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Perry Rhodan #68
Dimension Search
Science-Fiction
155 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1972
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About the author
Kurt Mahr
639 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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December 3, 2018
In January 2042, Perry Rhodan and Reginald Bell are worried. It is time that they renew their cellular shower that must, by necessity, take place before May first. But Wanderer is not where it should be. The artificial planet was almost certainly the victim of the interference between the two temporal (time) planes.
The DRUSUS arrives at the location where the artificial planet is supposed to be and on January 17 the guppy C-238, with Rhodan, Bell, Captain Gorlat and Lieutenant Tompetch aboard, travels into the the Druuf’s universe by means of the Warp-Field Generator. It arrives on a planet whose orbit has been modified lately, probably by the recent appearance of Wanderer. The guppy lands on the planet which is given the name Solitude. It seems petrified by the temporal shift and a ghostly silhouette is repeatedly seen. They follow it and arrive in a crypt where six caissons in the shape of coffins are located in the middle of technological devices. They use a psychograph to capture some thoughts, but the crypt explodes. The slowness of the process allows them to escape. The psychograph proves that an intelligent creature had tried to make contact with them.
Several ships are detected in space. The guppy gets under way and surpasses the speed of the light of the Druuf universe which is only 4.7 km/s. This results in a loss of causality and the hostile ships disappear.
Bell and Rhodan return to Solitude and detect a new spectral silhouette. They find another crypt but before continuing their research, they deactivate the bomb. Suddenly, they feel a strong heat and determine that they have just dropped into the time plane of the Druufs. As a result, the eight hostile ships are again there but the C-238 has now disappeared. The Terrans determine that the six bodies living in the crypt are actually all parts of one living being - a non-humanoid unisexual being capable of dissociating its mind from its body. The mind appears in the shape of an ectoplasm (ghostly apparition). The Druufs are responsible for the mutilation of these Solitude beings and take advantage of them to detect intruders. The Terrans gather the six parts of the Solitude intelligence from the crypt, allow them to recombine and give the resulting, fully awakened, being the name Nathan.
Some Druuf robots intervene and then the crypt explodes. Rhodan assumes that the Druufs passed into their time plane and reconnected the bomb, certainly to destroy an emitter that would have permitted localization of the Druuf’s home world. The robots begin to construct a building, probably to move Solitude back onto its original orbit. Captain Gorlat and Lieutenant Tompetch succeed in seizing one of the robots which appears to have the role of architect. Taking advantage of particular conditions bound to the loss of causality, Rhodan manages to board the C-238 when it rematerializes and to bring back everybody to their own time plane.
When the C-238 arrives back in normal space, it is 21 April 2042. Some specialists take care of the captured robot and learn that Wanderer came back into normal space but at another place of its orbit - a position that it should not have reached for another eighteen thousand years. When the DRUSUS leaves for Wanderer’s new location on April 23, there remains only eight days for Rhodan and Bell to receive their cell shower and keep their immortality.
The DRUSUS arrives at the location where the artificial planet is supposed to be and on January 17 the guppy C-238, with Rhodan, Bell, Captain Gorlat and Lieutenant Tompetch aboard, travels into the the Druuf’s universe by means of the Warp-Field Generator. It arrives on a planet whose orbit has been modified lately, probably by the recent appearance of Wanderer. The guppy lands on the planet which is given the name Solitude. It seems petrified by the temporal shift and a ghostly silhouette is repeatedly seen. They follow it and arrive in a crypt where six caissons in the shape of coffins are located in the middle of technological devices. They use a psychograph to capture some thoughts, but the crypt explodes. The slowness of the process allows them to escape. The psychograph proves that an intelligent creature had tried to make contact with them.
Several ships are detected in space. The guppy gets under way and surpasses the speed of the light of the Druuf universe which is only 4.7 km/s. This results in a loss of causality and the hostile ships disappear.
Bell and Rhodan return to Solitude and detect a new spectral silhouette. They find another crypt but before continuing their research, they deactivate the bomb. Suddenly, they feel a strong heat and determine that they have just dropped into the time plane of the Druufs. As a result, the eight hostile ships are again there but the C-238 has now disappeared. The Terrans determine that the six bodies living in the crypt are actually all parts of one living being - a non-humanoid unisexual being capable of dissociating its mind from its body. The mind appears in the shape of an ectoplasm (ghostly apparition). The Druufs are responsible for the mutilation of these Solitude beings and take advantage of them to detect intruders. The Terrans gather the six parts of the Solitude intelligence from the crypt, allow them to recombine and give the resulting, fully awakened, being the name Nathan.
Some Druuf robots intervene and then the crypt explodes. Rhodan assumes that the Druufs passed into their time plane and reconnected the bomb, certainly to destroy an emitter that would have permitted localization of the Druuf’s home world. The robots begin to construct a building, probably to move Solitude back onto its original orbit. Captain Gorlat and Lieutenant Tompetch succeed in seizing one of the robots which appears to have the role of architect. Taking advantage of particular conditions bound to the loss of causality, Rhodan manages to board the C-238 when it rematerializes and to bring back everybody to their own time plane.
When the C-238 arrives back in normal space, it is 21 April 2042. Some specialists take care of the captured robot and learn that Wanderer came back into normal space but at another place of its orbit - a position that it should not have reached for another eighteen thousand years. When the DRUSUS leaves for Wanderer’s new location on April 23, there remains only eight days for Rhodan and Bell to receive their cell shower and keep their immortality.
July 8, 2022
Joah, nett. Schließt aber so dermaßen nicht an das letzte Heft dass man sich erst fragt ob man sie in der falschen Reihenfolge gelesen hat, und dann wofür die #67 eigentlich gut war.
January 18, 2025
We are in the year 2042. Rhodan and Bell need to get back to the planet Wanderer to receive a cell-shower. If they want to continue their lives. Unfortunately the planet is not where it is supposed to be.
They still have a couple of months to find it again. But the search brings them yet again into the Dimension of the Druufs where time is running more slowly and for reasons I do not understand they finally arrive in their own realm with only one week or so left. In the meantime they of course have found the coordinates and have encountered yet another bizarre lifeform on a plantet they called Solitude.
Rhodan is as always the smart guy, it seems as if he is always explaining to the dumb Bell what is going on. He does not understand and neither do I. At one point Bell thinks he was proud to have been able to calculate 17 * 18 in his head. But that is about his intellectual limit. I liked this but it is about the only thing to like. Mahr is doing his best. But it is not enough.
They still have a couple of months to find it again. But the search brings them yet again into the Dimension of the Druufs where time is running more slowly and for reasons I do not understand they finally arrive in their own realm with only one week or so left. In the meantime they of course have found the coordinates and have encountered yet another bizarre lifeform on a plantet they called Solitude.
Rhodan is as always the smart guy, it seems as if he is always explaining to the dumb Bell what is going on. He does not understand and neither do I. At one point Bell thinks he was proud to have been able to calculate 17 * 18 in his head. But that is about his intellectual limit. I liked this but it is about the only thing to like. Mahr is doing his best. But it is not enough.
January 9, 2025
Perry Rhodan ist mit seiner Crew auf der Suche nach der Kunstwelt Wanderer, denn dort müssen Perry und Bully ihre zweite Zelldusche erhalten um dem Tod durch Zellverfall zu entgehen.
Wanderer ist also verschwunden, Perry und co kommen schnell darauf das es etwas mit der Druff-Zeitebene zu tun hat zu der man sich dann auch begibt.
Kurt Mahr scheint David Hume für sich endeckt zu haben und hat das Kausalitäten Problem in diesem Roman mit eingebaut.
das ist ganz nett, aber auch nicht ganz überzeugend, so wie der rest der Handlung.
Wanderer ist also verschwunden, Perry und co kommen schnell darauf das es etwas mit der Druff-Zeitebene zu tun hat zu der man sich dann auch begibt.
Kurt Mahr scheint David Hume für sich endeckt zu haben und hat das Kausalitäten Problem in diesem Roman mit eingebaut.
das ist ganz nett, aber auch nicht ganz überzeugend, so wie der rest der Handlung.
August 29, 2020
Now we're back in the weird time dimension, and we meet another unique species
January 13, 2025
De constructies met verschillende tijdlijnen in diverse dimensies in het verhaal is voor mij niet te volgen.
November 11, 2013
O ano 2042 representa um marco decisivo na vida dos dois homens mais proeminentes do Império Solar. É este o ano, durante o qual Perry Rhodan e Reginald Bell têm de tomar outra ducha celular, pois do contrário morrerão dentro de poucos dias...
A órbita elíptica do planeta Peregrino foi calculada com toda a precisão. No entanto, algo de estranho aconteceu: o planeta da fonte da vida eterna havia desaparecido...
A órbita elíptica do planeta Peregrino foi calculada com toda a precisão. No entanto, algo de estranho aconteceu: o planeta da fonte da vida eterna havia desaparecido...
May 31, 2012
The biggest SF series of all time - these early ones are a bit old style
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