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Perry Rhodan, the Glossary

Perry Rhodan is a German space opera franchise, named after its hero.^[1]

Ace Books

Ace Books is a publisher of science fiction (SF) and fantasy books founded in New York City in 1952 by Aaron A. Wyn.

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Albuquerque, also known as ABQ, Burque, and the Duke City, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Mexico.

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Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon, is an American multinational technology company, engaged in e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.

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André Kuipers

André Kuipers (born 5 October 1958) is a Dutch physician and ESA astronaut.

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Andreas Eschbach

Andreas Eschbach (born 15 September 1959, in Ulm) is a German writer, primarily of science fiction.

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Andreas Findig

Andreas Findig (4 August 1961 in Linz, Austria – 7 May 2018) was a writer who won a Deutscher Science Fiction Preis for the short story Gödel geht.

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Antimatter

In modern physics, antimatter is defined as matter composed of the antiparticles (or "partners") of the corresponding particles in "ordinary" matter, and can be thought of as matter with reversed charge, parity, and time, known as CPT reversal.

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Babylon 5

Babylon 5 is an American space opera television series created by writer and producer J. Michael Straczynski, under the Babylonian Productions label, in association with Straczynski's Synthetic Worlds Ltd. Perry Rhodan and Babylon 5 are fiction about wormholes.

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Heinrich Bauer Publishing (Heinrich Bauer Verlag KG), trading as Bauer Media Group, is a German multimedia conglomerate headquartered in Hamburg.

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Black hole

A black hole is a region of spacetime where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light and other electromagnetic waves, is capable of possessing enough energy to escape it.

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Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge

The Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge (Большой Москворецкий мост) is a concrete arch bridge that spans the Moskva River in Moscow, Russia, immediately east of the Kremlin.

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Book series

A book series is a sequence of books having certain characteristics in common that are formally identified together as a group.

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Bubonicon

Bubonicon is an annual multigenre convention in Albuquerque, New Mexico, typically held during the last weekend of August.

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Cessna 172

The Cessna 172 Skyhawk is an American four-seat, single-engine, high wing, fixed-wing aircraft made by the Cessna Aircraft Company.

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Christopher Franke

Christopher Franke (born 6 April 1953) is a German musician and composer.

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Comic book

A comic book, also called comicbook, comic magazine or simply comic, is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes.

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Comic strip

A comic strip is a sequence of cartoons, arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions.

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Dark energy

In physical cosmology and astronomy, dark energy is an unknown form of energy that affects the universe on the largest scales.

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Dark matter

In astronomy, dark matter is a hypothetical form of matter that appears not to interact with light or the electromagnetic field.

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Earth

Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.

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EBay

eBay Inc. (often stylized as ebay or Ebay) is an American multinational e-commerce company based in San Jose, California, that allows users to buy or view items via retail sales through online marketplaces and websites in 190 markets worldwide.

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Ebook

An ebook (short for electronic book), also spelled as e-book or eBook, is a book publication made available in electronic form, consisting of text, images, or both, readable on the flat-panel display of computers or other electronic devices.

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Edison's Conquest of Mars

Edison's Conquest of Mars is an 1898 science fiction novel by American astronomer and writer Garrett P. Serviss.

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Electronica

Electronica is both a broad group of electronic-based music styles intended for listening rather than strictly for dancing and a music scene that came to prominence in the early 1990s in the United Kingdom.

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European Space Agency

The European Space Agency (ESA) is a 22-member intergovernmental body devoted to space exploration.

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Fantasy Productions

Fantasy Productions Medienvertriebsgesellschaft GmbH (a.k.a. FanPro) is a German publishing company based in Erkrath.

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Forrest J Ackerman

Forrest James Ackerman (November 24, 1916 – December 4, 2008) was an American magazine editor; science fiction writer and literary agent; a founder of science fiction fandom; a leading expert on science fiction, horror, and fantasy films; a prominent advocate of the Esperanto language; and one of the world's most avid collectors of genre books and film memorabilia.

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Galaxy

A galaxy is a system of stars, stellar remnants, interstellar gas, dust, and dark matter bound together by gravity.

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Gisbert Haefs

Gisbert Haefs (born 9 January 1950) is a German writer in several genres and translator.

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Gravity

In physics, gravity is a fundamental interaction which causes mutual attraction between all things that have mass.

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Great chain of being

The great chain of being is a hierarchical structure of all matter and life, thought by medieval Christianity to have been decreed by God.

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H. G. Francis

Hans Gerhard Franciskowsky (14 January 1936 – 3 November 2011) was a German author of popular fiction, notably science fiction, and radio dramas.

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H. G. Wells

Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer.

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Hamburg

Hamburg (Hamborg), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg,.

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Hanns Kneifel

Hanns Kneifel (11 July 1936, Gleiwitz – 7 March 2012, Munich) was a German science fiction writer.

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Hanseatic League

The Hanseatic League was a medieval commercial and defensive network of merchant guilds and market towns in Central and Northern Europe.

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Hayakawa Publishing

is a Japanese publishing company, founded in 1945 by Kiyoshi Hayakawa as a crime fiction publisher.

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Hebrew language

Hebrew (ʿÎbrit) is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family.

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Hyperspace

In science fiction, hyperspace (also known as nulspace, subspace, overspace, jumpspace and similar terms) is a concept relating to higher dimensions as well as parallel universes and a faster-than-light (FTL) method of interstellar travel.

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IMDb

IMDb (an acronym for Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews.

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Immortality

Immortality is the concept of eternal life.

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Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov (– April 6, 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University.

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ITunes

iTunes was a media player, media library, mobile device management utility developed by Apple.

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J-Novel Club

J-Novel Club is a publishing company specializing in the translation of Japanese light novels into English.

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K. H. Scheer

Karl-Herbert Scheer (19 June, 1928 in Harheim (now part of Frankfurt) – 15 September, 1991) was a German science fiction writer, usually credited as K. H. Scheer.

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Kurt Brand

Kurt Brand (1917 in Barmen - 1991 in Kaltern) was a German science fiction writer.

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Kurt Mahr

Kurt Mahr (8 March 1934 – 27 June 1993, real name Klaus Mahn; former pseudonym Cecil O. Mailer) was German author and one of the first authors of the series Perry-Rhodan, the largest Science fiction series of the world.

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Light novel

A light novel (Hepburn: raito noberu) is a type of popular literature novel native to Japan, usually classified as young adult fiction targeting teens to twenties.

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Little, Brown Book Group

Little, Brown Book Group is a UK publishing company created in 1992, with multiple predecessors.

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Local Group

The Local Group is the galaxy group that includes the Milky Way, where Earth is located.

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Markus Heitz

Markus Heitz (born 10 October 1971) is a German fantasy, horror and science fiction author best known for his Dwarves series of novels.

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Mathias Rust

Mathias Rust (born 1 June 1968) is a German aviator known for his flight that ended with a landing near Red Square in Moscow on 28 May 1987.

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Messier 13

Messier 13 or M13 (also designated NGC 6205 and sometimes called the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules, the Hercules Globular Cluster, or the Great Hercules Cluster), is a globular cluster of several hundred thousand stars in the constellation of Hercules.

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Milky Way

The Milky Way is the galaxy that includes the Solar System, with the name describing the galaxy's appearance from Earth: a hazy band of light seen in the night sky formed from stars that cannot be individually distinguished by the naked eye.

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Mise Quadam

Mise Quadam (English: Mission Quadam) is a 1995 adventure game developed by Agawa and published by JRC Interactive for MS-DOS.

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Mission Stardust

Mission Stardust (...4...3...2...1...Morte) is a 1967 science fiction film based on the early novels of the popular German Perry Rhodan series by K.H. Scheer and Walter Ernsting.

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Moon landing

A Moon landing or lunar landing is the arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon, including both crewed and robotic missions.

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Moscow

Moscow is the capital and largest city of Russia.

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Novella

A novella is a narrative prose fiction whose length is shorter than most novels, but longer than most novelettes and short stories.

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Online auction

An online auction (also electronic auction, e-auction, virtual auction, or eAuction) is an auction held over the internet and accessed by internet connected devices.

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Online shopping is a form of electronic commerce which allows consumers to directly buy goods or services from a seller over the Internet using a web browser or a mobile app.

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Parallel universes in fiction

A parallel universe, also known as an alternate universe, parallel world, parallel dimension, alternate reality, or alternative dimension, is a hypothetical self-contained layer or plane of existence, co-existing with one's own.

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Positronic brain

A positronic brain is a fictional technological device, originally conceived by science fiction writer Isaac Asimov.

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Pulp magazine

Pulp magazines (also referred to as "the pulps") were inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 until around 1955. Perry Rhodan and pulp magazine are pulp fiction.

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Radio drama

Radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play, radio theatre, or audio theatre) is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance.

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Reboot (fiction)

In serial fiction, the term "reboot" signifies a new start to an established fictional universe, work, or series.

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Red Square

Red Square (Krasnaya ploshchad') is one of the oldest and largest squares in Moscow, the capital of Russia.

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Saarbrücken

Saarbrücken (Saar Bridges; Rhenish Franconian: Sabrigge; Sarrebruck; Saarbrécken; Saravipons) is the capital and largest city of the state of Saarland, Germany.

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Short story

A short story is a piece of prose fiction.

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Space opera

Space opera is a subgenre of science fiction that emphasizes space warfare, with use of melodramatic, risk-taking space adventures, relationships, and chivalric romance.

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Story arc

A story arc (also narrative arc) is the chronological construction of a plot in a novel or story.

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Stuart J. Byrne

Stuart James Byrne (October 26, 1913 – September 23, 2011) was an American screenwriter and writer of science fiction and fantasy.

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Tangerine Dream

Tangerine Dream is a German electronic music band founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese.

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Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv-Yafo (translit,; translit), usually referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the Gush Dan metropolitan area of Israel.

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The Immortals of Terra: A Perry Rhodan Adventure

The Immortals of Terra: A Perry Rhodan Adventure, known in the United Kingdom as Rhodan: Myth of the Illochim, is an adventure game developed by Braingame and published by Koch Media and Viva Media for Microsoft Windows in 2008.

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The Time Machine

The Time Machine is an 1895 dystopian post-apocalyptic science fiction novella by H. G. Wells about a Victorian scientist known as the Time Traveller who travels approximately 800,806 years into the future. Perry Rhodan and the Time Machine are novels about time travel.

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Time travel

Time travel is the hypothetical activity of traveling into the past or future.

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Toi8

toi8 (born October 8, 1976) is a Japanese artist.

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Tom Doherty

Tom Doherty (born April 23, 1935) is an American publisher and the founder of the science fiction and fantasy book publisher Tor Books.

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Video game

A video game or computer game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, controller, keyboard, or motion sensing device) to generate visual feedback from a display device, most commonly shown in a video format on a television set, computer monitor, flat-panel display or touchscreen on handheld devices, or a virtual reality headset.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Rhodan

Also known as Atlan da Gonozal, Dolan (bioship), Planetenromane, Rhodan.

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Perry Rhodan, the Glossary

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See also

Biorobotics in fiction

Book series introduced in 1961

Exploratory engineering

Fiction about ancient astronauts

Fiction about cyborgs

Fiction about megastructures

Fiction about robots

Fiction about telepathy

Fiction about terraforming

Fiction set around Messier 13

Fictional United States Space Force personnel

German science fiction novels

Literary characters introduced in 1961

Mutants in fiction

Pulp fiction

Retrofuturism

Science fantasy

Soft science fiction

Space opera

References