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[Greg Cox]

Finished "The Colossus from the Crater" last night and fired it off to Monstrous magazine for their comments.

This is the sci-fi horror story about a thirty-foot-tall mummy running amok on an alien moon I promised to write back in August.

My inspiration? Curiously enough, kaiju-sized mummies are a recurring theme on horror movie posters, but only symbolically, alas.

I couldn't resist making it literal for once.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

I couldn't resist making it literal for once.

I think I've done that once or twice. Of course we both have a lot of catching up to do, before we're anywhere close to the Zucker Brothers.

 

[Christopher]

My inspiration? Curiously enough, kaiju-sized mummies are a recurring theme on horror movie posters, but only symbolically, alas.

I couldn't resist making it literal for once.

The Super Sentai/Power Rangers franchise has had occasional mummy-themed monsters that have grown to giant size for the climactic giant-robot fights, for instance:

Morgumorgu

Morgumorgu (モルグモルグ, Morugumorugu) is a mummy-themed Majin of the Space Pirates Balban under Spectral Empress Iliess. Morgumorgu is a mummy-themed Majin. He intended to revive Daitanix using the extracted beauty of 81 virgins. He can wrap his bandages around women's faces and steal/extract their...

powerrangers.fandom.com

Mummy Minosaur

The Mummy Minosaur (ミイラマイナソー, Miira Mainasō) is a mummy-themed Minosaur monster from the Warfare Tribe Druidon, created from the negative emotions of Mioko Karino, the Prime Minister of Japan who was a member of the Ryusoul Tribe, based on her desire to die alongside her aging human lover...

powerrangers.fandom.com

 

[Greg Cox]

The Super Sentai/Power Rangers franchise has had occasional mummy-themed monsters that have grown to giant size for the climactic giant-robot fights, for instance:

Morgumorgu

Morgumorgu (モルグモルグ, Morugumorugu) is a mummy-themed Majin of the Space Pirates Balban under Spectral Empress Iliess. Morgumorgu is a mummy-themed Majin. He intended to revive Daitanix using the extracted beauty of 81 virgins. He can wrap his bandages around women's faces and steal/extract their...

powerrangers.fandom.com

Mummy Minosaur

The Mummy Minosaur (ミイラマイナソー, Miira Mainasō) is a mummy-themed Minosaur monster from the Warfare Tribe Druidon, created from the negative emotions of Mioko Karino, the Prime Minister of Japan who was a member of the Ryusoul Tribe, based on her desire to die alongside her aging human lover...

powerrangers.fandom.com

I confess I'm more familiar with the Universal Monsters and Hammer Horror mummies.

 

[KRAD]

Today is the official release day for the hardcover and eBook of my new urban fantasy series Supernatural Crimes Unit: NYPD Book 1: The Thin Blue Ley-Line! Ordering links (as well as cover, flap copy, and an excerpt) can be found here.

 

[David Mack]

Congrats!

 

[Christopher]

As usual, the folks at Analog Science Fiction and Fact asked me to write an essay for their blog, The Astounding Analog Companion, to accompany my new novella “Aleyara’s Flight.” Rather than do the kind of Q&A piece I’ve generally done before, it occurred to me to adapt some of my extensive history notes about Aleyara’s species, the Biauru, and the world they inhabit, to give some extra insight into their world and culture. Check it out here:

In an Alien Past: The History Behind “Aleyara’s Flight”

by Christopher L. Bennett In this special blog post, delve into the worldbuilding behind the Biauru, Christopher L. Bennett’s alien species that features in some of his newest work for Analog…

theastoundinganalogcompanion.com

 

[Greg Cox]

Just spent the last couple days proofing the galleys for my first short-story collection, Dubious Pleasures, which is coming out in February, in conjunction with Boskone.

The book collects a bunch of my original fiction, some dating back forty years or so, and, re-reading them now, was quite the trip down Memory Lane. And, yes, you can tell some of the older stories were written back in the early eighties, both from the pop culture references (Flashdance, Annie Hall, Madonna) and the technology: typewriters, noisy dot-matrix printers, floppy disks, mimeographs, newsstands.

How time flies!

 

[FredH]

Finished "The Colossus from the Crater" last night and fired it off to Monstrous magazine for their comments.

This is the sci-fi horror story about a thirty-foot-tall mummy running amok on an alien moon I promised to write back in August.

My inspiration? Curiously enough, kaiju-sized mummies are a recurring theme on horror movie posters, but only symbolically, alas.

I couldn't resist making it literal for once.

I’m a couple of months late to this, but I think you may have just sold Monstrous magazine to me…