Dragon - sons of Atlantis

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Dragon - Sons of Atlantis is a German booklet series from Erich Pabel Verlag , which appeared from 1973 to 1975 and reached a total of 55 editions. The series was written by authors who also worked on other booklet series published by Pabel-Verlag ( Perry Rhodan , Vampir, etc.). The team of authors included William Voltz , Clark Darlton , HG Ewers , Hans Kneifel , Peter Terrid , Ernst Vlcek and Hugh Walker . Most of them later work in the much longer booklet novel series Mythor that follows .

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The continent of Atlantis was once an interstellar trading center and was the center of technical knowledge for humans and aliens. This took place in a hostile surprise attack around 17000 BC. A sudden end: Atlantis was destroyed, the descendants of the survivors fell back into primitiveness without access to the technical possibilities of their forefathers.

Once an astronomer and scientist, Dragon survived the disaster and rested in a cold sleep capsule for about 2,000 years. When the capsule around 15000 BC When it is discovered and opened in Asia Minor BC , its discoverers consider Dragon to be a god. He's not the only survivor of the disaster, however: Cnossos, a long-lived alien who was stranded on Earth after the disaster, is also worshiped as a god. When Cnossos learns of Dragons existence, a struggle for the supremacy of the two "gods" begins.

background

Dragon was conceived in the early 1970s by Pabel publishing editor Günter M. Schelwokat as a pure fantasy adventure. The prelude, which consisted of three booklets and was written by William Voltz, contained clear science fiction elements, and the later booklets never forgot that the fantasy elements were embedded in a "classic" science fiction plot. The series did not find a sufficient readership; later attempts to give the plot even clearer science fiction elements failed. The series was abruptly discontinued (in the middle of the current story cycle) in April 1975. A new, but this time much more successful attempt to establish a fantasy series was not made by the Erich-Pabel-Verlag until 1980 with the Mythor magazine series , on which many Dragon authors also worked.

The first three Dragon novels written by William Voltz were reprinted in 1982 as a two-volume paperback edition. For legal reasons, the name of the main character was changed to "Wakan".

In 1999 Weltbild-Verlag published a new edition of the series as a hardcover . The success of the series was surprisingly good, so that a closing volume was written by Hugh Walker, which brought the plot, which remained unfinished in 1975, to a conclusion. In addition to the 19 volumes, the workshop volume Dragons Welt, edited by Hans Kneifel and Roman Sander, was published .

Two other new Dragon novels by Hugh Walker were published in 2001 and 2002 (the second of the two novels, however, only as an e-book). The series is now discontinued until further notice.

List of titles

No. author title year
1 William Voltz Reach for Atlantis 1973
2 William Voltz Master of Dimensions 1973
3 William Voltz Fall of Atlantis 1973
4th Hans Kneifel The shrine of the sleeping god 1973
5 Hans Kneifel Maratha - the seer 1973
6th Hans Kneifel King of the Vampires 1973
7th Ernst Vlcek The dragon rider 1973
8th Hugh Walker Battle for the rock castle 1973
9 Peter Terrid Robbery of the princess 1973
10 Hugh Walker City of Lost Souls 1973
11 Ernst Vlcek The king and the magician 1973
12 Hans Kneifel Giants of the underworld 1973
13 Ernst Vlcek The hordes of the night 1973
14th Ernst Vlcek Under the sign of the moon 1973
15th William Voltz The valley of the dragons 1973
16 Hans Kneifel Lords of the skies 1973
17th Hans Kneifel Marcos the Conqueror 1973
18th Clark Darlton The aquatic people of Taa 1973
19th Hugh Walker The snake god 1973
20th Hugh Walker The power of the gods 1973
21st Hugh Walker The Brotherhood of the Great Sea 1973
22nd Ernst Vlcek Guardian of the Dead Coast 1973
23 Ernst Vlcek Alesch, the cruel one 1974
24 Ernst Vlcek The nameless one 1974
25th William Voltz Lord of the Crystals 1974
26th Hans Kneifel The island of the Kyrace 1974
27 Hans Kneifel Fight on the volcano 1974
28 Clark Darlton The chariot of the gods 1974
29 Clark Darlton Through the ice country 1974
30th Hans Kneifel The icequeen 1974
31 Peter Terrid Danila's world 1974
32 Ernst Vlcek Pirates of the skies 1974
33 Hugh Walker Ubali, the panther 1974
34 Hugh Walker In the realm of the beastmen 1974
35 Hans Kneifel The dreamer's legacy 1974
36 Hans Kneifel Knight of the Desert 1974
37 Hans Kneifel The caves of the earth spirit 1974
38 Ernst Vlcek On behalf of Vestas 1974
39 William Voltz Servant of the wind 1974
40 Hans Kneifel In the land of fog 1974
41 Hugh Walker Damned of the jungle 1974
42 Hugh Walker The fire killer 1974
43 Hugh Walker Ubali, the paladin 1974
44 HG Ewers The island of the nameless 1974
45 Ernst Vlcek Duel of the giants 1974
46 HG Ewers The eye of the gods 1974
47 Hans Kneifel The master thief from Kartug 1974
48 Hans Kneifel Fight at the spider rock 1974
49 Hugh Walker Shadows over Myra 1975
50 Hugh Walker Master of the Demons 1975
51 William Voltz In the starvation desert 1975
52 Ernst Vlcek The blood castle 1975
53 Ernst Vlcek The vengeance of the enslaved 1975
54 Clark Darlton Horror of the sea 1975
55 Hugh Walker Return to Atlantis 1975

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