Perry Rhodan retrospective

[Will Dockery]

I'm enjoying this blog, which is giving a blow-by-blow retrospective of Perry Rhodan in America, as translated and published by Ace Books in the 1970s.

http://perryrhodanreadingproject.blogspot.com/2011/02/and-so-it-begins.html

Here's some of my Perry Rhodan story...

If you have, I think, #32 of the Ace translations, you'll see an excerpt from a letter I wrote to the Ackermans, back when I was still known as "William Dockery", mostly saying that after a certain issue I was "Hooked for life!", and with various long gaps apparently I am, as I still get really interested at times in the hopeless task of getting the entire epic story. I had another couple of blurbs from my letters published in later issues, before becoming... unhooked... for a while. Becoming a teenager in the early 1970s was, after all kind of a full-time task and some things had to be put aside. Anyway, thanks for bringing back some very vivid memories of some really interesting characters and concepts.