The Third Power Series by Perry Rhodan
The Third Power #1
Enterprise Stardust
Perry Rhodan
EDITORIAL REVIEW:Perilous dawn... Major Perry Rhodan, commander of the spaceship "Stardust," found more than anyone had expected might exist on the moon, for he became the first man to make contact with another sentient race! The Arkonides had come from a distant star, and they possessed a knowledge of science and philosophy that dwarfed mankind's knowledge. But these enormously powerful alien beings refused to cooperate with the people of Earth - unless Perry Rhodan could pass the most difficult test any human being had ever faced... ENTERPRISE STARDUST!
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The Third Power #2
The Radiant Dome
Perry Rhodan
EDITORIAL REVIEW:PERRY RHODAN, commanding officer of the first manned terrestrial moon rocket, has returned to Earth. He has landed in the Gobi Desert, where he has established a base with the help of the super-technology of the Arkonides, a human type race from the center of the galaxy whose explorer spaceship had crash-landed on the moon, where it was discovered by Perry Rhodan. Thanks to the equipment from the super-technology of the Arkonides, the base in the Gobi Desert can defy any attack from the great powers of the Earth.Perry Rhodan has already prevented World War III … but he wants much more! His goal is to bring about the unification of all mankind. But mankind is not yet ready for Perry Rhodan’s plans, and therefore, the battle continues for... THE RADIANT DOME!
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The Third Power #3
Galactic Alarm
Perry Rhodan
EDITORIAL REVIEW:Through hypno schooling, Perry Rhodan had learned the scientific knowledge of the star-roving Arkonides, and now his task was to construct a huge starship to open communication between Earth and the might Arkonide Empire. But the nations of Earth, in their fear, destroyed the remains of the lone Arkonide research ship on the moon, setting off an alarm to summon retaliation from the war bases of the stellar empire... GALACTIC ALARM!
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The Third Power #4
Invasion From Space
Perry Rhodan
EDITORIAL REVIEW:The alien Mind Snatchers were determined to wipe out all traces of intelligent life anywhere in the far reaches of the cosmos. Their reasons were not political or economic—they simply could not tolerate the presence of intelligences rivaling their own. With their ability to take over human bodies, move among the people of Earth and ferret out their military and scientific secrets, the Mind Snatchers seemed invincible. Against this fiendish onslaught Perry Rhodan led his telepathically trained Mutant Corps, and mankind’s fate hung in the balance vs this... INVASION FROM SPACE!
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The Third Power #5
The Vega Sector
Perry Rhodan
EDITORIAL REVIEW:When Perry Rhodan arrived in the vicinity of the star-sun Vega, he found a race of human-like beings who were being systematically destroyed by reptilian invaders. Drawn inexorably into the conflict, Rhodan suddenly found his ship damaged beyond repair. He was forced to crash-land on the eighth planet. Now his life - and the safety of Earth - is in the hands of... THE VEGA SECTOR!
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The Third Power #6
The Secret of the Time Vault
Perry Rhodan
EDITORIAL REVIEW:While Perry Rhodan has been away Allan D. Mercant has succeeded in merging all the secret services of the Earth into the Terran Defense Federation (TDF). Arriving on Terra, Perry Rhodan mans the understaffed STARDUST II and its hunter fleet. Then a call for help arrives from the Vega system. The Topsiders have begun their attack on Rofus, where the Thort is exiled. John Marshall, who checks out the Thort of the Ferrones, finds out that he is loyal to the Terrans, but concealing something about the material transmitters. The Ferrones did not manufacture them, for they are not capable of thinking in five dimensional terms. They were given to them by beings that live longer than the sun. There is also a reference to the hidden vault on Ferrol, which is locked with five-dimensional locks. What is... THE SECRET OF THE TIME VAULT?
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The Third Power #7
Fortress of the Six Moons
Perry Rhodan
EDITORIAL REVIEW:The Topidian fleet, so recently defeated by Rhodan and his allies, did not leave the Vega system - they merely regrouped around a planet in the far reaches of the Vegan system and have built a temporary space base on a large moon that orbits a gas giant... THE FORTRESS OF THE SIX MOONS!
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The Third Power #8
The Galactic Riddle
Perry Rhodan
EDITORIAL REVIEW:Thora and others mentioned that they are on a quest to find the Planet of Eternal Life as early as "Enterprise Stardust," but it is with this book, The Galactic Riddle, that Perry's quest for this secret begins. "The Galactic Riddle" begins to be solved when Rhodan and his allies pull the rest of the secrets from an unusual storage facility in the dungeons of Ferrol, the eighth planet of the Vega system. This vault is protected, not by locks or bars, but by time itself, truly, this is... THE GALACTIC RIDDLE!
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The Third Power #9
Quest Through Space And Time
Perry Rhodan
EDITORIAL REVIEW:Rhodan and his associates journey through time, using one of the machines left behind by the rulers of the Planet of Eternal Life, to visit a long-dead Arkonide that visited the Vega System many years ago. Perry Rhodan and a hand-picked number of his Mutant Corps use their special abilities to uncover the secret that the long-dead Arkonide holds for them. We are also informally introduced to a character that will play a crucial role what is to come, in this, the...QUEST THROUGH TIME AND SPACE!
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The Third Power #10
The Ghosts of Gol
Perry Rhodan
EDITORIAL REVIEW:Following clues retrieved from the distant past, Perry Rhodan continues to search for the secret of immortality. Accordingly, the crew of Stardust II is searching a particular sector of the galaxy for structural anomalies. Soon, they discover a particular signal coming from a supergiant planet which is quickly dubbed Gol. Despite the misgivings of his Arkonide allies, Khrest and Thora, Rhodan orders a landing. Once there, Rhodan and the others must brave the lethal environment of Gol to find the next clue left by the mysterious guardian of the secret, while also avoiding...THE GHOSTS OF GOL!
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The Third Power #11
The Planet of the Dying Sun
Perry Rhodan
EDITORIAL REVIEW: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... THE PLANET OF THE DYING SUN!
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The Third Power #12
The Rebels of Tuglan
Perry Rhodan
EDITORIAL REVIEW:Perry Rhodan, Peace Lord of the Universe and commander of the spaceship Stardust, set the hyperjump coordinates for the planet of eternal life. But, as the ship dematerialized, something went wrong and the Stardust raced out of control across the galaxy to the system of Laton, a blue giant sun... thirty thousand light years from its goal! Perry discovers an alien stowaway aboard - a life form, from the Planet of the Dying Sun, with mysterious powers... powers which force Perry and his mutant crew to clash with... THE REBELS OF TUGLAN!
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The Third Power #13
The Immortal Unknown
Perry Rhodan
EDITORIAL REVIEW:The tyrant of Tuglan, betrayer of his planet’s people, has been destroyed. Pucky, the perpetually playful mouse-beaver, born on the world called Vagabond, is now himself a wanderer of the void as he has become an honorary (or is it ornery?) member of Perry Rhodan’s crew. A peaceful return to Ferrol was anticipated by the Peacelord–but such was not to be. Emerging from hyperspace in the mighty Stardust II, Rhodan encounters chaos of cosmic proportions: Vega, a stable sun, is unaccountably turning into a nova! If the Ferrons, threatened with fiery extinction, are to be saved, there is only one course open to Rhodan; he must fulfill the destiny demanded of him by... THE IMMORTAL UNKNOWN!
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The Third Power #14
Venus in Danger
Perry Rhodan
EDITORIAL REVIEW: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 space towards them… VENUS IN DANGER!
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The Third Power #15
Escape to Venus
Perry Rhodan
EDITORIAL REVIEW:Impetuous Thora, beauteous woman from distant Arkon, breaks the bonds of Earth and, with a robot as her only companion, rockets toward Venus as he first step toward returning home to he native world. But she reckons without SBX... and her plans are wrecked. She finds to her dismay that she has fled the frying pan, only to land in the fire of the volcanic primeval planet that is Venus, a dangerous dinosaurian world where giant slugy ugly snail-worms creep and frail flesh crawls and winged terrordactyls swoop in the long long night.This is the stirring story of-- ESCAPE TO VENUS!
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The Third Power #16
Secret Barrier X
Perry Rhodan
EDITORIAL REVIEW:And the hotspot is Venus! Perry and the fugitive Arkonide woman, Thora, are on the planet of peril, a hot-house of horror, menaced not only by the unnatural monstrosities of the natural Venusian habitat but by deadly invaders from Earth. And the positronic brain, not programmed for certain unforeseen emergencies, has sealed off the planet!An impenetrable envelope surrounds Venus! Can Reginald Bell penetrate the barrier via the 5th dimension? If not, Rhodan must rely on his own resources to protect himself from man and monster alike, else perish in a primeval jungle far from his Mother World. SECRET BARRIER X!
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The Third Power #17
The Venus Trap
Perry Rhodan
EDITORIAL REVIEW: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 in 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 VENUS TRAP!
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The Third Power #18
Menace of the Mutant Master
Perry Rhodan
EDITORIAL REVIEW: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!
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The Third Power #19
Mutants Vs Mutants
Perry Rhodan
EDITORIAL REVIEW: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! And now, it's...MUTANTS VS MUTANTS!
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The Third Power #20
The Thrall of Hypno
Perry Rhodan
EDITORIAL REVIEW:Monterny, the master of long distance hypnotism, makes a stand on Mars with the aid of his last mind controlled Mutant. This monster of a man, by the name of Ivan Ivanovich Goratschin, has two heads, and the power to make anything with either calcium or carbon in it to detonate explosively!
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The Third Power #21
The Cosmic Decoy
Perry Rhodan
EDITORIAL REVIEW:Perry and the fugitive Arkonide woman, Thora, are on the planet of peril, a hot-house of horror, menaced not only by the unnatural monstrosities of the natural Venusian habitat but by deadly invaders from Earth. And the positronic brain, not programmed for certain unforeseen emergencies, has sealed off the planet! An impenetrable envelope surrounds Venus! Can Reginald Bell penetrate the barrier via the 5th dimension? If not, Rhodan must rely on his own resources to protect himself from man and monster alike, else perish in a primeval jungle far from his Mother World. This is the stirring story of– THE COSMIC DECOY!
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The Third Power #22
The Fleet of the Springers
Perry Rhodan
EDITORIAL REVIEW:Cadet Julian Tifflor has had his baptism of fire. Graduating from the Space Academy of the New Power, he has been signally honored by being personally chosen by the Peacelord to play the role of unwitting cosmic decoy. He fell into the trap as planned. And when Perry Rhodan rushes to his aid with the Stardust, dangerous trouble ensues during the encounter with— THE FLEET OF THE SPRINGERS!
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The Third Power #23
Peril on Ice Planet
Perry Rhodan
EDITORIAL REVIEW:Perry Rhodan and his team of veterans face total destruction. 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...PERIL ON ICE PLANET!
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The Third Power #24
Infinity Flight
Perry Rhodan
EDITORIAL REVIEW:In search of a super-weapon with which to rescue his Mutants from the Springers on Ice Planet, Perry is en route through the space-time continuum to the Planet of Eternal Life when he lands on Barkon. Shortly after the beginning of time the first civilised being had developed on Barkon. Their power expanded through the Universe, until suddenly their planet left orbit and reappeared in the farthest known galaxy. Now, hollowing out the planet to convert it into a titanic worldship, the Barkonides intend to return...This is the stirring story of– INFINITY FLIGHT!
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The Third Power #25
Snowman in Flames
Perry Rhodan
EDITORIAL REVIEW:The Springers are cruel, cunning and ruthless aliens who will stop at nothing in their mission to take over new planetary sectors and monopolise galactic trade. Earth is an obvious target and when Etztak, Patriarch of the Springers, gives the order to ‘Destroy That Planet’, an emergency message is sent out... Can Perry and his mutants save the solar system?! This is the stirring story of– SNOWMAN IN FLAMES!
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The Third Power #26
Cosmic Traitor
Perry Rhodan
EDITORIAL REVIEW:THE SPRINGERS—those farflung Galactic traders are holding a summit meeting on the planet Goszul in order to plan an attack on Earth. Rhodan is worried--and rightly so. Then--a great break: a Springer traitor contacts Perry, willing to betray his own people. The Peacelord sends several of his best mutants on a dangerous mission to the rendezvous on Goszul. And the more-than-humans are discovered and captured! Thrill follows thrill aboard spaceship and aground on another world as Rhodan and his Mutant Corps encounter interplanetary conflicts! This is the stirring story of– the COSMIC TRAITOR!
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The Third Power #27
Planet of the Gods
Perry Rhodan
EDITORIAL REVIEW: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 GodsWith 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…This is the stirring story of– THE PLANET OF THE GODS!
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The Third Power #28
The Plague of Oblivion
Perry Rhodan
EDITORIAL REVIEW:To forget... to lose all memory, all knowledge of your past...The alien Springers fear such a fate more than loss of life–and so Perry Rhodan and the mutant corps have a devastating weapon when they unleash the Plague of Lethe in the battle to force the Springers and Mounders to set free the enslaved planet Goszul. But can it be done–without infecting the entire galaxy?This is the stirring story of– THE PLAGUE OF OBLIVION!
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The Third Power #29
A World Gone Mad
Perry Rhodan
EDITORIAL REVIEW:On a lonely moon in deepest space a scout for Perry Rhodan’s fleet encounters a strange, sentient orb. As a Springer attack force approaches the planet Goszul, the orbit reveals its awesome power... but what are its intentions?Meanwhile on Goszul, the Springers seem to have been vanquished by the Plague of Oblivion unleashed by Rhodan and his mutants. But the Springers have one devastating card left to play–hidden deep in the mountains, their mightiest battleship is nearing completion...This is the stirring story of– A WORLD GONE MAD!
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The Third Power #30
To Arkon!
Perry Rhodan
EDITORIAL REVIEW:For 13 years Perry Rhodan promised to take Thora and Khrest, the Arkonides back to their own parent planetary system. In five hyper-transitions the great spaceship Ganymede takes Perry, Thora and Khrest To Arkon.But in between comes interception! The Ganymede is forced to land on Naat. Rhodan and his friends are captured, and their ship immobilized beneath insurmountable energy fields. They must contact the Akonide authority on Naat to negotiate their release so that they may go on to their goal. And if Perry, Thora and Khrest get to Arkon, the Arkonides will find that things have radically changed for them at home during their absence... TO ARKON!
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The Third Power #31
Realm of the Tri-Planets
Perry Rhodan
EDITORIAL REVIEW:When Perry Rhodan discovers the home world of Khrest and Thora he finds that three planets are literally, better than one. For Perry has to confront not just Arkon I, but Arkon II and Arkon III. And each planet is dedicated to a purpose all its own: one of them... war! The warrior planet supplies a super battleship of space a mile long... and Perry Rhodan and his mutant crew find themselves serving under Thora on a deadly mission. Deadly... and violent, when the Peacelord and his allies are faced with hundreds of berserk battle-robots bent on destruction, in one of Perry Rhodan’s greatest adventures– REALM OF THE TRI-PLANETS!
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The Third Power #32
Challenge of the Unknown
Perry Rhodan
EDITORIAL REVIEW:Perry Rhodan is on a secret mission on a planet of Arkonide descendants. With him, on a mile-long ‘liberated’ space battleship is the extraordinary Pucky, and the imperious Thora. But new mysteries arise on the planet Zalit. The Zalites are coppery-skinned aliens with copper-green hair. Their planet has become the base of the ‘Watchdogs’–telepathic, marine methane-breathing creatures from another world who establish themselves on Zalit for unknown purposes. What are their aims? Are they malevolent? A new and fantastic challenge for Perry Rhodan and his mutant allies... CHALLENGE OF THE UNKNOWN!
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The Third Power #33
The Giant's Partner
Perry Rhodan
EDITORIAL REVIEW:The Arkonide Empire – overstretched and undermanned, but still capable of reducing the entire solar system to a radioactive cloud. This, the Positronicon will do – if the Zarlt of Zalit reveals the Earth’s coordinates. But the Mooffs control the mind of the Zarlt – so who controls the Mooffs?Perry Rhodan must find out, but first he must become... THE GIANT’S PARTNER!
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The Third Power #34
SOS Spaceship Titan
Perry Rhodan
EDITORIAL REVIEW:Spaceship Titan–the most powerful craft in the known universe. It can travel at the speed of light, can even avoid the coordinate 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… SOS: Spaceship Titan!
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The Third Power #35
Beware the Microbots
Perry Rhodan
EDITORIAL REVIEW: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 Honur, and search the treacherous valleys and desolate plains from whence it came. And Honur also harbours the dreaded Microbots… BEWARE THE MICROBOTS!
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The Third Power #36
Man and Monster
Perry Rhodan
EDITORIAL REVIEW:A sinister psychic force spreads throughout the galaxy. The Mooffs have issued their ultimatum and, for Perry Rhodan, it spells deadly danger.Meanwhile, seven hundred members of the New Power’s crew are critically ill. The Aras, medical masters of the known universe, must be found. And the answer to their whereabouts lies in an alien world of 250-million-an-hour hurricanes and seas of ammonia…This is the stirring story of– MAN AND MONSTER!
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The Third Power #37
Epidemic Center Aralon
Perry Rhodan
EDITORIAL REVIEW:The lives of the crew of the New Power hang in the balance. Artificially induced illness has ravaged Perry Rhodan’s allies, and there seems to be no cure–unless his young lieutenant can accomplish a perilous interstellar mission.First, Rhodan’s agent, Tifflor, must feign betrayal of the Peacelord of the Universe. And then he too falls victim to the ruthless schemes of the murderous Medical Masters…This is the stirring story of– EPIDEMIC CENTRE: ARALON!
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The Third Power #38
Project Earthsave
Perry Rhodan
EDITORIAL REVIEW:Long ago, the Peacelord of the Universe had prevented the robot battleships of Arkon from converting Talamon the Mounder’s fighter craft into a gas cloud. In doing so, he sowed the seeds of his own destruction, for 200 ships of the Mounder fleet are ready once again, armed, and ready to attack! And the most dreaded of the Galactic Traders, the Springers, have devised a scheme so hideous that for Perry Rhodan and the New Power annihilation seems a certainty...This is the stirring story of– PROJECT: EARTHSAVE!
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The Third Power #39
The Silence of Gom
Perry Rhodan
EDITORIAL REVIEW:The Awesome spaceship Titan blasts off from Laros, the base of the Medical Masters. But the Peacelord’s trouble 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 the Earth itself is threatened and a deception of cosmic proportions is the only chance of saving the home planet from total destruction– THE SILENCE OF GOM!
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The Third Power #40
Red Eye of Betelguese
Perry Rhodan
EDITORIAL REVIEW:The Terra and Centurion and 10 mutants defend the Earth against the might of the Springer and Mounder Clans. The Centurion is captured, Tiff and McClears head out in a Gazelle but they are also captured. Is this the end for the Earth and Perry Rhodan? All will be revealed in the stirring story of– THE RED EYE OF BETELGEUSE!
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The Third Power #41
The Earth Dies
Perry Rhodan
EDITORIAL REVIEW:The Springers are gathering a force of 800 ships under Cekztel commanded by Topthor to destroy the Earth.The Topides reinforce Betelgeuse with 400 ships under Al-Khor and move off to the 3rd planet to mislead the Springers. The Titan and the two heavy cruisers make multiple appearances to reinforce the deception that Betelgeuse is SOL. Perry realizes that this is not enough and stages the destruction of the Titan and himself.And so in this final Adventure of the First Cycle read how–THE EARTH DIES!
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