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Maddrax is a German science fiction series. It started in 2000 and is published by Bastei-Lübbe (Romantruhe) and Zaubermond. Maddrax is an end-of-the-world-scenario and has some similarities to Planet of the Apes or the DC storylines Kamandi and Warlord. Plot In 2012 a comet named ‘Christopher-Floyd’ threatens the Earth. The last chance to prevent an apocalyptic impact is to launch nuclear missiles from the ISS. US Air Force Commander Matthew ‘Matt’ Drax leads a group of three jets on a reporting mission about the result of the nuclear strike. The countermeasures fail and Christopher Floyd hits the Earth. Luckily Commander Drax's Jet is taken out of time before the energy of the impact can kill him. Suddenly he finds himself crash-landed in an ice landscape, attacked by human-sized two-legged rats (Taratzen) and rescued by a Stone Age tribe. Bit by bit Drax (who is called Maddrax by the natives) finds out, he has been thrown more than five centuries into the future. Christopher-Floyd was not just a comet, but also a kind of space-arc, which resulted in increased evolution and the appearance of completely new life forms on Earth. On the search for other survivors from his mission Maddrax finds the last bits of humanity dumbed by the rays Christopher-Floyd has emitted. Remaining spots of civilization (former government shelters or underground hideouts) are tainted and show a perverted version of their today appearance. On his voyages on Earth and later the Solar System, Maddrax finds out that Christopher-Floyd is only a small part of a huge eternal interstellar conflict and because of its landing on Earth, the whole planet nears complete destruction. Publication Maddrax is published biweekly in pulp booklet format by Bastei-Lübbe. The pulps are also available in the electronic EPUB format, without DRM (beginning issue 250). The comic versions were dropped after only three issues and were based on issues 1, 2 and 4. Some of the stories have been produced as audiobooks. Zaubermond publishes hardcover books that are side stories to the main series. Bastei-Lubbe published the first 36 issues in 7 paperback volumes. Romantruhe continued the paperback publication of the series issues, 3 per volume, starting with volume 8 which contained issues 37-39. English Release Light Novel publisher J-Novel Club began publishing the Maddrax series in English starting in July 2021. Due to licensing restrictions, the English release begins with German Episode 500. To help guide new readers, an extensive series and world history is provided as a bonus in the first English ebook. Each J-Novel Club release contains four German episodes and features a new cover by original series artist Néstor Taylor and can be read in weekly parts at the J-Novel Club website in advance of retail release. Roleplaying In 2009 the German publisher Bastei Lübbe gave the readers of the dime novel series Maddrax a roleplaying game. On the cover you see the protagonist Matthew Drax as the death dealer. Persons in the Maddrax World Aruula Aruula is a highly attractive young woman. She grew up on islands (Königreich der dreizehn Inseln) that remain from today's Denmark. At a very young age, she is a victim of a raid from a strange tribe to her people. Aruula from now on grews up with these Stone Age men. She is meant to become the wife of the chieftain's son but refuses to accept his proposals. Aruula is a very skilled huntress and swordswoman. When the tribe crosses the Alps on the search for the warm south-lands, they find a strange injured man in a strange machine, Matt Drax. They make him their god Maddrax and seek his protection on the dangerous voyage. Aruula, knowing that Maddrax is no supernatural being, protects and guides him from the very first day. She leaves the tribe to follow Maddrax on his voyages and becomes his companion. Aruula is the daughter of her home-islands ruling queen and thatfor the rightful heiress to the throne. When their travels bring her and Maddrax back to Aruulas home, she refuses to stay and starting her reign. Aruula by mistake kills Maddrax's little daughter, Ann Drax. Later an intelligent plant with the name GRÜN (green) possesses Aruula, she becomes pregnant and gives birth to a son that has (unknown to Maddrax) three parents: Maddrax, GRÜN and Aruula. She names the boy Matjunis (can be translated as young Matt or Matt's youngster). The boy later takes the name Daa’tan and becomes a dangerous villain, finally forcing Maddrax to kill him. Afterward, Aruula and Maddrax break up and she starts her own adventures. Aruula has a very strong personality and is highly jealous. Aruula refuses to wear any clothing – except boots, a G-string and henna-tattoos, no matter whether weather or occasion would advise it. This fact is a recurring motif of the title pictures of the Maddrax pulps. Aruula has some uncommon abilities, such as telepathy or to decide to become pregnant or not after sex by pure will. Christopher-Floyd Christopher-Floyd (CS) at first is just a comet, named after the people who discovered it in the sky. The impact of CS on Earth is fatal for much of the planet's life, changing everything for the survivors. The stories tell about the typical apocalyptic scenarios: the shockwave of the impact, destroying everything in the air and on the planet's surface, tsunamis, magnetic and geographic north- and south-pole change their places, whole lands disappear in the sea and former sea ground rises above the waves, ‘nuclear winter’, etc. In the Maddrax-World regions and settlements have new names, mostly degenerated versions of the old ones, f. e. Meereka for northern America. After the impact the northern America ceases to exist. The remains of the continent have a new climate and another geographical and geological appearance. Additionally to the impact itself CS causes even graver problems for life on Earth. CS is not just a comet, but an alien entity called a Wandler (can be translated as changer but as well as traveler). CS hosts a race of servants, the Daa’muren. The start to transform the newly conquered world, using radiation coming from CS. Although the radiation has several different effects (from disturbing the brain function to forced evolution) the stories just speak about the ‘CS-Strahlung’. When Maddrax arrives in the future, the use of CS-Strahlung has almost ended. Earth has a high number of new or changed plants and animals. Humans at the surface have become barbarians or worse: creatures breed by the Daa’muren to make use of. Humans that lived in underground shelters kept their intelligence and most time their technical abilities but the radiation influenced them also in the deep. Although they still maintain their old government system cruel behavior and intentions made the societies perverted versions of what they once where. Most of the groups try to conquer each other. Maddrax is able to form an alliance and to attack CS and the Daa’muren. The strike .... Discover the Ian Rolf Hill popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Ian Rolf Hill books.