BETWEEN DIMENSIONS! DIMENSION 4...DIMENSION 5... AND SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN–SEMISPACE!The unknown realm of the halfplane must be penetrated if the planet Wanderer is to be reached in time. For it is the year 2042, the critical date when Perry Rhodan and Reginald Bell must have a biological booster from the physiotron on the artificial world: without the cell shower renewal they will degenerate into old age!  The venture between the dimensions turns them temporarily into giants who cause devastating storms as they cross an entire ocean with one step!  But even giants can be felled (as David demonstrated to Goliath) and our intrepid Terranians discover that—DEATH WAITS IN SEMISPACE!

CRITICAL SPOT: HeperaisTwo members of the Mutant corps have broken their loyalty to Perry Rhodan and now he must risk detection by going in person to the trouble area of Heperais. Before his mission is through, there is excitement unlimited in this, the first adventure of the interstellar colonists. And the Robot Regent of Arkon learns to its dismay that the long-thought-dead Administrator of an Earth destroyed... still lives! And by a chance of cosmic proportions, Talamon the Mounder is shocked when he has an insight that leads him to realise that—  THE DEAD LIVE!

PERRY RHODAN gives a command!Maj. Clyde Ostal, an experienced officer of the Solar Security Service, is to take Responsibility for the armed spacer Tigris. His mission, together with 31 picked men: to leave Earth in the ship in a deliberate attempt to learn whether the Robot Regent of Arkon can detect the frequencies of structural compensators and thereby determine the position of spaceships going through hypertransition.  In 2042 the Positronicon that rules the Arkonide Empire does not yet know the location of Earth—and Perry Rhodan wants to keep it that way. Hence, Maj. Ostal's important mission.  You're in for a wild time when—  THE TIGRIS LEAPS!

THOMAS CARDIF declared, "I want the Flaming Sword back, priest! With the help of Baalol, I want to wield it so mightily against the Solar Imperium that it will be turned into nothing but raving madmen!"Having been released from his synthetic personality, Cardif’s real self was revealing the heritage of his genius father. He had almost been equal to Rhodan in terms of planning and strategy. More than once he had thrown the Solar Imperium into its gravest crisis. Almost always his shrewd manipulations had served to block Rhodan’s countermeasures.  Now, with frantic Arkonidean passion, he was determined to wreck the worlds of his father’s domain, clean across the solar system from molten Mercury past the great gas planets clear out to the frozen wastes of the transPlutonian planet.  The machinery for Rhodan’s destruction was–  THE LEPSO BLOCKADE!

ONE DANGEROUS MISSION has been accomplished by Terranian undercover agents John Marshall & Laury Marten of the Mutant Corps: they have secured a small sample of the Aras’ guarded serum which prolongs life. But what good is the miracle substance if the mutants can’t remove it from the planet Tolimon?Enter: Inspector Tristol from Arkon. And a personal servant who’s the expectorating image of a world-known mouse-beaver with telekinetic and other extrasensory powers. But the fickle finger of Fate throws a great big 8-ball into the equation when the Real Inspector from Arkon meets up with—  THE PSEUDO ONE!

ALL GALACTIC INTELLIGENCESAre endangered by the invisible alien attackers, the Unseen. A defence against this incomprehensible & diabolical enemy must be found if, planet by planet, the inhabitants of uncounted worlds are not inexplicably to disappear from the face of space like the pitiful population of ghost world Mirsal 3.  What, indeed, happened to the Mirsalese people? No one knows the answer yet to the wholesale vanishment of the populace of Mirsal 3 but Mirsal 2 now takes stage front & centre as the most likely spot to confront & apprehend the uncanny opponent.  A trio of Terranians volunteer to risk their all to save a doomed world in— RETURN FROM THE VOID!

Rhodan had known it...They wanted to conquer the Arkonide realm and then bring all the intelligent races of the galaxy under their rule. And they would succeed unless someone took care at the right time that their advance was stopped.  That's what Perry's doing there--UNDER THE STARS OF DRUUFON!

EDITORIAL REVIEW:To forget... to lose all memory, all knowledge of your past...The alien Springers fear such a fate more than loss of life–and so Perry Rhodan and the mutant corps have a devastating weapon when they unleash the Plague of Lethe in the battle to force the Springers and Mounders to set free the enslaved planet Goszul.  But can it be done–without infecting the entire galaxy?This is the stirring story of–  THE PLAGUE OF OBLIVION!

EDITORIAL REVIEW:The alien Mind Snatchers were determined to wipe out all traces of intelligent life anywhere in the far reaches of the cosmos. Their reasons were not political or economic—they simply could not tolerate the presence of intelligences rivaling their own.  With their ability to take over human bodies, move among the people of Earth and ferret out their military and scientific secrets, the Mind Snatchers seemed invincible. Against this fiendish onslaught Perry Rhodan led his telepathically trained Mutant Corps, and mankind’s fate hung in the balance vs this... INVASION FROM SPACE!

KHREST had to close his eyes for a moment.  His worst fears were surpassed by the evidence before his eyes. The three aliens ran around the disk in a high state of agitation in an obvious attempt to find a way of gaining access through the protective shield of the little spacecraft. One of their visible efforts was a huge hole they had burned out of the ground with their thermobeamers. Their attempt to get to the jet from underneath had failed but this did not dampen their frantic activities. They kept furiously attacking the invisible screen and tried every imaginable experiment to accomplish their purpose.For awhile Khrest watched them motionlessly. Then he drew his weapon. It was an automatic reflex, triggered by determination to save the space-jet at all costs. He drew a bead on the alien trespassers.Don't be a fool! His logic asserted itself. You'll lose the ship as well as your life!The action continues with the Peacelord, Perry Rhodan, with the next action-packed story of a—FRIEND TO MANKIND

EDITORIAL REVIEW:The Springers are gathering a force of 800 ships under Cekztel commanded by Topthor to destroy the Earth.The Topides reinforce Betelgeuse with 400 ships under Al-Khor and move off to the 3rd planet to mislead the Springers.  The Titan and the two heavy cruisers make multiple appearances to reinforce the deception that Betelgeuse is SOL.  Perry realizes that this is not enough and stages the destruction of the Titan and himself.And so in this final Adventure of the First Cycle read how–THE EARTH DIES!

EDITORIAL REVIEW:On a lonely moon in deepest space a scout for Perry Rhodan’s fleet encounters a strange, sentient orb. As a Springer attack force approaches the planet Goszul, the orbit reveals its awesome power... but what are its intentions?Meanwhile on Goszul, the Springers seem to have been vanquished by the Plague of Oblivion unleashed by Rhodan and his mutants. But the Springers have one devastating card left to play–hidden deep in the mountains, their mightiest battleship is nearing completion...This is the stirring story of–  A WORLD GONE MAD!

SNAKE ATTACK!  THE GREATEST Kidnap Caper of All Time!  10,000 Terrans kidnapped!  Is Akon behind it?  This is a challenge for Division 3 and once again the agents of the Secret Organization are called into action, action calling for the greatest diplomacy, a mantle of invisibility and a devil-may-care approach to danger.  For, make no mistake about it, danger abides on every side on the planet Passa, scene of mysterious happenings.  A strange plan is required when the intrepid Terrans meet–THE IDOL OF PASSA!

EDITORIAL REVIEW:Perilous dawn... 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 cooperate with the people of Earth - unless Perry Rhodan could pass the most difficult test any human being had ever faced...  ENTERPRISE STARDUST!

EXISTENCE QUESTIONABLE!That is the question facing the 8000 exiles from Earth, banished to Grautier, 7th planet of the Myrtha system, lying far off the routes of the interstellar space lanes. For they have learned, these transplaneted Terrestrials, that they are not alone on their grave new world—in the mountains exists a semi-intelligent race of monkeys, the Mungos, and in the jungles of the lowland live strange blue dwarfs who are endowed with amazing paramechanical and parapsychological powers.  But that's not all.  There are also intelligent beings inhabiting the 12th planet of the system—the Whistlers—and their recent invasion of Grautier has made the continued existence of the colonists quite questionable.  To protect themselves against a potential second invasion, A group of Grautierians 'reciprocate' the visit of the Whistlers, appearing on their planet in the guise of—AMBASSADORS FROM AURIGEL!