"NOTE" - читать интересную книгу автора (Jerome Bigge - Warlady 3 - The Queen Of Swords)THE QUEEN OF SWORDS! A TALE OF ADVENTURE IN THE SECOND DARK AGE OF MAN 2566 A.D.! By Jerome B. Bigge Author's Note In my first books, "2565 A.D.!", we traveled in our imagina- tions with Dr. Lorraine Duval, a Los Angeles psychiatrist, and her lovely stepdaughter Sharon from here in the 20th Century through time to the 26th Century. To the year 2565 A.D. where we found the world had been muchly changed. Where an interplanetary war had taken place in the year 2047 with the alien inhabitants of the planet Mars. Where Mankind now lived beneath an alien do- minion in a social order very much like in many ways that of the Middle Ages, although with some important differences. Here Lor- raine Duval found adventure, love, and eventually became the Queen of Trelandar, a country covering much of present-day Cali- fornia. A country part of a larger Empire on the west coast of North America ruled by the incredibly beautiful golden Darlanis. And now once again we travel in our imaginations into the future. To a future world where all of Mankind still lives be- neath the claw of the terrifying Lorr, a race of gigantic ant- like aliens from another star system. Where our own time is but a half-remembered legend. To the realm of the beautiful Darlanis Marden, Queen of Sarn, a barbaric Empress of Imperial California! The year being 2566 A.D., or 519 A. W. as our heroine thinks of it now as we see it through the lovely eyes of Darlanis herself! And once again you will make the acquaintance of Lorraine, the greatest swordswoman of the 26th Century, her lovely step- daughter Sharon Duval, and naturally that evil Bajan Princess you learned to hate in the first book, Tara Bisan, will have her role to play in things as well others. In other words it promises to be another rip-roaring tale of adventure just like my first book! I have been asked: "HOW `LIKELY' ARE ANY OF THE THINGS YOU WRITE ABOUT IN YOUR STORIES?" Will there someday "be" a "Janet Rogers"? A "World Federation"? "Is there `life' on Mars?" "Do the `flying saucers' actually exist?" "Could the lightyears that separate the star systems actually be crossed?" "Could creatures like the `Lorr' actually exist in the scientific sense?" "Is there any evidence at all for any of this or is it all fantasy?" First, I consider it quite possible that we will see a "Janet Rogers" and that she will be elected President of the United States. Janet was an excellent public speaker and she said what needed "saying" when the "time was right". There are a number of historical parallels. She was a very "attractive" wom- an, tall, slim, dark haired, and very "quick-witted" according to what Lorraine writes of her. One assumes she would have made a very "impressive" political candidate. As for a "World Federa- tion", who knows? We have the UN now. There was joint military action by a large number of nations against Iraq here in 1991. I see no reason, especially given "electronic hypnosis", that Janet Rogers couldn't have become the first world dictator. That part of our future may not be too "far-fetched". We have a lot of problems that only someone like Janet Rogers could solve for us! Problems I fear that only a true dictator would be able to solve! Second, as for "life on Mars", who knows? It is doubtful given what we now know about the planet that "intelligent" life could have ever evolved on the planet. The best we can hope for here would probably be single celled types of life more like bac- teria and so forth. It should be noted by the reader however that Mars would be "easy" to colonize by someone with an "ad- vanced technology" like the Lorr. We could "colonize" Mars our- selves and there are already "plans" by NASA for doing just that! Third, as for the issue of "flying saucers", who knows? If you deny the existence of "UFO's", then what "are" people seeing? One might also consider the fact that most of these "sightings" seem to have come after we set off our first atomic explosions! Maybe "someone" out there is getting worried a bit about things! We are not the sort of a race many would like to "share" a solar system with. Especially not if you know a bit about our history! Fourth, "starships" of the sort the Lorr used to travel from their solar system to ours are within our own scientific abili- ties given fusion power, which the Lorr did possess. Granted, we are probably a century or two from having that sort of "technolo- gy", but it is certainly less "far-fetched" than that of "STAR WARS" or "STAR TREK". The Lorr starships are in theory possible. Fifth, are creatures like the Lorr possible? The "Lorr" are not "ants". They are not "insects". I don't know if such crea- tures are biologically "possible" or not. The "idea" behind the "Lorr" is based upon creatures used by another author some sixty odd years ago where he had gigantic ants on the planet Venus who communicated by radio. The books are now "out of print", but may be available in a "used book" store. They are "THE RADIO MAN", "THE RADIO BEASTS", and "THE RADIO PLANET". One may also look at the "GOR" series by the late John Norman where he had creatures called "Priest-Kings" that resembled gigantic praying mantises! This is after-all a story written to "entertain", not to believe. Sixth, we might consider here that there are a number of "unexplained mysteries" to which "modern Science" cannot give us any "answers" for. We are still not "sure" where Cro-Magnon Man came from. There was a definite "jump" in our "evolution". There are "legends" dating back in time of "advanced civiliza- tions" such as "Atlantis". Could the Lorr have tried colonizing the Earth with their own "creations" thousands of years ago? In 1908 there was a strange explosion over Siberia much like that of a large H-bomb. Did some new Lorr spaceship suffer "containment failure" a few miles above the forests? There is "evidence" of "radiation burns" by those animals living in the area. Those who actually witnessed the explosion gave reports that sound an awful lot like witnesses to an atomic explosion of some sort! Raspa did tell Lorraine that there were two "accidents" with their spaceships. Was the explosion in 1908 over Siberia one of them? There are Russian scientists who believe that it was a spaceship! There is also the fact that there are events occurring from time to time right here on Earth for which we have never been able to come with any "rational" explanation for. Strange disap- pearances of aircraft, ships, and people. There is some evidence available that "wormholes" in "space-time" might be "possible". Perhaps the "Gateways" do exist. There is some evidence for them. There was an airliner that flew through something strange that caused everyone's watch to be about fifteen minutes slow!!! Lorraine noted in her books that a Lorr battle-disc was shot down over the area that we refer to as the "Bermuda Triangle" during The War of 2047 between Earth and Mars! It's entire stock of anti-matter bombs going off when it crashed into the Atlantic!!! Could there be a "Gateway" somewhere out there over the Atlantic? And now if you carefully read all of Lorraine's story, (read it again if need be) you might have noticed that Queen Tulis seemed strangely "hostile" to the teenage Darlanis when she came home crying and told Queen Tulis that her brother had raped her! She certainly didn't behave towards her like a real mother would! There was of course a good "reason" for this, which Darlanis her- self didn't know anything about, and which will play its own part in this story. And did you notice Aurora's concern over Darlanis both there on Mars and later on when the Starfire played its role in ridding Trelandar of Princess Tara's own band of cut-throats? And Darlanis' own little "footnotes" there in Lorraine's story??? (Along with Lorraine's suspicions as to what the TRUTH was here?) Darlanis is probably more of a "story-book" heroine in that she does "dumb things" and gets herself into "troubles" that a more "rational" person (like us?) might avoid. On the other hand we wouldn't have much of a "story" if she did, so I'm happy that she is a "dumb blonde" as it allows me to have "fun" with her! I suppose that is a part of writing "stories" like these. Of get- ting your character into "fantastic" situations and then somehow getting them "back out" again. Of sometimes perhaps "amazing" the reader with "stunts" that seem at first glance "unbelievable" such as Aurora's stepping out on to the surface of the Moon with- out wearing a spacesuit! Actually however this is not all that "impossible" as it may sound. She is a MARTIAN, with a different sort of blood than ours, and stepping from an atmospheric pres- sure of 1.5 PSI to one of zero wouldn't be that big a change! It might be noted here that if a skin-diver was to breathe pure oxy- gen before making a descent, they could hold their breath for a longer period of time than they could doing the same with air. I assume that Aurora did much the same. She states that her own "people" could go without breathing for as long as five minutes! The reader will note that this story swings back and forth between Darlanis (the major character) and a number of the other characters in the story. I believe this makes the story more en- joyable even if it does "violate" ordinary writing conventions. Jerome B. Bigge THE QUEEN OF SWORDS! A TALE OF ADVENTURE IN THE SECOND DARK AGE OF MAN 2566 A.D.! By Jerome B. Bigge Author's Note In my first books, "2565 A.D.!", we traveled in our imagina- tions with Dr. Lorraine Duval, a Los Angeles psychiatrist, and her lovely stepdaughter Sharon from here in the 20th Century through time to the 26th Century. To the year 2565 A.D. where we found the world had been muchly changed. Where an interplanetary war had taken place in the year 2047 with the alien inhabitants of the planet Mars. Where Mankind now lived beneath an alien do- minion in a social order very much like in many ways that of the Middle Ages, although with some important differences. Here Lor- raine Duval found adventure, love, and eventually became the Queen of Trelandar, a country covering much of present-day Cali- fornia. A country part of a larger Empire on the west coast of North America ruled by the incredibly beautiful golden Darlanis. And now once again we travel in our imaginations into the future. To a future world where all of Mankind still lives be- neath the claw of the terrifying Lorr, a race of gigantic ant- like aliens from another star system. Where our own time is but a half-remembered legend. To the realm of the beautiful Darlanis Marden, Queen of Sarn, a barbaric Empress of Imperial California! The year being 2566 A.D., or 519 A. W. as our heroine thinks of it now as we see it through the lovely eyes of Darlanis herself! And once again you will make the acquaintance of Lorraine, the greatest swordswoman of the 26th Century, her lovely step- daughter Sharon Duval, and naturally that evil Bajan Princess you learned to hate in the first book, Tara Bisan, will have her role to play in things as well others. In other words it promises to be another rip-roaring tale of adventure just like my first book! I have been asked: "HOW `LIKELY' ARE ANY OF THE THINGS YOU WRITE ABOUT IN YOUR STORIES?" Will there someday "be" a "Janet Rogers"? A "World Federation"? "Is there `life' on Mars?" "Do the `flying saucers' actually exist?" "Could the lightyears that separate the star systems actually be crossed?" "Could creatures like the `Lorr' actually exist in the scientific sense?" "Is there any evidence at all for any of this or is it all fantasy?" First, I consider it quite possible that we will see a "Janet Rogers" and that she will be elected President of the United States. Janet was an excellent public speaker and she said what needed "saying" when the "time was right". There are a number of historical parallels. She was a very "attractive" wom- an, tall, slim, dark haired, and very "quick-witted" according to what Lorraine writes of her. One assumes she would have made a very "impressive" political candidate. As for a "World Federa- tion", who knows? We have the UN now. There was joint military action by a large number of nations against Iraq here in 1991. I see no reason, especially given "electronic hypnosis", that Janet Rogers couldn't have become the first world dictator. That part of our future may not be too "far-fetched". We have a lot of problems that only someone like Janet Rogers could solve for us! Problems I fear that only a true dictator would be able to solve! Second, as for "life on Mars", who knows? It is doubtful given what we now know about the planet that "intelligent" life could have ever evolved on the planet. The best we can hope for here would probably be single celled types of life more like bac- teria and so forth. It should be noted by the reader however that Mars would be "easy" to colonize by someone with an "ad- vanced technology" like the Lorr. We could "colonize" Mars our- selves and there are already "plans" by NASA for doing just that! Third, as for the issue of "flying saucers", who knows? If you deny the existence of "UFO's", then what "are" people seeing? One might also consider the fact that most of these "sightings" seem to have come after we set off our first atomic explosions! Maybe "someone" out there is getting worried a bit about things! We are not the sort of a race many would like to "share" a solar system with. Especially not if you know a bit about our history! Fourth, "starships" of the sort the Lorr used to travel from their solar system to ours are within our own scientific abili- ties given fusion power, which the Lorr did possess. Granted, we are probably a century or two from having that sort of "technolo- gy", but it is certainly less "far-fetched" than that of "STAR WARS" or "STAR TREK". The Lorr starships are in theory possible. Fifth, are creatures like the Lorr possible? The "Lorr" are not "ants". They are not "insects". I don't know if such crea- tures are biologically "possible" or not. The "idea" behind the "Lorr" is based upon creatures used by another author some sixty odd years ago where he had gigantic ants on the planet Venus who communicated by radio. The books are now "out of print", but may be available in a "used book" store. They are "THE RADIO MAN", "THE RADIO BEASTS", and "THE RADIO PLANET". One may also look at the "GOR" series by the late John Norman where he had creatures called "Priest-Kings" that resembled gigantic praying mantises! This is after-all a story written to "entertain", not to believe. Sixth, we might consider here that there are a number of "unexplained mysteries" to which "modern Science" cannot give us any "answers" for. We are still not "sure" where Cro-Magnon Man came from. There was a definite "jump" in our "evolution". There are "legends" dating back in time of "advanced civiliza- tions" such as "Atlantis". Could the Lorr have tried colonizing the Earth with their own "creations" thousands of years ago? In 1908 there was a strange explosion over Siberia much like that of a large H-bomb. Did some new Lorr spaceship suffer "containment failure" a few miles above the forests? There is "evidence" of "radiation burns" by those animals living in the area. Those who actually witnessed the explosion gave reports that sound an awful lot like witnesses to an atomic explosion of some sort! Raspa did tell Lorraine that there were two "accidents" with their spaceships. Was the explosion in 1908 over Siberia one of them? There are Russian scientists who believe that it was a spaceship! There is also the fact that there are events occurring from time to time right here on Earth for which we have never been able to come with any "rational" explanation for. Strange disap- pearances of aircraft, ships, and people. There is some evidence available that "wormholes" in "space-time" might be "possible". Perhaps the "Gateways" do exist. There is some evidence for them. There was an airliner that flew through something strange that caused everyone's watch to be about fifteen minutes slow!!! Lorraine noted in her books that a Lorr battle-disc was shot down over the area that we refer to as the "Bermuda Triangle" during The War of 2047 between Earth and Mars! It's entire stock of anti-matter bombs going off when it crashed into the Atlantic!!! Could there be a "Gateway" somewhere out there over the Atlantic? And now if you carefully read all of Lorraine's story, (read it again if need be) you might have noticed that Queen Tulis seemed strangely "hostile" to the teenage Darlanis when she came home crying and told Queen Tulis that her brother had raped her! She certainly didn't behave towards her like a real mother would! There was of course a good "reason" for this, which Darlanis her- self didn't know anything about, and which will play its own part in this story. And did you notice Aurora's concern over Darlanis both there on Mars and later on when the Starfire played its role in ridding Trelandar of Princess Tara's own band of cut-throats? And Darlanis' own little "footnotes" there in Lorraine's story??? (Along with Lorraine's suspicions as to what the TRUTH was here?) Darlanis is probably more of a "story-book" heroine in that she does "dumb things" and gets herself into "troubles" that a more "rational" person (like us?) might avoid. On the other hand we wouldn't have much of a "story" if she did, so I'm happy that she is a "dumb blonde" as it allows me to have "fun" with her! I suppose that is a part of writing "stories" like these. Of get- ting your character into "fantastic" situations and then somehow getting them "back out" again. Of sometimes perhaps "amazing" the reader with "stunts" that seem at first glance "unbelievable" such as Aurora's stepping out on to the surface of the Moon with- out wearing a spacesuit! Actually however this is not all that "impossible" as it may sound. She is a MARTIAN, with a different sort of blood than ours, and stepping from an atmospheric pres- sure of 1.5 PSI to one of zero wouldn't be that big a change! It might be noted here that if a skin-diver was to breathe pure oxy- gen before making a descent, they could hold their breath for a longer period of time than they could doing the same with air. I assume that Aurora did much the same. She states that her own "people" could go without breathing for as long as five minutes! The reader will note that this story swings back and forth between Darlanis (the major character) and a number of the other characters in the story. I believe this makes the story more en- joyable even if it does "violate" ordinary writing conventions. Jerome B. Bigge |
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