You know something? I hate the military. Why, you ask? Go ahead, ask it. It's not because pinko liberal flag-burning tofu- eating blood flows through these arteries; no, it's because they get all the coolest stuff.
For example: My ex-roommate, Spike, is in the National Guard, and he was part of a Nuclear- Biological- Chemical Prevention and Clean-up Strike Force
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Troopers or something, and as such, he attended many conferences and was privy to ALL KINDS OF GOODIES! He saw prototypes for light-bending gear, spray-can kevlar, even the base stages for a freaking MECHA!
The way he described this melding of man and machine was thus:
It did not cover the whole body. It was a leg-and-back support mechanism, that allowed the user to walk, as well as lift something like 2 or 3 TONS! Cheese and freakin' rice, people. I hate the army.
Anyway, less time for talking about Spike and his stupid army, and more time for talking about the latest Atomjack news. Starting right now, the very second you finish this sentence, a contest is beginning. Atomjack's first annual 8 days late contest! Go here for all the details.
This issue we've got a distinct lack of robots—instead we have Aztec cat people vs. the Muslims (and it's still science fiction, believe it or not); there's a great story about why memory cards are called memory cards; Thomas White takes us down under for a tale of nukes, freaks, dwarves and priests; Anthony Bernstein gives us a poem with a less-than-hopeful outlook for the future. Also, G. W. Thomas delights us with more of the exploits of Chuck the Penguin, and an important update in the court case of the century: Cyrus vs. The United Securitarian Authority! Click here to hear the cypodcast. Plus, Oscar Deadwood gave our in-house bounty hunter a hitch and an interview about life, the desert, and his first novel The Perfect Revolution.
