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Lynn McGuire wrote:
"Perry Rhodan 79: The Sleepers" by William Voltz
https://www.amazon.com/Perry-Rhodan-79-William-Voltz/dp/B001NEVE4S/
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BTW, this is actually book number 87 of the German pamphlets written in
1963. There is a very good explanation of the plot in German on the Perrypedia German website of all of the PR books. There is automatic
Google translation available for English, Spanish, Dutch, Japanese,
French, and Portuguese.
https://www.perrypedia.de/wiki/Die_Schl%C3%A4fer_der_ISC
There is alternate synopsis site at:
https://www.perryrhodan.us/summaries/87#
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Maurice Dunbee is going to sleep the next 300 hundred years away. His
life is a failure according to himself. But his wife hires a private investigator to find him and the shady organization that is going to
maintain his body for him for 300 years.
Either a subterranean scene or a story set in my home state of Wyoming
almost always adds to my enjoyment. This PR installment features both:
an underground facility in Wyoming.
Copy and paste of a previously posted article:
PR "Nr. 87 Die Schläfer der ISC" / "#97 The Sleepers" debuts a PI named Richard Kennof. (You never know when a character will pop up again in a subsequent story.)
Kennof's hired to discover the whereabouts of deepsleep candidate
Maurice Dunbee, last seen in Wyoming in the vicinity of Yellowstone
National Park, on the premises of Intertime Sleeping Corporation (ICS).
The government, the Department of Interior, reportedly regulates ICS to
ensure everything's on the up and up.
In order to get on the inside as a deepsleeper, Kennof needs to
convince ICS he wants to sleep for 300 years in order to escape
financial ruin and a slutty fiancée. Ackerman's Ace says it this way:
When he paid a last visit to the Department of Interior
he was already a marked man-except to a few in whom he
confided-who had nothing but creditors and a slut as a fiancée.
Meanwhile, the German Moewig pulp uses "verachtungswürdige Braut" or "contemptible bride." LOL.
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Anyhow Ted, this installment's yet another Voltz. So ... you know.
Allow me to return to the "though as tho" and "although as altho"
Ackerman argot. Upon further reflection, it now seems an editorial
oversight whenever either is /correctly/ spelled. Ackerman most likely
prefers "altho" and "tho."
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Lynn, "#112 Planet Mechanica" will soon be finished by me. Only a half a
dozen Aces remain to be read.
Then it's time to bid a fond adieu to the Ackerman part of the Ace portmanteau with a hardy "don't let the door hit you where the Good Lord
split you" reserved for its arrogant publisher.
English PR pulps persevere next under Master Publications.
Danke,
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