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Perry Rhodan - English #46
Again: Atlan!
Science-Fiction
- GenresScience Fiction
157 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1974
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August 21, 2025
I like Atlan, and I can see why he was created...he could very easily be used as a 'Forrest Gump', telling stories any time in history and say what 'really' happened. I'm not sure if that's what will happen, but it COULD.
At this point though, it seems odd Perry is going crazy hunting for the secret of eternal life when Atlan has it, and they don't actually discuss that at all.. almost feels like the different writers aren't talking as much as they did earlier on... but maybe that's coming.
The action here is 100% an adventure story, with Atlan escaping prison and trying to get off world while Perry and his defense forces chase him, which was pretty fun.
The shock short was a first contact story co-written by Forest Ackerman himself and much longer than usual.. it was ok. Cosmos continues to crawl along... I'm really pretty done with waiting for something to happen there.
At this point though, it seems odd Perry is going crazy hunting for the secret of eternal life when Atlan has it, and they don't actually discuss that at all.. almost feels like the different writers aren't talking as much as they did earlier on... but maybe that's coming.
The action here is 100% an adventure story, with Atlan escaping prison and trying to get off world while Perry and his defense forces chase him, which was pretty fun.
The shock short was a first contact story co-written by Forest Ackerman himself and much longer than usual.. it was ok. Cosmos continues to crawl along... I'm really pretty done with waiting for something to happen there.
April 5, 2020
Another first person perspective of our new favorite Arkonide, the ancient Atlan, with a trip to Venus this time
November 17, 2023
As the title suggests: We meet Atlan again. The man is a prisoner on Earth. And he gets interrogated while Rhodan wastes his time on some Godforsaken planet. I liked his meeting Alan D. Mercant. Unfortunately instead of a long discussion we get some action. Atlan escapes. And makes it to Venus with the help of some Venusian girl. First thing he does when he arrives on this planet he writes the girl a letter. Using the excellent Venusian postal service. What do you expect? We are in 2040. How would people communicate except by letters? (Just to let the American readers know: at the time this was written we did already have telephones in Germany!)
It comes to yet another showdown with Perry Rhodan. This time Atlan wins. And instead of killing the man who does not want him to get back to his home planet he decides that they really should become friends. That, of course, is pulp logic. Nothing wrong with it.
What is kind of annoying is that Atlan all the way through this adventure is telling us what a great guy this Perry Rhodan is. For example how generous he is to give the colonists (which was not yet a dirty word) some land on Venus. (A planet owned by PR it seems.) I understand, Scheer created the man. But he is overdoing the glorification.
We learn a bit of the history of Atlan. Having led Leif Ericson to his trip to America. Having helped da Vinci inventing things. Having helped Hannibal crossing the Alps. For 10[!] centuries he was around helping mankind with the goal of developing an interstellar civilisation. Not a bad addition to the cast of Rhodan characters at all.
It comes to yet another showdown with Perry Rhodan. This time Atlan wins. And instead of killing the man who does not want him to get back to his home planet he decides that they really should become friends. That, of course, is pulp logic. Nothing wrong with it.
What is kind of annoying is that Atlan all the way through this adventure is telling us what a great guy this Perry Rhodan is. For example how generous he is to give the colonists (which was not yet a dirty word) some land on Venus. (A planet owned by PR it seems.) I understand, Scheer created the man. But he is overdoing the glorification.
We learn a bit of the history of Atlan. Having led Leif Ericson to his trip to America. Having helped da Vinci inventing things. Having helped Hannibal crossing the Alps. For 10[!] centuries he was around helping mankind with the goal of developing an interstellar civilisation. Not a bad addition to the cast of Rhodan characters at all.
May 31, 2012
The biggest SF series of all time - these early ones are a bit old style
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