Enterprise Stardust by Karl-Herbert Scheer

The first billion of worldwide sales was celebrated in 1986. Having sold approximately two billion copies (in novella format) worldwide alone, (including over one billion in Germany), it is the most successful science fiction book series ever written. The science fiction novel series which has been published each week since Septemin the ‘Romanhefte‘ format (digest-sized booklets, usually containing 66 pages, the German equivalent of the now-defunct American pulp magazine) by Pabel-Moewig Verlag, a subsidiary of Bauer Media Group.Īs of March 2018, almost 2950 booklet novels of the original series plus 850 spinoff novels of the sister series Atlan plus over 400 paperbacks and 200 hardcovers have been published, totaling over 300,000 pages.

Perry Rhodan is a weekly German science fiction pulp magazine series that has run uninterrupted since 1961. The English editions, anyways.Īnd if you are like me you would have asked yourself: what is this Perry Rhodan thing? And you probably would have been warned away from it as I was many times. Either way you are bound to have come across a paperback edition or two of the Perry Rhodan books. Sometimes in drug stores or supermarkets or maybe in second-hand book stores. If you’re anything like me then you would have spent many hours scouring paperback aisles or racks looking for science fiction paperbacks. If you are a fan of science fiction and if, as I do, you have a particular love for space opera, then you probably have come across the name Perry Rhodan.

Enterprise Stardust by Karl-Herbert Scheer