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Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime

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In rec.arts.sf.written Richard Todd <rmtodd@servalan.servalan.com> wrote:
> Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> writes:
>
>>     There's time enough at last for me to read my first Perry Rhoden
>> story, named "Prisoner of Time." In it Rhodan's people use a device
>> that speeds up their proximal clock by 72,000 times.
>
> (This is Perry Rhodan #56 in the old Ace US edition, PR #64 in the
> German original for those who can read the German summary at
> http://www.perrypedia.proc.org/wiki/Quelle:PR64 .)
>
> More precisely, they use the "ring-field-generator", I think it was
> called, to enter another universe, the so-called "Druuf Universe",
> where the native time rate is 72000 times slower, while still retaining
> their original time rate.
>
> If this is the only PR book you have access to, have fun, IIRC it's a
> pretty good one.  If you can find/have access to others, you might want
> to know that PR#50 "Attack From the Unseen" and PR#51 "Return from the
> Void" had the beginning parts of the Druuf storyline, and some further
> mention of it in PR #52 "Fortress Atlantis".  PR #53-55 are unrelated
> stories taking place aroud the same time.  The Druuf story line
> continues off and on within the overall "Atlan and Arkon" cycle (PR #42
> thru #91 in the US editions, covering the years in-story from 2040AD to
> 2045AD), reaching a high point around PR #80 "The
> Columbus Affair".

A website, that in retrospect seems shady, sold me a few dozen PR
ebooks in English. Since then perrypedia and a PR ebook retailer [1]
caught my attention.

The retailer seems to offer unabridged ebook editions of PR, in German.
My only remaining task now is to navigate myself through their German
order page. :)

Note.

1. http://www.science-fiction-ebooks.de

--
 ,-.                              There was a young lady named Bright
 \_/                              Whose speed was far faster than light;
{|||)<   Don Kuenz KB7RPU            She set out one day
 / \                                 In a relative way
 `-'                              And returned on the previous night.

What you do speaks so loud that I can not hear what you say. - Emerson.

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Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2015-08-22 02:48 +0000
  Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime wdstarr@panix.com (William December Starr) - 2015-08-22 03:54 -0400
    Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2015-08-22 16:44 +0000
  Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime Richard Todd <rmtodd@servalan.servalan.com> - 2015-08-22 12:49 -0500
    Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2015-08-22 14:56 -0400
      Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime Don <g@crcomp.net> - 2021-11-23 03:30 +0000
        Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime eripe <eripe.dk@gmail.com> - 2022-01-09 20:10 -0800
    Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2015-08-22 20:49 +0000
      Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime Richard Todd <rmtodd@servalan.servalan.com> - 2015-08-22 17:10 -0500
    Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2015-08-22 17:07 -0500
  Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime "nuny@bid.nes" <Alien8752@gmail.com> - 2015-08-22 13:50 -0700
    Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime "nuny@bid.nes" <Alien8752@gmail.com> - 2015-08-22 14:06 -0700
  Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime nebusj-@-rpi-.edu (Joseph Nebus) - 2015-08-23 02:20 +0000
    Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2015-08-24 01:28 +0000

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