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- From: bahamut@shakala.com (Motoko Kusanagi)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
- Subject: Re: SF anime-inspired giant robot story in Asimov's
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 22:57:31 PST
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- louie@lacerta.unm.edu (Gary 'Taipan' Louie) writes:
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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.
-
- Hmmm... may perchance you know who the author was? I'm a little curious
- now...
-
- Motoko
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- >
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