Ein Beitrag von Wayne Borean
Perry Rhodan is claimed to be the most successful Science Fiction series ever. When it started back in 1961, no one knew how successful it would be. I suspect if the original writers had known how well it would do, they probably would have run screaming...
Perry Rhodan has always had one huge disadvantage, and that is the lack of a timely English translation.
Ein Beitrag von Scott Oden
The spear bites low and deep, slipping between bronze and leather to skewer his hip. He stumbles. The enemy surges forward. A wicker shield catches him off balance; a second spear shatters on the brow of his Corinthian helmet. Zeus Savior and Ares! he bellows; faces loom over him cruel Asiatics with curled and blood-blasted beards, lips peeled back in snarls of hate. They had paid dearly for this. Oh, yes. They had paid the butchers bill, a hecatomb of blood and flesh for every man among them. He falls to his knees, hears his own men cry out his name: Leonidas!
Time slows. A tracery of clouds veil the face of the sun, creating bands of light and shadow across the stony face of Mount Kallidromos. Colors flare and sharpen: the purple of Persian tunics, the gleam of scale and bronze, the warm chestnut of leather
all nearly hidden by a pall of blood. Times flow resumes with a scream of rage.
Ein Beitrag von Scott Oden
On the morning of the third day at Thermopylae, as the Spartans were preparing for their deaths at the hands of the invading Persians, King Leonidas went among his men; according to Plutarch, he gave them one last command as they broke their fast: "Eat hearty, for tonight we dine in Hades."
The phrase itself is pure Laconian: short, punchy, and tinged with the sort of gallows humor Spartans enjoyed. But it's the idea behind it that inspired my short tale:
Ein Beitrag von Larry Atchley, Jr
I fell into the Lawyers in Hell project almost as one falls into hell itself; suddenly, unexpectedly, and incredibly. How I came to know and collaborate with Janet Morris was simple happenstance, if you believe in that sort of thing, or fate, which I am more inclined to accept. I had been leaving comments and referencing quotes on The Sacred Band web site and facebook page and had caught Janets attention. This being her other series of stories and novels that I have loved reading over the years, I was happy to contribute what I could and thrilled to be able to correspond with her.
Ein Beitrag von Sarah Hulcy
The Chief Librarian of Hells Law Library was spending a tremendous amount of time and energy trying to track down every tiny crack in the Librarys rock walls. Ever since Erra and the Seven sent a massive flood down the road that ran straight into New Hell, Demetrius of Phalerum had been chasing trickles of nasty, muddy, foul-smelling water (and who knew what else) to find the leaks and plug them until repairs could be made. The moisture threatened the most delicate contents of the Library the ancient scrolls, parchment and papyrus recording laws from antiquity. Stone and clay tablets werent as difficult to protect as papyri, but the modern books were almost as sensitive to dampness as the oldest materials.
Demetrius was having trouble staying ahead of the water because the Library encompassed fourteen entire floors the lowest fourteen of the Hall of Injustice, where the Administration and its myriad bureaucratic departments were located. These particular floors had been chipped out of the solid rock by prisoners held in His Satanic Majestys dungeon, over a period of aeons.