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The Thrall of Hypno (Perry Rhodan, No. 20)

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Book 20 of this Space Opera is the finale of a trilogy of adventures with an Evil Mutant Master.

Monterny, the master of long distance hypnotism, makes a stand on Mars with the aid of his last mind controlled Mutant. This monster of a man, by the name of Ivan Ivanovich Goratschin, has two heads - and the power to make anything with either calcium or carbon in it to detonate explosively. Rhodan's Mutant Corps eventually makes Ivan one of their own, and Monterny, the evil hypnotist, escapes to the asteroid belt. I won't ruin the end of this trilogy except by saying that Monterny is defeated.

A new series of stories begins with number 22 - "The Cosmic Decoy".

I've never been this impressed by a series. I'm reminded of old cliffhanger serials like "Buck Rodgers" or "Flash Gordon" when reading these marvelous books. This series is still being published in Germany and is now well over 2,000 volumes. It's too bad American publishers stopped after only about 120 books. I had to learn to speak, read, and write German in order to continue reading Perry Rhodan.

This book contains another editorial, another science fiction movie section, and another letters column. There are also extra stories - one continuing adventure, similar to a serial, and some "Shock Shorts" - continuing a series of SF short stories at the end of each book. Although these stories have nothing to do with Perry Rhodan, they are worth looking at. It's well worth reading the entire Rhodan series.