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Novels
Though this collection primarily houses comic books, it also contains just under 40 novels. All of the novels in this collection are science fiction, with some being double sided. The novels in this collection also contain part of the Perry Rhodan series by a group of German science fiction authors, as well as books by Robert E. Howard, the creator of Conan.
Selections from the Collection
Spaceship of Ancestors by Call Number: PT2664 .A7 .R3813 1975Publication Date: 1975"For many millennia a gigantic spaceship has been drifting thru the cosmos, far from the heavily traveled routes of the universe. A world unto itself, moving on its uncharted path, past inhabited and uninhabited solar systems, dead planets, and worlds where life is but beginning. And its crew? Zombies in the thrall of robot masters, locked into a cosmic coffin, doomed to wander in the immensity of space for all eternity?
Not if Pucky has anything to say about it! and he does..."
Enterprise Stardust by Call Number: PT2680 .E33 U5813 1969Publication Date: 1969"Major Perry Rhodan, commander of the spaceship Stardust, found more than anyone had expected might exist on the moon-for he became the first an to make contact with another sentient race!
The Arkonides had come from a distant star, and the possessed a knowledge of science and philosophy that dwarfed mankind's knowledge.
But these enormously powerful alien beings refused to cooperate with the people of Earth...unless Perry Rhodan could pass the most difficult test any human being had ever faced..."
Menace of the Mutant Master by Call Number: PT2673 .A3654 O9413 1972Publication Date: 1972"The Venus adventure, fraught with prehistoric dangers in a Dawn World still trembling to the tread of the dinosaur-the Venus Adventure has been successfully concluded.
Once again, on Terra, the Peacelord of the Universe can turn his attention to the problems of the New Power.
But now, on Earth, a new crisis arises: from out of nowhere materializes an evil mastermind.
Monterny!
To Perry Rhodan as Moriarity to Sherlock Holmes, as Duquesne to Richard Seaton. A villainous figure, intent on undermining the progress of the New Power! A super-hypnotist who enslaves the minds and bodies of his own band of mutants and sets them against Perry and his futuremen in a war of wills that produces new thrills and chills for Rhodan and his readers."
Pigeons From Hell by Call Number: PS3515 .O842 P54 1976Publication Date: 1976"Warriors as great as Howard's most famous characters...inhabit the dark and fearsome abyss of the gods, the scythian world from which the pigeons from hell emerge to torment earthly man. Monsters and nightmares, dream snakes and hyenas, thrive in this fantasy worlds that happened yesterday-or even before the dawn of time."