murdered.
Fortunately, he is brought back to life by the blue dwarfes of the title. So there is intelligent life on Grautier, of course. And they are telepaths and telekinetics. Not really original. There is also a semi-intelligent life form that resembles rhesus monkeys. And there are alligators on the planet. Very large ones, of course.
So the evil Hollander is behind it. One would wish Mahr could have thought of some better plot. The idea of telling the story of some colonists on a distant planet I like in principle.
Actually, the story not really that bad. That the aliens have never found out the lever principle because they would always use their psychic powers to lift up things is quite a nice touch.
Fortunately, he is brought back to life by the blue dwarfes of the title. So there is intelligent life on Grautier, of course. And they are telepaths and telekinetics. Not really original. There is also a semi-intelligent life form that resembles rhesus monkeys. And there are alligators on the planet. Very large ones, of course.
So the evil Hollander is behind it. One would wish Mahr could have thought of some better plot. The idea of telling the story of some colonists on a distant planet I like in principle.
Actually, the story not really that bad. That the aliens have never found out the lever principle because they would always use their psychic powers to lift up things is quite a nice touch.
December 1, 2018
Several people fall sick in Greenwich on the planet Grautier, the body of the victims becoming covered with blue pocks. Some die. Mullon leaves on an expedition with the helicopter. He is accompanied by his wife Fraudy, Milligan and Pashen, a “Nature Philosopher” who disavowed the ambitions of the criminal Hollander. This last one (Hollander) prepares his revenge and sends three men to eliminate Mullon: Harper, Glannon and Cislarczik. These three travel on foot. Under way, Cislarczik fights with Harper who stuns him and abandons him.
Mullon and his companions establish a camp after the helicopter breaks down. Fraudy is attacked by a snake but saved by an animal which reminds them of the rhesus monkeys. These monkeys, who show a certain intelligence, are baptized rikkis. Milligan falls sick and he is saved thanks to the rikkis who prepare a mush with leaves that they chew beforehand.
Harper and Glannon arrive near the camp. Cislarczik joins them but he is killed by Harper. Mullon, attracted by a rikki, sees them and captures the two men. They leave then for Greenwich. There, the two men deny having acted on the orders of Hollander who is, therefore, not worried. They are condemned to several years of detention, the wreckage of the ADVENTUROUS serving as the jail. The patients in Greenwich are treated with the mush prepared by the rikkis.
Mullon leaves on another expedition with the same team. They establish their camp on an island in the middle of a large stream. The batteries of the helicopter are emptied. They are witnesses to the appearance of thousands of light apparitions that look like St. Elmo’s Fire. In the muzzle of a crocodile that attacked Fraudy, they discover a sort of blue rag that disappears soon. That night, new St. Elmo’s fires occur. The four Terrans faint and awaken as prisoners in a vast room filled with unknown devices. Their captors are the creatures which look like sparkling blue rags. They are baptized the Elmos or the Blues (Blue Dwarfs).
The Blue Dwarfs free them and take them into their city situated under the hill. Endowed with paranormal powers they bring them back to the helicopter where they recover the empty batteries. They are able to recharge them in the city thanks to a primitive current generator. After having destroyed the radio of the helicopter, supposedly by accident, Pashen proves to still be a faithful follower of Hollander. He shoots down Mullon with a bullet in the heart and flees with the helicopter.
Mullon is saved by the Blue Dwarfs. After more than one month, the Blue Dwarfs bring Mullon, Fraudy and Milligan close to Greenwich. Milligan enters in secret into the city and learns that Hollander has taken power. Mullon stumbles upon an unknown man named Gunter Chellish who presents himself as a former member of the “Nature Philosophers”. The Blue Dwarfs come in search for them. They cannot take all four in air. Instead they first carry away three of them, leaving only Chellish. Chellish is in fact a member of the Solar Defense assigned to supervise the exiles.
Mullon and his companions establish a camp after the helicopter breaks down. Fraudy is attacked by a snake but saved by an animal which reminds them of the rhesus monkeys. These monkeys, who show a certain intelligence, are baptized rikkis. Milligan falls sick and he is saved thanks to the rikkis who prepare a mush with leaves that they chew beforehand.
Harper and Glannon arrive near the camp. Cislarczik joins them but he is killed by Harper. Mullon, attracted by a rikki, sees them and captures the two men. They leave then for Greenwich. There, the two men deny having acted on the orders of Hollander who is, therefore, not worried. They are condemned to several years of detention, the wreckage of the ADVENTUROUS serving as the jail. The patients in Greenwich are treated with the mush prepared by the rikkis.
Mullon leaves on another expedition with the same team. They establish their camp on an island in the middle of a large stream. The batteries of the helicopter are emptied. They are witnesses to the appearance of thousands of light apparitions that look like St. Elmo’s Fire. In the muzzle of a crocodile that attacked Fraudy, they discover a sort of blue rag that disappears soon. That night, new St. Elmo’s fires occur. The four Terrans faint and awaken as prisoners in a vast room filled with unknown devices. Their captors are the creatures which look like sparkling blue rags. They are baptized the Elmos or the Blues (Blue Dwarfs).
The Blue Dwarfs free them and take them into their city situated under the hill. Endowed with paranormal powers they bring them back to the helicopter where they recover the empty batteries. They are able to recharge them in the city thanks to a primitive current generator. After having destroyed the radio of the helicopter, supposedly by accident, Pashen proves to still be a faithful follower of Hollander. He shoots down Mullon with a bullet in the heart and flees with the helicopter.
Mullon is saved by the Blue Dwarfs. After more than one month, the Blue Dwarfs bring Mullon, Fraudy and Milligan close to Greenwich. Milligan enters in secret into the city and learns that Hollander has taken power. Mullon stumbles upon an unknown man named Gunter Chellish who presents himself as a former member of the “Nature Philosophers”. The Blue Dwarfs come in search for them. They cannot take all four in air. Instead they first carry away three of them, leaving only Chellish. Chellish is in fact a member of the Solar Defense assigned to supervise the exiles.
December 17, 2024
Das "Kolonisten" Abenteuer geht weiter, obwohl es ja eigentlich ein Gefangenen-Abenteuer ist. Die Rivalität zwischen Hollander und Mullon dauert noch an. Ersterer ist Fan von Diktaturen letzter ist Demokrat. Mullon geht auf Expeditionen in diesem Heft, um Krankheiten zu bekämpfen und das Gebiet zu erforschen bzw. den Planet Grey Beast.
Wir treffen auf sonderbare Wesen egal ob Mungos (die Affen des Planeten) oder die titel gebenden blauen Zwerge, das sind richtig schön umgesetzte Ideen.
Es dreht sich viel also um den Planeten, der wird in diesem Heft so richtig eingeführt.
Der Plottwist am Ende, wenn man es denn so nennen will, ist so lalala.
Minuspunkt gibts dafür das Fraudy zwar Wissenschaftlerin ist, aber immer in Gefahr gerät und dann kommt zack der starke Mann auch schon angetrabt und hilft.
Aber im Gegensatz zu den rassistischen Untertönen im ersten Kolonisten Abenteuer liest sich der hier wirklich besser und an sich schöne Abenteuer-Szenen drin.
Wir treffen auf sonderbare Wesen egal ob Mungos (die Affen des Planeten) oder die titel gebenden blauen Zwerge, das sind richtig schön umgesetzte Ideen.
Es dreht sich viel also um den Planeten, der wird in diesem Heft so richtig eingeführt.
Der Plottwist am Ende, wenn man es denn so nennen will, ist so lalala.
Minuspunkt gibts dafür das Fraudy zwar Wissenschaftlerin ist, aber immer in Gefahr gerät und dann kommt zack der starke Mann auch schon angetrabt und hilft.
Aber im Gegensatz zu den rassistischen Untertönen im ersten Kolonisten Abenteuer liest sich der hier wirklich besser und an sich schöne Abenteuer-Szenen drin.
June 11, 2022
Ich habe keinen Schimmer warum ich mich für diese öden Kolonistenstoryline interessieren soll, und bisher sind der Serie dazu auch keine Argumente eingefallen. Mit solch sterbenslangweiligen Heften wird das jedenfalls nichts.
April 20, 2020
The saga of the rebel planet continues, with another new species
November 11, 2013
Eram oito mil homens e mulheres para quem a conquista de um novo mundo não devia ser empresa difícil. Na terra foram julgados subversivos. Condenados ao degredo perpétuo, foram embarcados numa gigantesca nave interestelar.
Ao chegar ao planeta de destino, a nave destroçou-se durante o pouso. Dois terços de suas provisões foram inutilizados. Com o que restou, os degredados construíram uma cidadezinha, à qual deram o nome de Greenwich.
Assim começaram a dominar a natureza de seu novo planeta. E poderiam ter criado um novo paraíso, se não fosse a inimizade entre Mullon, o já conhecido democrata autêntico, e Hollander, ditador sem escrúpulos...
Ao chegar ao planeta de destino, a nave destroçou-se durante o pouso. Dois terços de suas provisões foram inutilizados. Com o que restou, os degredados construíram uma cidadezinha, à qual deram o nome de Greenwich.
Assim começaram a dominar a natureza de seu novo planeta. E poderiam ter criado um novo paraíso, se não fosse a inimizade entre Mullon, o já conhecido democrata autêntico, e Hollander, ditador sem escrúpulos...
June 1, 2012
The biggest SF series of all time - these early ones are a bit old style
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