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Emster comments: The Tech Dept warned if he lost one more prosthetic hand they’d tie a mitten string to the thumb and staple the other end to his elbow.
Published 1989
(Average: 5.50 out of 10)
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Emster comments: The Tech Dept warned if he lost one more prosthetic hand they’d tie a mitten string to the thumb and staple the other end to his elbow.
Published 1989
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June 13th, 2023 at 10:20 am
You don’t want to be around when he activates the William Wallace.
June 13th, 2023 at 10:52 am
Kwai Chang Caine decides he’s had enough and is ready for a bit of the ultraviolence.
June 13th, 2023 at 12:14 pm
He’s armed with the firepower, and he has fired with the arm power.
June 13th, 2023 at 2:36 pm
I don’t know how guns work but not as much as our UAI graduate doesn’t know how guns (or anything) work. Does the hand just attach to the front of the gun or is there a missing piece? Is there a quick release mechanism? Why would you carry a gun when you are a gun? So many questions.
June 13th, 2023 at 3:08 pm
Are the laser eyes for targetting? If so, one would be sufficient and the other eye could be used for seeing the results, perhaps.
I’m impressed by his one-legged stance – obviously the recoil’s not so bad after all.
June 13th, 2023 at 4:02 pm
Shortly thereafter the remains of his left arm suffered n-th degree burns due to insufficient cooling of what appears to be some kind of gatling gun that was haphazardly mounted directly on his stump…
June 13th, 2023 at 6:04 pm
Judging by his frayed right sleeve and the line on his right wrist. Maybe that arm connects directly to a chain saw.
Wow, what a great idea. How come nobody’s ever thought of that, for a film or tv series?
June 13th, 2023 at 6:34 pm
Not what I was expecting when I heard this was a book about unarmed combat.
June 13th, 2023 at 7:25 pm
@Steve S
There was (fairly crap) British comic strip around a similar conceit during the ’80s.
http://solarnavigator.net/books/books_images/john_storm_cyborg_storm_force.jpg
June 13th, 2023 at 8:29 pm
Groovy.
June 13th, 2023 at 10:24 pm
The expression on his face reads to me like “Oh shit!” (Maybe that’s where the fake hand is coming from?) Perhaps he has just realized what @Leak said?
Is it a gun, a flamethrower, or just a propane torch/BBQ lighter?
He’s not a patch on this 80s guy:
https://hero.fandom.com/wiki/Cobra_(Space_Adventure_Cobra)
That was a cool dude. One of the first anime series I ever saw all of. Twice, once in Japanese (no subtitles, just dittoed synopses) and once dubbed into English. And the movie, and the translated comics but not the 2000s series.
@Tor: GSS!
June 13th, 2023 at 11:11 pm
“How did he die?”
“He had attached a gun to his left wrist. Then he came to a door and started fumbling with the key. Before he could get the key into the lock, they had shot him.”
June 13th, 2023 at 11:19 pm
He keeps the same uniform and cover blurb through the 8 book series.
https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?2713
June 14th, 2023 at 3:19 am
Zoolander’s follow up to his famous “Blue Steele” pose really knocked ‘em dead. Literally.
June 14th, 2023 at 4:07 am
His left shoulder isn’t where a shoulder oughta be. It might be handy for giving himself a heart-massage but otherwise I don’t think the surgeons thought this through at all.
June 15th, 2023 at 11:11 pm
Holy moly, I looked up who actually wrote these and damn. The man’s capable of coming up with good SF and fun fantasy, but also of stuff to pay the bills.
Many moons ago when he was still going by his birth name, he and I got very very drunk together at a con party and discussed (bitched about) the then woes of our love lives. Do NOT attempt to keep up while drinking with a depressed Russian.
@Tat: Maybe the shoulder is part of the weapon? The combustion chamber? I can’t decide if the thing on his back is a jet pack, bazookas, or propane tanks.