tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post5629064661610914974..comments2024-03-27T11:04:31.390-04:00Comments on From the Sorcerer's Skull: Monster Apocalypse a Go-GoTreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647628467658839351noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post-21905066237520552242013-10-30T07:25:00.371-04:002013-10-30T07:25:00.371-04:00I'm just glad my terrible, terrible taste in l...I'm just glad my terrible, terrible taste in literature has some use. Can't wait to tell my mom!Justin S. Davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14881276106170920830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post-5057134985003580572013-10-30T06:03:45.962-04:002013-10-30T06:03:45.962-04:00Wow. Thanks for the update, Justin!Wow. Thanks for the update, Justin!Treyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04647628467658839351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post-84162958888436029952013-10-30T00:48:33.733-04:002013-10-30T00:48:33.733-04:00For written werewolf-ocalypses, I've read a ha...For written werewolf-ocalypses, I've read a handful.<br /><br />Al Sarrantonio's <i>Moonbane</i> from 1989 is the best, as it features a werewolf invasion from space!<br /><br />Then there's 1990's <i>WerewolveSS</i> by Jerry & Sharon Ahern, which had modern Nazis spreading a werewolf contagion across the US. If I remember right, Sean Connery with the serial numbers filed off stopped them.<br /><br />William D. Carl did <i>Bestial: Werewolf Apocalypse</i> in 2008. All of Cincinnati is overrun by monsters due to "airborne viral lycanthropy".<br /><br />Speaking of bestial, Ray Garton did <i>Ravenous</i> in 2008, and its sequel <i>Bestial</i> in 2009. In those, "rape werewolves" take over a town, and plan on spreading their hold across the nation. <i>Bestial</i> is hands-down one of the sleaziest things I've ever read, with main characters that deserve to die ugly because of gross stupidity. Once on a road trip, I did dramatic readings of the smarm, it was so bad.<br /><br />Oh, yeah! Steve Vance's <i>The Hyde Effect</i> (1986) and <i>Shapes</i> (1991) go with "what if Cameron's <i>Alien</i>, then <i>Aliens</i>, were werewolves"? Mayhem abounds as dozens get turned in a locked facility in the first, and then there's a sequel where they get out.... I'm really, really fond of <i>T.H.E.</i>.Justin S. Davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14881276106170920830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post-64337314554364745252013-10-28T13:58:40.679-04:002013-10-28T13:58:40.679-04:00Jack beat me to it. That bit in the novel where th...Jack beat me to it. That bit in the novel where the (not so) Good Doktor decides that giving his creation a mate could lead to the end of humanity is a very intriguing apocalypse-seed. It wouldn't be immediate, nor even automatic. The creature and it's Bride would need to go somewhere, raise a family, found a lineage, go forth, be fruitful & multiply, as it were (assuming the biological method were the dominant method). Generations would be required in that case...however, working from their progenitor's notes and technical details, they might be able to mass produce their own armies, eventually. Perhaps a mix of the two approaches would be used.<br />These beings can go where humanity has difficulty surviving. They can endure much, wait patiently as they amass their resources and build their numbers...this is a perfect set-up for those behind-the-scenes sorts of cults-and-cabals potboilers. The creations of the created could be designed to perform specialized functions, serve as unique agents...this could rapidly grow into a very different sort of apocalypse...and that's without dragging in any other fun stuff like Other Evil Geniuses etc.<br /><br />It'd make for a great game...garrisonjameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09544523186717576771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post-26499079036920318792013-10-28T10:01:40.444-04:002013-10-28T10:01:40.444-04:00Keep in mind that in Shelley's novel, Victor F...Keep in mind that in Shelley's novel, Victor Frankenstein's reason for not creating a bride for his creation is that he fears they will birth a "race of devils" that will eventually displace humanity from the top of the existential hierarchy!<br /><br />(He's got good reason to fear that...his creation learns faster than any human child, is larger, stronger, more powerful, and can resist the elements!)<br /><br />It's unclear whether this race of creatures would be birthed biologically or through mastery of the same science that Frankenstein discovers, but either way it would make for a fun apocalypse.Jack Guignolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05226738666709754348noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post-8096047361845715402013-10-27T11:20:05.285-04:002013-10-27T11:20:05.285-04:00That it does! Or maybe psipiscoid. There's one...That it does! Or maybe psipiscoid. There's one to send spellcheckers into a meltdown.Treyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04647628467658839351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post-46702301436694782182013-10-27T11:13:49.713-04:002013-10-27T11:13:49.713-04:00You misspelled piscoid as psicoid once, sounds lik...You misspelled piscoid as psicoid once, sounds like a great name for a psionic fishman<br /><br />http://castletriskelion.blogspot.com/Darnizhaanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15005189125696185700noreply@blogger.com