#her Mech is called the Jabberwock

[phosphorescence7991]

So I had an idea to encorage myself with this “practice robot stuff” thing to put some work into a design idea I had but hadn’t  done... well. See I had an idea for a lacer PC I named Chesire and I had a cool idea to make her robotic limbs look like they were striped but well, as established I wasn’t confident with robot stuff so I just kinda left them in the concept doodle phase (whcich is what the full body image is)

AND OH BOY DID I NOT EXPECT THEM TO COME OUT AS GOOD AS THIS Please do not except these to keep being this good I don't know how I managed that XD [ID: Digital art of a robotic arm (from below the elbow) and leg. The leg is shown from the front and the side. the main bodies of both limbs are long, thin and made of layered purple and black shiny metal. There are a series of pink metalic rings, broken in the centre with pointed ends, levitating around the limbs, emulating stripes, the blue energy running inside them, seeming to keep them floating. The hand has long fingers with wide tips and long claws, with patches of pink metal on the palm and finger tips, emulating a cats foot beans. The leg is digitigrade, the foot is geometric and has 3, clawed toes in the same pink as the hands palms. Below these is A digital art image of an excited woman standing blow-legged and waving. She has robotic arms a legs, a much more simplistic version of the perviously shown images. She also has a matching tail. She is white and has thick ringleted hair in pinks and purples, tied into a large high ponytail. Her eyes are fully pink and glowing with black slited pupils. She is grinning with sharp gagged teeth. She is wearing shiney black throusers and a tailed waistcout with a high black collar. half the waitcoat is a gree checkered pattern, the other half a purple and red diamond pattern. There is an image of a card spade on the center with each hald coloured with the same patterns at the reast of the waistcoat, but swapped sides. next to her is tart of the same woman but with normal eyes (blue) no robotic limbs and in a very different style. She has short, straight, blonde hair brushed back against her head. She is wearing a pale blue and while sci-fi styled geometric suit, with shiney black shoes.]

[sdr2lovemail]

You die and it's sad (ft. Chiaki Nanami)

Let's start this blog off with some good ole angst.

⚔Mod Peko

You die and it's sad (ft. Chiaki Nanami)

(Spoilers for lots of stuff in the game)

TW: self inflicted death by giant robot eagle

Chiaki had grown attached to you rather quickly, knowing each other outside of the simulation and even dating before the tragedy. While Chiaki knew this was all fake she still wanted to keep you safe. She knew she couldn't stand to see your corpse even if it's not really happening.

As the killing game progressed, tensions were rising. Your classmates were dropping like flies and there was nothing you could do to stop it. Motive after motive, murder after murder, it was all becoming too much for you to handle. You tried to keep going. You had to for your classmates, dead and living, but most of all for Chiaki. She had tried her best to keep your spirits up. She let you sleep in her cottage, played games with you, let you vent to her. But this killing game had sent you to the edge.

The fourth island hadn’t been unlocked yet and the monobeast still resided at the front of the bridge. An easy way to go. You had brought a stick from Jabberwock park with you, standing in front of the giant mechanical monster; you prepared for your demise.

Noticing that she hadn’t seen you since breakfast, Chiaki set off to look for you. You looked so shaken and you hadn’t eaten anything. She first stopped by the market to get some snacks and drinks from the vending machine. Maybe the two of you could have a nice gaming date to calm your nerves. Chiaki had stopped Sonia to ask if she had seen you.

“Ah Chiaki! Yes, I have seen them. They were walking towards the fourth island entrance. They had seemed so sad. I hope they are doing alright.” Chiaki took a minute to think about the princess’ words. “The fourth island entrance….but it hasn’t been unlocked.” But then it hit her. The monobeast was still at the bridge. The ultimate gamer quickly turned from Sonia and was booking it towards the fourth island. Concerned and worried, Sonia started running after her.

Chiaki was never good at running. Doubled over with her hands on her knees, she called out to you. “Hey, wait-” Yet her sentence was cut short as you struck the monobeast with your stick. The eagle mech let out a screech, its eyes glowing red. Huge guns protruded out the mech all aimed for you. Chiaki and Sonia didn’t even have time to call out your name before the deafening sound of gunfire rang.

Once the smoke had cleared all that was left was your bullet hole ridden body. Sonia let out a scream, though Chiaki couldn’t hear it that well. Not with the ringing still in her ear. Alarmed by the gunshots and Sonia's screams the rest of your classmates had run over to see what happened. Various screams echoed through the air.

“UPUPUPUPUPU! TALK ABOUT EXTREME! My monobeast did a great job taking care of that dirty rule breaker!” Has someone yelled back at Monokuma? Chiaki couldn't tell, she was too fixated on your corpse. Hajime had tried to get her attention but she wasn’t responding. It was a depressing parallel of when they had first met. Back before the killing game started. Hajime set a hand on Chiaki’s shoulder in an effort to be comforting, only for it to be pushed off by her. Chiaki had sunk down to her knees with her head in her hands. Still too much in shock, she couldn’t even cry. She should’ve been there earlier. She should’ve just blown her cover if it meant you would still be alive.

[josephsaturn]

Danganronpa 2: Prologue & Trial 1 thoughts!

Okay… so…

I was originally gonna do this “trial thoughts” idea for sdr2…

But I got kinda lazyyyy

(Also you can’t really have a trial thoughts without…y’know, a trial to think about)

Either way, I literally just completed sdr2, I have many, MANY thoughts…

So imma write them down:

Wait

That voice…

Rat Man?!

What’s he doing here???

Everyone else?

What’s with all the computers n stuff

Who’s this dude?

Nice eye designs tho

Didn’t I already learn this from dr1?

Hajime hinata, hm?

Who names their kid “future”?

Actually…it’s better than some names out there

Wha?

Scawwy……

A…door?

Who are all you people?????

Togami?!

What’s he doing here?!

And who are you people?!

The door won’t open?! Why???

Who’s that?

Behind the podium?

What.

Who’re you?

A stuffed animal

aKa: UsAmI

Ngl she is kinda cute.

Teacher?

Chihuahua?

I can hear the concern in her voice

whAT???

BAHAHAHA

an ISLAND?

That is as “non-answer” as you can get

Poor usami…

Please Rat-Man don’t be THAT self-aware

Oh his name is Nagito? Huh.

Still calling him Rat-Man

Even the controls are self-aware!

How is that tv even working?

Yea how IS Rat Man so calm

Nice music tho

Ultimate Lucky Student?

How original

Oh god he got them self esteem issues

So that’s how we’re introducing e-handbooks huh

Oh that’s her theme!

Sounds cool

He’s kinda like Makoto

Oh we walkin?

BAHAHAHAHA

he looks so jankyyy

Jabberwock, huh?

That’s a very large statue

And next to it is a very large man

Oh its Togami…

Hnnngh……

When did he get so big, anyway??

Last I saw he was rail-thin

At least I got a hope fragment out of it

Why is hajime so lanky?

A ranch? How cute!

Moo-cow?

HUH???????

Ok I’ve seen crazy stuff but that’s just ridiculous

A kid?

Hiyoko?

She looks cute!

Oh.

Good on her

She’s kinda mean but seems mostly harmless

Oh I didn’t even see her there

Hm…

Why r YOU expositing to me, komaeda?

Don’t ya think Akane might wanna tell me about herself?

She just don’t care

Why is Komaeda’s sprite so tall?

Don’t tell me hajime’s the same height as Makoto…

Oh great it’s the token bastard…

I could punt him

How mean…

This island is free of danger you ignoramus

Ngl she looks rad(ly cute)

LET HERRR TELL ME KOMAEDA

and I’m supposed to care…why?

Oh dang he’s big

What a cutesy name tho

“Round Cat”

Hajime what are you implying by “loud body”

Oh does he know Leon then?

UMM

WHAT IS THAT

GOOD SIR PUT THAT AWAY

she looks kinda like a hardass

She’s pretty in like a mysterious way

Oh is she gonna be the Celeste?

They sure are intense

The…more you know?

Just walk away, hajime

Gamer girl real??

7th island?

I can already tell that guy’s trouble…

Hmm

ok

Ok cool but why nevermind?

Oh SHE’S the Celeste

Ok cool

What.

A freak?

W H A T

good SIR.

Dude please

A market?

I did not bully her, KOMAEDA

oh she’s the Toko (pre-UDG)

I AM NOT BULLYING HER

she looks cool

I like her, she’s so high energy!

Good hearing

An airport, huh?

Aww, no engines

Soda?

He seems nice

Huh…

Gundham? Like the mechs?

I took care of 3 dogs and two cats!

How mean..

Ice?

Breeder?

Oh we’re at the beach

Why didn’t you finish that story, Togami?

U hiding something, Togami?

Aww, how cute!

Aww…I would’ve taken one…

SWIMMING?! Cool!

Why is Nekomaru wearing a Speedo?

Hanamura’s really going there huh.

Yay! Summer fun!

What.

No

Nonononononononono

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO

WHYYY

I JUST WANNA HAVE SUMMER FUNNNN

FUCK YOUUU

UGHH

not Usami!

She does look weird

Monobeasts? What?

Oh an actual opening

Nice intro

[danganronpasurvivoraskblog]

You have a lot to explain, Shuichi.

NOTE: Spoilers for the entirety of V3.

Y-Yeah...no kidding...

Take your time. We’re not in any rush...

Th-Thank you...

It all started when me...A normal high school student, woke up in a place called the Ultimate Academy for Gifted Juveniles. I was trapped with 15 other students, including...

A girl named Kaede Akamatsu. The person in particular that I formed a pretty special bond with.

When we tried to get a handle on the situation, our group was abruptly accompanied by a team of bear robots, known as Monokubs who exposed us to a "Flashback Light," which kind of work like neuralysers.  When we woke up again, we remembered having ultimate talents. For example, I was the Ultimate Detective and Kaede was the Ultimate Pianist. But then...

Monokuma, this robot bear and the Monokubs father, arrived and informed us that the only way to escape the academy is to successfully murder another student and not be voted as the culprit at the resulting class trial. Initially, we were obviously unwilling to take part in this game, until a new rule was imposed If nobody is killed within two days, Monokuma will prematurely end the game by killing all of the students.

Makoto: Huh!? That’s insane! Isn’t that just a life or death situation?

Hajime: Wouldn’t put it past Monokuma...I mean, it’s not too different from the funhouse, right?

Shuichi: Can I continue?

Hajime: Sure.

After finding a hidden card-locked door in the academies library, I reasoned that there must have been a mastermind controlling Monokuma, and Kaede worked with me to set a trap to expose the mastermind just prior to the time limit. However...

When our trap was sprung, we headed down to the library and found the dead body of Rantaro Amami, an amnesiac who couldn’t remember his own talent by this point. 

It turns out that without telling me, concerned that there wouldn’t be enough time to stop the mastermind, Kaede had secretly altered the trap to kill the person it caught. Rantaro dying wasn’t part of her plan, and during the following class trial, Kaede attempted to uncover the mastermind but failed. After encouraging me to call her out, she confessed to her crime, encouraged me to keep going and survive with everyone and...

She was...executed...

Kuripa: I...I’m so sorry...

Shuichi: Don’t worry...It’s painful to remember but...she would want me to move on...

Although I was definitely brokenhearted at Kaede's death, I soon developed a lifelong friendship with Kaito Momota, the Ultimate Astronaut, as well as Maki Harukawa, the Ultimate Assassin, who hid her true self under the guise of the Ultimate Child Caregiver before she opened up to us...I wish I could say we lived in relative harmony but...that wasn’t the case...

Several more murders took place and several more of my “friends” were executed, but I was able to solve all of the mysteries that the class trials threw at me...but that’s where “he” always came into play...

Hajime: Who’s...”he?”

One of the students alongside me in the predicament was this short boy with purple hair named Kokichi Ouma, who’s ultimate talent was apparently being the “Ultimate Supreme Leader” of a secret evil organisation that had over 10,000 members...He constantly tried to vex me and the others investigations,  continuously lying and obscuring the truth from us for his own entertainment...

Hajime: Why does that sound...familiar?

Makoto: Funny, I was just about to say that...

Kuripa: Guys, let him talk.

When about only half of us remained, we found additional Flashback Lights and gradually remembered that we were students of the reopened Hope's Peak Academy, who were sent into space in the hopes of preserving humanity after meteors began to fall upon the Earth and a deadly epidemic had ravaged the remainder of the population. 

Kokichi revealed to us that the ship had been hijacked and returned to earth by people who were against the project, and that the world itself had been destroyed by the meteors. He also revealed to us that he was the mastermind behind the killing game controlling Monokuma, and he proved it by summoning the Exisal robots that had been used by the Monokubs to keep us in check up until now.

Kaito tried to fight back against him, but he ended up getting kidnapped.

When this happened, me, Maki, and the other students staged a rescue mission with the aim of saving Kaito and stopping the game, but after we used hacking weapons created by one of our deceased friends, Miu Iruma, an inventor, we broke into the Exisal hangar where Kokichi was keeping Kaito...But when we broke in...

We were greeted with a corpse, crushed underneath a hydraulic press. The trial ensued and it became hard to not only figure out the culprit, but also we didn’t know the victim...

Further complicating the mystery was the sudden arrival of a massive Exisal mech during the trial, whose unseen pilot sounded like and identified himself as Kokichi but bore the idiosyncrasies of both Kokichi and Kaito. During the ensuing trial, it became clear that Kokichi was not the mastermind and only claimed as such to stop the killing game. Kokichi convinced Kaito to kill him and then pretend to be him in the hopes of creating a crime Monokuma could not solve and defeat the game. His identity exposed, Kaito emerged from the Exisal and urged us survivors to uncover the truth before being executed.

Kuripa: You mean that this Kokichi guy was able to beat Monokuma at his own game by creating a mystery so impossible that even HE couldn’t solve it!? That’s...jeez, that’s actually pretty impressive.

Hajime: An impossible mystery? Yeah, this definitely sounds familiar...

Unwilling to continue the game, my friend Keebo, using his powers as the Ultimate Robot, decided to destroy the school, which would kill the rest of us with it. He gave us until dawn to find the mastermind, or else we’d all die from the lack of oxygen on the planet. It was me, Maki, and two other people, Ultimate Magician, Himiko Yumeno, and Ultimate Cosplayer, Tsumugi Shirogane. We investigated the school and discovered evidence that contradicted our memories, as well as inconsistencies in Rantaro's crime scene. We further learnt that Rantaro was the "Ultimate Survivor", having taken part in a previous killing game. To break up Keebo and the now revived Monokubs fight, I called a final class trial to re-try Rantaro's case.

At the trial, I found the mastermind. Tsumugi Shirogane was the real villain we’d been looking for the whole time, and she was the one who killed Rantaro and framed Kaede for the crime. Tsumugi confessed and revealed, when we asked about our memories, that our memories, talents, relationships, and personalities were entirely fake, the Flashback Light was a brainwashing device and the destroyed world was nothing more than a sound stage. 

All of the events that we had found out about: The tragedy, the killing game at the original Hope’s Peak Academy, the Jabberwock Island incident, the remnants of despair, the final killing game and everything else...never existed. All of it took place in a fictional world known as Danganronpa. The disgusting truth was that Danganronpa was an anime that got so popular, that it was able to become a long running franchise, and by the time our killing game rolled around, it had become so famous that real people had begun to be used as part of the killing game.

Hajime: That’s completely insane...! How many incarnations did the killing game get?

Shuichi: Our version of the killing game was...Danganronpa 53...

Kuripa: 53!? That fucked up show reached 53 seasons!? How could something that sick and twisted reach so many seasons!?

Shuichi: Because people love and enjoyed watching shows like that, and it gave us hope in even the most trying times. In fact, we were no different...

Makoto: What do you mean?

All of the “Ultimates” except for Keebo, were ordinary individuals who willingly had our the memories of our previous, normal lives permanently erased in exchange for a talent and a fake background. Many of us, including Kaede, Kaito and even myself, were revealed to have joined purely for fame, fortune, or the thrill of the game, and we were far less trusting and altruistic than our killing game selves.

Makoto: You said Keebo wasn’t the same. Why’s that?

Keebo was...part of the equipment crew, and he didn’t even realize it...

He was a walking camera for the viewers, and possessed an antenna disguised as part of his hair, that let him hear the audience's opinions on the show. They encouraged him to battle Tsumugi's despair with hope. Tsumugi offered us a  choice: "hope", where she is executed but we must choose two of their own to take part in the next killing game filling the same role as Rantaro, who was a survivor of the 52nd season, or "despair", where K1-B0 will be executed and the game will continue.

Hajime: I suddenly feel really self-conscious about my hair...

Makoto: I was just about to say that...

Shuichi: Yeah, I know, right?

Kuripa: Funny how this weird hair spike seems to run in the family.

Makoto: We’re...not a family...

Hajime: That’s not important right now. What...what did you choose...

Shuichi: That’s the thing...

Realizing either choice would still continue the killing game, I encouraged the others to not vote, meaning everyone would be executed but the killing game would also end. I was able to convince Maki, Himiko and Keebo, but then due to their desperation of never letting the slaughter and despair, their own entertainment, stop, the viewers hacked Keebo and forced him to serve only as a conduit for viewer votes.

But I wasn’t about to let that happen. I took advantage of the situation and used this to make an impassioned plea directly to the viewers to get them to stop watching. At the vote, all parties abstained, including Tsumugi and Keebo. Tsumugi was willing to sacrifice herself to continue Danganronpa and Keebo had also refused, indicating the audience has given up on Danganronpa. As the remaining viewers tuned out, Tsumugi, completely and utterly defeated, told Keebo to go ahead and destroy the school. He did so, killing Tsumugi in the process, then activated his self-destruct feature and deliberately flew into the glass dome surrounding the school.

Somehow, me, Maki and Himiko were able to escape from the rubble mostly unscathed. And when we did, we noticed this huge blue portal looking thing in the sky...

When we saw it, we considered the possibility that Tsumugi was lying about our past selves willingly signing up to participate in Danganronpa, and about the original editions of Danganronpa being fiction...

And in hope’s it’s where it would lead us, we stepped through the portal and departed for the real world...

And that’s how I somehow ended up here, through that weird portal...

I...woah...

[hermanwatts]

Sensor Sweep: Spears of Clontarf, Mech, Max Brand, Melee, Dresden Files

Robert E. Howard (Jeffro Johnson): This is a great story, a fascinating piece.

In the first place, it shows us up close the sort of peoples, Christian and pagan, that produced the bedrock of the myth and legends that would define our base concepts of fantasy and heroism. But it also presents the notion that we are descended from people that were every bit as heroic as Conan and Solomon Kane. And being written by Robert E. Howard, you can’t help but end up being persuaded!

So many good lines here:

My lords, it may be God’s will I fall in the first onset– but the scars of slavery burn deep in my back this night, and may the dogs eat my bones if I am backward when the spears are splintering.

  Fiction (Rawle Nyanzi): It’s finally here. The project that myself, Brian Niemeier, and Bradford C. Walker set out to complete is under way. Three mech books — two currently released, one in pre-orders — can finally be purchased on Amazon. One even has a sequel out. These stories are very different from one another. Xseed is military sci-fi in the Gundam mold, very grounded in realism; Reavers is “Christian knights in space,” strongly modeled off of both chivalric romances and classic Star Wars. My own book is based strongly on Japanese-style superhero shows, specifically Power Rangers, while also taking place in an alternate history.

      Authors (DMR Books): Frederick Faust, better known to millions of fans over the last hundred years as “Max Brand,” was born on this date in 1892. Awhile back, I wrote a post on H. Bedford-Jones where I called him “King of the Pulps.” I may need to change my mind on that one. I was following the opinion of Darrell C. Richardson–whose opinions and erudition I esteem greatly–in that instance. I think I’ll have to belatedly disagree with Darrell this time.

While Bedford-Jones is calculated to have written about twenty-five million words for the pulps in his career, Faust wrote at least that many in a shorter career–Faust died five years before Bedford-Jones, almost to the day. Both men wrote in various genres, but Faust appears to have made better money doing so.

  Fiction (HiLo Brow): Ernest Hemingway‘s WWI adventure A Farewell to Arms. A hardboiled account — by a disillusioned American, Frederic Henry, serving as a paramedic in the ambulance corps of the Italian Army — of the horrors of WWI. “I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain,” Henry recounts. “I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it…” Our narrator is introduced to Catherine Barkley, an English nurse, whom he indifferently attempts to seduce; he gets to know Catherine better as he recuperates under her care, after being wounded on the Italian front; he is sent back to the front — leaving a pregnant Catherine behind in Milan.

      Fiction (Eldtrich Paths): Grave Peril is the third book of the Dresden Files. I had no major problems with the first two books in the series, but I can see why many readers say the series picks up with this book. A lot happens. Harry Dresden has to deal with more characters, more problems, and more enemies are. The author really puts Harry through the grinder with this one, making it a great chapter in the series.

  Fiction (DMR Books): The second installment in the serialized version of Tros of Samothrace is titled “The Enemy of Rome” and consists of what would become chapters 15 – 26 of the novel published in 1934. Set in the late summer/early fall of the year 55 B.C., this story tells of the aftermath of Julius Caesar’s first invasion of Britain and was first published in the April 10, 1925 issue of Adventure magazine.

Tros has won his first skirmish with Caesar and Rome: he has Caesar’s ship, his pay chests, his seal of office and all of his correspondence (not just military intelligence but much of his foe’s schemes and ongoing plans).

    History (Don Herron): Recently I read A Splendid Savage: The Restless Life of Frederick Russell

Burnham by Steve Kemper. Here’s a paragraph from the book:

Apaches inspired terror for good reason. They were as harsh and pitiless as the landscape they roamed. For non-Apaches, the worst imaginable fate was to be taken alive by them. Captured children and young women were occasionally integrated into the tribe, but men were doomed to torments. Captives were often turned over to Apache women whose male relatives had recently been killed. 

      Fiction (Black Gate): The Wrath of Fantomas is a book I approached with extreme prejudice. It’s a graphic novel that seeks to present a new version of Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain’s Fantomas series, which proved so successful when it was introduced a scant 108 years ago. As a rule, I dislike the concept of rebooting a series.

When first discovering a book series as a kid, continuity was key. It made a property more meaningful if there were numerous volumes to find and devour. Scouring used bookstores for dogeared copies of the missing pieces in the narrative puzzle made such books far more valuable to me.

  Fiction (Hillbilly Highway): You can imagine my interest then, when I discovered that an Appendix N and Weird Tales stalwart, Manly Wade Wellman, wrote an entire series of short stories very much rooted in the lore of my people.  About John.  At least that’s the only way his name is given in the stories.  He is more usually known as John the Balladeer or Silver John.  He may also be a parallel universe Johnny Cash.  Or maybe John the Baptist.  Or maybe both.

  Games (Jeffro Johnson): This game is so rad.

I get it out to show it to people, as if to just explain what it is and show off the components…. But then, if you have time to explain it, you pretty much have time to play it. And once you play it, you gotta play it again!

The sample character cards from the recent Fantasy Trip “Monster” Set make this even easier. Just pick a card. Pick one at random, even. Man, it’s just so easy.

  Games and Popular Culture (Wasteland and Sky): I’m unconvinced there is a Millennial who knows what an actual homage is. They should, but for some reason have discarded this definition from their minds. A “homage” is clearly not swiping passages of another writer’s work and not transforming it to a new form, such as comedy or parody, or attributing the original when doing so. But that aside there is a another quote that gives the game away.

  Cinema (Sacnoth’s Scriptorium): So, the organizers of Tolkien Day in Kalamazoo arranged for a special showing of the new TOLKIEN biopic to a room full of Tolkien scholars. We were on the whole a skeptical bunch as to whether the filmmakers cd pull it off, but willing to see how it had come out.

The first thing that struck me was the trees. Tolkien famously said you can’t get much about trees into a play, one reason he considered drama inferior to fiction, but the filmmakers showed this is not necessarily the case for film.

  Fiction (Classic Mysteries): I’m pretty sure that readers who enjoy some of the great classics of science fiction are already familiar with the name of Fredric Brown. I have particularly fond memories of several of his SF classics, such as Martians, Go Home. But I’m also fond of Brown as a mystery author. And, as a fan of Lewis Carroll, and the Alice in Wonderland books in general, I generally try to re-read one of my favorite Fredric Brown mysteries, Night of the Jabberwock, every few years. It’s funny, medium-to-hard-boiled, and I think its plot is both unique and brilliant. It’s not always available in the marketplace, but – as of May, 2019 – it looks like it’s out there at least as an e-book. So here’s what I had to say about Night of the Jabberwock when I reviewed it on the Classic Mysteries podcast several years ago. I’ve updated the information about the book’s availability, but otherwise it’s pretty much as I first wrote and recorded it.

Pulp Science Fiction (SF Magazine): The Debt by E. Mayne Hull is the third of her ‘Artur Blord’ series, and sees the return of the alien Skal from the previous story. This one starts with Blord coming upon a ravaged spaceship, where all the men are dead and there is only one hidden survivor, Ellen Reith. All the other women have been taken by the Skal’s henchmen to the Castle of Pleasure. Blord realises that they will soon deduce from the manifest that Reith is missing, and that they will return for her. He calls his office to organise a cover up.

  Fiction(Paperback Warrior): Author Paul Bishop is a 35-year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department. Receiving “Detective of the Year” accolades twice, Bishop starred as the lead interrogator on the ABC reality show “Take the Money and Run” developed by marquee name producer Jerry Bruckheimer. Along with his 15 published works, Bishop also is the writer and editor of the essential reference work “52 Weeks 52 Western Novels – A Guide to Six-Gun Favorites and New Discoveries”.

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