![]() Our discovery of the existence of the Harvang was perhaps the most astonishing news in the history of humanity. They couldn’t tell you a thing about our early discoveries of atmosphere and biological life on our planet’s sizeable satellite, or about the initial fleet that went to lay claim to it. It’s a sad fact that currently most young people aren’t aware of the historic incidents that led to our war with the Harvang and the necessity of the Robot General. But once the video started coming back from the front, visions of slaughter more powerful than any celluloid fantasy, mutilated Harvang corpses stacked to the sky, the old actor donned a flag pin on his lapel and did a series of war bond television commercials of which the most prominent feature was his nervous smile. Not everyone saw the likeness, and Sassoon himself, a devout pacifist, who was well along in years when the general took his first steps out of the laboratory, sued for defamation of character. His countenance, made of an astounding, pliable, non-flammable, blast-beam resistant, self-healing, rubber alloy, was supposedly sculpted in homage to the dashing looks of Rendel Sassoon, star of the acclaimed film epic, For God and Country. He smoked a pipe, and before turning each page of a newspaper, he’d bring his chrome index finger to his dry rubber slit of a mouth as if he were moistening its tip. Alternating current droned from a faulty fuse in his solar plexus, and occasionally, mostly on wet days, sparks wreathed his head like a halo of bright gnats. He creaked when he walked, piston compressions and the click of a warped flywheel whispering within his trousers. ![]() He wore his uniform still, even the peaked cap with the old emblem of the Galaxy Corps embroidered in gold. Instead of hair, his scalp was sandpaper. The metal mustache and eyebrows were ridiculously fake, but the eyes were the most beautiful glass facsimiles, creamy white with irises like dark blue flowers. His mouth opened and closed rhythmically, accurately, displaying a full set of human teeth gleaned from fallen comrades and the stitched tube of plush leather that was his tongue. ![]() In his later years, when he spoke, a faint whirring came from his lower jaw. Series: The Tales of Gorlen Vizenfirthe.Series: From the Lost Travelers’ Tour Guide. ![]() People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction!. ![]()
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