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ENTERPRISE STARDUST

K.H.Scheer

THE FANTASTI

C SPACE OPERA SERIES

THAT HAS RUN 8 YEARS IN EUROPE!

LIGHT-YEARS AHEAD OF ALL OTHERS

Major Perry Rhodan, commander of the spaceship

STARDUST, found more than anyone had expected might

exist on the moon — for he became the first man to make

contact with another sentient race!

The Arkonides had come from a distant star, and they

possessed a knowledge of science and philosophy that

dwarfed mankind’s knowledge.

But these enormously powerful alien beings refused to co-

operate with the people of Earth… unless Perry Rhodan

could pass the most difficult test any human being had ever

faced…

ENTERPRISE STARDUST is the first novel in the Perry

Rhodan series which sold more than 70 million copies in

Europe.

ENTERPRISE STARDUST

Perry Rhodan had returned from the moon in Spaceship

Stardust accompanied by two of the Arkonides. But the earth

was on the verge of an atomic conflict. So Perry Rhodan,

Peacelord of the Universe, threw an impregnable forcefield

around the Stardust and declared his ship independent of the

warring nations.

As he hoped, the holocaust was temporarily averted by the

more deadly threat of his allies from the starts; but could Perry

Rhodan keep the peace long enough to persuade the Arkonides

that mankind was fit to enter their galactic community?

The PERRY RHODAN series and characters were

created by Walter Ernsting and Karl-Herbert Scheer.

Series Editor & Translator:

Wendayne Ackerman

English Language Representative

of PERRY RHODAN:

Forrest J Ackerman

ENTERPRISE STARDUST

by K.H.Scheer

Introduction by Forrest J. Ackerman

AN ACE BOOK

ACE PUBLISHING CORPORATION

1120 Avenue of the Americas

New York, N.Y. 10036

ENTERPRISE STARDUST

Original German Title:

“Unternehmen STARDUST”

Printed in U.S.A

Introducing

PERRY RHODAN

AND HIS ELECTRIC PERSONALITY

Forrest J Ackerman

As Tom said to Jonathan, “The race belongs to the Swift.”

Or are you too young to remember Tom Swift? (In the Land of Wonders, his

Planet Stone.) And Roy Rockwood and his Clarke’s Tours of the solar system.

(Air Express to Venus-air?!–By Space Ship to Saturn.) The Carl H. Claudy

classics, including The Mystery Men of Mars. These boys’ sf books of a less

sophisticated generation never won any Hugos (and not just because they were

published prior to the establishment of the annual science fiction “Oscar” awards)

but they did generate a great deal of entertainment.

Then there was Gordon, who was flashy, and Rogers, who was always bucking

the baddies. You probably heard of Buck and Flash in the movie serial or comics

or TV re-vivals or camp posters.

Now comes, roaring into the 70’s–PERRY RHODAN … earth-tamer … planet

adventurer … star-seeker … Peacelord of the Universe!

America, for once has lagged behind–we are 8 years behind the Germans in

discovering the world’s greatest spaceman. In the pulp era of our past we have

had many great continuing characters: Doc Savage, the Shadow, Captain Future,

G-8, et al. Savage started in ’33 and ended in ’49 and is, 20 years after his

disappearance, enjoying a renaissance in paperback. But the 16 years of Doc

Savage’s exploits cannot possibly compare with such an impressive record as

Perry Rhodan’s because Doc, most of the time. appeared only monthly,

sometimes bimonthly, whereas Perry, since the beginning, has been published

weekly!

Ain’t that outasite? (I hope I’m hip to the mod slanguage because I’m so old

that I remember when people blew their noses instead of their minds.) Over 400

adventures of Perry Rhodan, Thora, Gucky (the mouse-beaver), Atlan and all the

characters you will come to know and who will grow on you–over 400 have

already been published abroad!

Every week in Germany a new Perry Rhodan plot appears and sells out an

edition of 130,000 copies (No American science fiction periodical equals that

record even on a monthly basis.) Germany–with a population of only one-third

that of the United States! If Germany had our population it would mean that

approximately 400,000 people would be reading Perry every seven days!

A second, reprint, edition of the earlier episodes now runs 50,000 copies a

week in Germany.

And the third time around on the republication of the earliest ones, they’re

printing 20,000 copies–to make an incredible total of 200,000 copies of Perry

Rhodan’s cosmic conquests being read each week! (By U.S. population

comparison, 600,000!)

Plus! Pocketbooks (wholly different adventures) … hardcovers (revised from

the magazines) … comics.

Perry Rhodan has appeared for three years in France, is now in Dutch!

Over 500 Perry Rhodan Clubs flourish in Germany, Switzerland and Austria,

complete with membership pins. Regional and national Perry Rhodan

Conventions are held annually!

The first Perry Rhodan film, S.O.S. FROM OUTER SPACE, has exploded on

the screens of Europe.

To satisfy the demand, a corps of half a dozen or more writers is kept busy

creating new plots from the master history–more complex than anything ever

dreamed of in the future histories of Asimov, Heinlein or Doc Smith–

masterminded by Walter Ernsting (Herr Science Fiction of Germany) and noted sf

author K.-H. Scheer.

In Germany, all serious sf buffs claim to hate Perry Rhodan, but somebody (in

unprecedented numbers) is certainly reading him. When I went to the Science

Fiction Film Festival in Trieste in 1965, I also took a trip to Frankfurt, Germany,

and when I got off the train at the station, at the depot magazine stand the first

thing I saw was an ordinary looking middle-aged businessman buying (you

telepathed it!) a copy of PERRY RHODAN!

The PERRY RHODAN series may never win a Hugo. It may be panned by

both professional critics and in the fan magazines, USA. But if Perry’s American

reception parallels that of the land of his origin, you are holding in your hands a

collector’s item that will be sought after by those who, like you, will be hooked

on Perry and reading him ten years from now. Which means, if we can get

production up to one a month, by 1979 about 130 Rhodan adventures will have

been published-and the Germans will be 800 adventures ahead of us! (This could

cause an increase in the USA in the studying of German.)

Can we ever catch up with Perry Rhodan? Well, there’s no time like the

present-and no place like this pocketbook–to start. Ahead lie innumerable

encounters with alien intelligences, robots, invisible men, monsters, survivors of

Atlantis, zombies, giants, micro-men-all part and parcel of the infinite panorama

of the most colossal space opera series ever conceived!

CHAPTER ONE

At the northern entrance to the center’s main underground building, the heavily

armed sentries saluted sloppily. Lieutenant General Lesley Pounder, commander

of the Nevada Fields Air Base and Chief of the Department of Space

Explorations, passed them by, satisfied. Under unusual circumstances like these,

he was not greatly concerning with being given an exact military salute. He was

interested only in seeing that his men were alert and on the job.

At precisely 1:15 A.M., according to plan, Pounder entered the main control

room in the center. With him were Colonel Maurice, chief of staff and F.

Lehmann, scientific supervisor of the project. Lehmann was known primarily for

his position as Director of the California Academy of Space Technology.

Pandemonium seemed master inside the center’s main building, which housed

the electronic “nervous system” of the spaceport; but this apparently senseless

commotion was, in fact, a series of last minute preparations for Zero Hour. The

general’s sudden appearance caused no interruption in the beehive activity of

checking, and double checking. The general had arrived; that was all there was to

it. General Pounder, square of body and mind, was well-known for his

uncompromising talent for getting things done his way. This was cause enough

for the admiration of his colleagues and the dismay of those in the Capitol in

Washington. Now he proceeded to the control room’s huge closed circuit TV

screen.

A view that had not been clearly discernible in the press room glistened here at

close range on the slightly convex glass of the tube.

Pounder leaned heavily forward with both hands on the back of the swivel chair,

motionless, staring intently at the screen. He remained like this for several

moments. Professor Lehmann nervously fingered his rimless spectacles. He was

boiling inside with impatience. Here the Big Boss was reinspecting all the

unimportant little details that had been checked out repeatedly before his arrival,

when there were far more urgent things to attend to. He shot imploring glances in

General Pounder’s direction.

Colonel Maurice shrugged his shoulders almost imperceptibly in a wait-and-

see gesture. Pounder was as well informed as any of the team of esteemed

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