Lynn wrote:

"Pucky's Greatest Hour (Perry Rhodan #81)" by Kurt Brand
https://www.amazon.com/Puckys-Greatest-Hour-Perry-Rhodan/dp/4416602650/

BTW, this is actually book number 89 of the original German pamphlets
written in 1963. There is a very good explanation of the plot in German
on the Perrypedia German website of all of the PR books. There is
automatic Google translation available for English, Spanish, Dutch,
Japanese, French, and Portuguese.
https://www.perrypedia.de/wiki/Guckys_gro%C3%9Fe_Stunde
There is alternate synopsis site at:
https://www.perryrhodan.us/summaries/89#

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The combined 15,000+ space ships of the Terrans, Arkonides, and
Springers have defeated the Druufs at great cost. Atlan pulls the
Arkonide space ships out of the Solar System but the Springers refuse to leave and demand monopolistic trade right to the Solar System. And
Thomas Cardif, Perry and Thora's traitor son, defects to the Springers.

My PR archive lacks a review for this installment. So it will get
another hearing in both English and German. The inside cover of the
Moewig fetes four Hugo winners. If memory serves, USA Hugo authorities
used emotional justifications to ban Germans.
The Ace audiobook accompanied me on tonight's dog walk. PR89's
politics and mass media manipulations made me think of logos and pathos.
Arkons are associated with logos, in my opinion, as is Perry Rhodan.
Yet despite his mother and father's predisposition toward logos, the
hatred and arrogance of pathos counterintuitively drives Thomas Cardif's behaviour.
More will be added after the audiobooks are fully heard.

Adendum:

My initial intention was to listen to only one book. But it became a
binge. Before you know it, one audiobook automatically led to another
and 95 A SKY WITHOUT STARS was heard.
In it Perry poses penetrating questions, parried away by the IT collective. About a hundred installments later, 184 PUCKY AND THE BLUE
GUARD reveals answers. It postulates a philosophical pendulum to swing
the cosmos between matter and energy extremes.

Not so mod physics peddles the proposition of the comical Copenhagen
chimera - one beast with two faces. Observers see either energy or
matter depending upon how they look at it. Meanwhile, more modern
physics uses Bohmian Mechanics to see the situation as matter guided
by energy.
Then there's James Tour's proposition of energetic, newly made
memory metamorphosing into matter during the sleep cycle. Original
synaptic energy becomes long term memory by way of proteins.
Yet, proteins are very short lived, on the order of hours. The
interesting open question is: how do you remember childhood events
when the storage medium expires within hours?

# # #

My fat tire bicycle's prepped for Winter spins up the mountain - studded
snow tires topped off with a 12 V battery out of an uninterruptible
power supply lashed to my pannier rack in a holder. It energizes a
motorcycle lamp out front and heaters under grips beneath handle bar
covers. My previously triple gloved hands now remain toasty even when
bare naked. For the time being, my heated socks remain energized by
their own independent small battery.

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