The terranauts
The Terranauten is a German series of science fiction - Issue novels , by W. Rolf Liersch and Thomas RP Mielke designed and Bastei between 30 October 1979 and 21 December was issued with 99 spending as a pulp novel series 1,981th During this period, alongside Perry Rhodan , Atlan and TERRA ASTRA, it was the only weekly science fiction magazine series on the German market that was otherwise dominated by magazine series of the horror genre. From 1981 to 1987 the series was continued with 18 paperback editions. From 2009 appears under the direction of Manfred H. Rückert in Mohlberg-Verlag are combined - with slight revisions - a new edition in book form, in which three dime novel in one volume.
concept
The concept of the series was to tell the story of the struggle against the destruction of the earth. The protagonists advocate a more humane future. The inventors Mielke / Liersch wanted to differentiate the series from the successful Perry Rhodan series, as Mielke wrote to Bastei Verlag in 1977 to generate an "anti-Perry Rhodan story". At first the plan seemed to have worked, but the decline in sales with increasing numbers finally caused the series to be discontinued.
The contents of individual novels can be viewed as socially and socially critical. Climate change and globalization were extrapolated in a remarkable way by the authors and today find parallels in reality. In the behavior of the protagonists, the conceptors attached great importance to the fact that no “leather neck ideology” spreads. Their goal was to "write committed SF".
action
The plot of the Terranaut series begins in 2499. The nation-states have perished. Corporations have taken power since the 21st century. All corporations are united in the council. On earth there is a strict caste system that ranges from the Summacum (upper class) to Manags, Arbiter, humos with useful minimum wages, to the Nonames who are provided for for life.
The Council of Corporations maintains the Gray Guards as an army of order. The army is privately owned by the Great Grays, the military supreme command is incumbent on the council chairman, who also bears the title "Lord Colonel". The guardsmen are absolutely obedient receiving orders through brain surgery.
Interstellar space travel is in the hands of a group of people called drivers. The parapsychologically gifted drivers enable faster-than-light space travel in space II through PSI forces and through the mistletoe of the primordial tree "Yggdrasil", which is equipped with a consciousness. The management of the primeval tree and the valuable mistletoe is the responsibility of the terGorden family's biotronic group. Normally, the minimum number of 7 drivers are required for propulsion and control of a spaceship, which combine to form a lodge under a lodge master on each ship.
From around 2499 the Kaiser group, under the leadership of the council chairman Max von Valdec, tried to break the monopoly of drivers with a new technical drive. The spaceships do not glide "gently" into the other continuum through these new imperial power units, but the imperial power violently tears open space II and thereby causes dimensional tensions and breakdowns of energy into normal space. Due to the increase in disturbances in the energy structure, other (non-human) peoples become aware of the earth.
A pursuit of the drivers begins through the Gray Garden, some of them are able to flee to a planet that is located in a black hole. This planet Rorqual becomes the base of the resistance movement. David terGorden gathers these terranauts around him and delivers battles to the troops of the dictator Max von Valdec in the whole star realm.
In the further course of a civil war, the corporations are overthrown and a democratic society emerges. The council chairman can, however, carry out another coup. Through the imperial power propagated by him, he brings humanity to the brink of annihilation, since the extraterrestrial peoples fear for the stability of the cosmos and are determined to take action against the earthly star kingdom. Ultimately, David terGorden can avert the ultimate destruction of the entities - these are the most powerful intelligences in the universe - against human life and win the duel against Max von Valdec.
Authors
The team of authors consisted of both relatively unknown and very experienced German science fiction authors who all wrote the series under pseudonyms.
- Robert Quint is a pseudonym of Rainer Zubeil , better known under his pseudonym Thomas Ziegler, who wrote for the competing Perry-Rhodan series after the 'Terranauts' were discontinued.
- Art Norman is a pseudonym of Werner Kurt Giesa , who was the lead author for Professor Zamorra for 30 years .
- Eva Christoff is a pseudonym of Eva Bauche-Eppers , the only woman on the team.
- Michael Roberts is a pseudonym of Hans Wolf Sommer .
- Erno Fischer is a pseudonym of Wilfried A. Hary , who also wrote a booklet for Atlan , an offshoot of the Perry Rhodan series.
- Conrad C. Steiner is a pseudonym of Ronald M. Hahn , who has been awarded the Kurd-Laßwitz Prize several times .
- Harald Münzer is a pseudonym of Karl-Ulrich Burgdorf , who also translated several novels by Philip K. Dick into German.
- Henry Roland and Henry Robert are pseudonyms of Horst Pukallus , who has also been awarded the Kurd-Laßwitz Prize several times.
- Andreas Weiler is a pseudonym of Andreas Brandhorst , also a Kurd-Laßwitz-Prize-winner.
- Arno Zoller is a pseudonym of Rolf W. Liersch .
Track list
notebooks
No. | author | title | year |
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1 | Robert Quint | The heir to power | 1979 |
2 | Kind Norman | Rebel spaceship | 1979 |
3 | Eva Christoff | The Kaiser plot | 1979 |
4th | Michael Roberts | Terranaut revolt | 1979 |
5 | Michael Roberts | The fleet of drivers | 1979 |
6th | Eva Christoff | The psi inferno | 1979 |
7th | Eva Christoff | The children of Yggdrasil | 1980 |
8th | Carl Priest | City of madness | 1980 |
9 | Robert Quint | The belt man's hour | 1980 |
10 | Robert Quint | Revolt on Luna | 1980 |
11 | Robert Quint | Planet of the Lodge Masters | 1980 |
12 | Robert Quint | The triumph of the lord colonel | 1980 |
13 | Erno Fischer | The stranger | 1980 |
14th | Robert Quint | In the realm of the winged | 1980 |
15th | Robert Quint | The clan of magicians | 1980 |
16 | Conrad C. Steiner | Stranded on Rorqual | 1980 |
17th | Conrad C. Steiner | The pirates of the Scarlet Sea | 1980 |
18th | Conrad C. Steiner | Odyssey of the Lost | 1980 |
19th | Erno Fischer | Company doomsday | 1980 |
20th | Erno Fischer | Comet of Annihilation | 1980 |
21st | Erno Fischer | Oxide death zone | 1980 |
22nd | Robert Quint | The disaster planet | 1980 |
23 | Erno Fischer | The outcasts of Terra | 1980 |
24 | Robert Quint | The spaceship thieves | 1980 |
25th | Robert Quint | Excursion into the morning | 1980 |
26th | Robert Quint | The way to Argus | 1980 |
27 | Henry Roland | The transmitter tree | 1980 |
28 | Robert Quint | The Psi Seekers | 1980 |
29 | Eva Christoff | Invasion of Dead Souls | 1980 |
30th | Eva Christoff | look in the past | 1980 |
31 | Eva Christoff | The lonely one from Ultima Thule | 1980 |
32 | Erno Fischer | The Exiles from Oxyd | 1980 |
33 | Michael Roberts | The fight for aqua | 1980 |
34 | Michael Roberts | The renegade | 1980 |
35 | Robert Quint | The pirate lodge | 1980 |
36 | Robert Quint | Flames over Shondyke | 1980 |
37 | Andreas Weiler | Star legend | 1980 |
38 | Andreas Weiler | Narda's fight | 1980 |
39 | Michael Roberts | The gravity trap | 1980 |
40 | Andreas Weiler | A computer goes crazy | 1980 |
41 | Andreas Weiler | The green planet | 1980 |
42 | Harald Münzer | The collector | 1980 |
43 | Andreas Weiler | Breeding station for the super drivers | 1980 |
44 | Andreas Weiler | The getaway ship | 1981 |
45 | Robert Quint | A trap for Llewellyn | 1981 |
46 | Andreas Weiler | The ice devil | 1981 |
47 | Andreas Weiler | The epidemic of hate | 1981 |
48 | Andreas Weiler | Narda and the lord colonel | 1981 |
49 | Robert Quint | The computer ultimatum | 1981 |
50 | Robert Quint | Threat from the stars | 1981 |
51 | Conrad C. Steiner | World in chaos | 1981 |
52 | Conrad C. Steiner | The odyssey of the Somasa | 1981 |
53 | Andreas Weiler | The hiding place of the alien | 1981 |
54 | Robert Quint | The fall of the lord colonel | 1981 |
55 | Henry Roland | The wreck system | 1981 |
56 | Conrad C. Steiner | The dragon witches | 1981 |
57 | Robert Quint | Drive to the end of the world | 1981 |
58 | Henry Roland | The heart of Rorqual | 1981 |
59 | Arno Zoller | A world for Yggdrasil | 1981 |
60 | Arno Zoller | Duel in solitude | 1981 |
61 | Andreas Weiler | Death awaits Sarym | 1981 |
62 | Andreas Weiler | The hell of Arioch | 1981 |
63 | Andreas Weiler | War of the brains | 1981 |
64 | Erno Fischer | Planet extinction | 1981 |
65 | Erno Fischer | The Life Carriers | 1981 |
66 | Robert Quint | In the light of the murderous sun | 1981 |
67 | Robert Quint | The planet looters | 1981 |
68 | Robert Quint | The programmed assassin | 1981 |
69 | Andreas Weiler | The bio-invasion | 1981 |
70 | Andreas Weiler | The green paradise | 1981 |
71 | Erno Fischer | The curse of millions of years | 1981 |
72 | Andreas Weiler | The legacy in the ice | 1981 |
73 | Erno Fischer | Ultima Thule machines | 1981 |
74 | Erno Fischer | Yggdrasil's legacy | 1981 |
75 | Henry Roland | Spaceship hunt | 1981 |
76 | Andreas Weiler | War the cast | 1981 |
77 | Henry Roland | Target Perculion | 1981 |
78 | Robert Quint | Breakthrough to Shondyke | 1981 |
79 | Robert Quint | Die for Terra | 1981 |
80 | Michael Roberts | The sky mountain | 1981 |
81 | Michael Roberts | Driver pirate | 1981 |
82 | Michael Roberts | The mistletoe syndicate | 1981 |
83 | Andreas Weiler | Chaos over Sarym | 1981 |
84 | Andreas Weiler | The gene parasites | 1981 |
85 | Robert Quint | Valdec's return | 1981 |
86 | Robert Quint | The harried one from Terra | 1981 |
87 | Andreas Weiler | Maze of horror | 1981 |
88 | Andreas Weiler | The exile planet | 1981 |
89 | Robert Quint | The emperor of Berlin | 1982 |
90 | Andreas Weiler | The ship of peace | 1982 |
91 | Erno Fischer | The Genessos Marshes | 1982 |
92 | Erno Fischer | The secret of the Genessaner | 1982 |
93 | Henry Roland | The galactic archive | 1982 |
94 | Henry Roland | The old forest | 1982 |
95 | Andreas Weiler | Star city meeting point | 1982 |
96 | Andreas Weiler | Planet of illusions | 1982 |
97 | Robert Quint | The preemptive strike | 1982 |
98 | Robert Quint | Duel of dreams | 1982 |
99 | Robert Quint | The eco-shock | 1982 |
The title identity between volume 40, “A computer plays crazy” by Andreas Weiler, and Perry Rhodan's booklet 1008, “A computer plays crazy” by Ernst Vlcek , which appeared almost at the same time , is coincidental.
When the issues were reprinted, three were combined into one volume; one of the three corresponding issue titles was chosen as the volume title:
notebooks | Volume (reprint) | title |
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01-03 | 01 | The heir to power |
04-06 | 02 | Psi inferno |
07-09 | 03 | City of madness |
10-12 | 04 | The triumph of the lord colonel |
13-15 | 05 | Planet of the winged |
16-18 | 06 | Odyssey of the Lost |
19-21 | 07 | Oxide death zone |
22-24 | 08 | The spaceship thieves |
25-27 | 09 | Excursion into the morning |
28-30 | 10 | Invasion of Dead Souls |
31-33 | 11 | The lonely one from Ultima Thule |
34-36 | 12 | Flames over Shondyke |
37-39 | 13 | Star legend |
40-42 | 14th | The green planet |
43-45 | 15th | A trap for Llewellyn |
46-48 | 16 | The ice devil |
49-51 | 17th | Threat from the stars |
52-54 | 18th | The hiding place of the alien |
55-57 | 19th | The wreck system |
58-60 | 20th | Duel in solitude |
61-63 | 21st | War of the brains |
64-66 | 22nd | Planet extinction |
67-69 | 23 | The planet raiders |
70-72 | 24 | The legacy in the ice |
73-75 | 25th | Spaceship hunt |
76-78 | 26th | Target Perculion |
79-81 | 27 | Die for Terra |
82-84 | 28 | The gene parasites |
85-87 | 29 | The Haunted of Terra |
88-90 | 30th | The emperor of Berlin |
91-93 | 31 | The Galactic Archive |
94-96 | 32 | Planet of illusions |
97-99 | 33 | The eco-shock |
pocketbooks
The first paperback volume Sternenstaub by Rolf W. Liersch was a prequel to the contents of the magazine series, the following titles then followed the plot of the magazine series. For the reprints, two paperbacks were combined in one volume and the title of the first original volume was adopted.
No. | Reprint no. | TB no. | author | title | year |
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000 | 34 | 28003 | Rolf W. Liersch | Stardust | 1981 |
100 | 34 | 23010 | Andreas Weiler | The green phoenix | 1982 |
101 | 35 | 23014 | Robert Quint | Planetary pattern | 1982 |
102 | 35 | 23022 | Robert Quint | Time window | 1983 |
103 | 36 | 23026 | Andreas Weiler | Cosmic labyrinth | 1983 |
104 | 36 | 23030 | Andreas Weiler | Monument of the Titans | 1984 |
105 | 37 | 23032 | Andreas Weiler | The black ruler | 1984 |
106 | 37 | 23034 | Robert Quint | The gray trail | 1984 |
107 | 38 | 23036 | Erno Fischer | The ship of dreams | 1984 |
108 | 38 | 23038 | Andreas Weiler | The star catcher | 1984 |
109 | 39 | 23040 | Andreas Weiler | Spectrum Hunt | 1984 |
110 | 39 | 23042 | Andreas Weiler | The white star | 1985 |
111 | 40 | 23044 | Henry Robert | The life guardians | 1985 |
112 | 40 | 23046 | Henry Robert | The last manag | 1985 |
113 | 41 | 23048 | Andreas Weiler | In the 176th year | 1985 |
114 | 41 | 23051 | Henry Robert | The techno team | 1985 |
115 | 42 | 23054 | Andreas Weiler | The organic slaves | 1986 |
116 | 42 | 23069 | Andreas Weiler | The Terranaut Project | 1987 |
literature
- Stefan Pannor: The Eco-Skywalker. Article in the Frankfurter Rundschau (online) on August 2, 2009.
Web links
- www.terranauten.de , fansite from Jürgen Weinzierl
- Armin Möhle: The world of the terranauts
- The Terranauts , list of titles in the booklet archive
- Literature by and about Die Terranauten in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Manfred Nagl: Science Fiction: A segment of popular culture in the media and product association . Gunter Narr Verlag, 1981, ISBN 978-3-87808-925-4 , pp. 40 .
- ^ A b c Letter from Thomas Mielke to Bastei-Verlag from April 7, 1977: 1st page , 2nd page
- ^ A b Rainer Zubeil, Werner Giesa, Eva Eppers : The Terranauts. Volume 1. The Heir to Power. (Terranaut glossary in the appendix) . 1st edition. Mohlberg-Verlag, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-940181-90-9 , p. 244-248 .
- ^ A b Hans Wolf Sommer, Eva Eppers: The Terranauts. Volume 2. The PSI Inferno. (Terranaut glossary in the appendix) . 1st edition. Mohlberg – Verlag, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-940181-91-6 , p. 230-236 .
- ↑ The makers behind the Terranauts. In: www.terranauten.de. Retrieved January 11, 2008 .