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- From: louie@lacerta.unm.edu (Gary 'Taipan' Louie)
- Subject: SF anime-inspired giant robot story in Asimov's
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 23:33:54 GMT
- Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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- The cover story of the Jan. 1993 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine
- is called "Mudzilla's Last Stand". In it, a Japanese corporation, whose
- engineers had been influenced by anime like "Macross" and "Patlabor" ,
- had actually built a couple of giant robots. They were sort of a dud in
- what they were intended to be used for, so the company was looking for a
- way to get back some of their money. They end up selling one of them to
- a US company that runs big-truck and tractor-pull types of events in the
- Midwest and Southern states, which is the basic framework of the story.
-
- Warning: Those who are easily offended by a certain abbreviation that refers
- to Japanese or by the term 'cartoon' used for animation, there are a couple
- of occurences of each happening in the story.
-