Doc Sidhe

DOC SIDHE

Creator: Aaron Allston

Characters

Doctor Desmond MeqqRee

Jean-Pierre Lamignac

Alastair Kornback

Noriko Nomura

Harris Greene

Gabriele Donohue

Ixyail del Valle (Ish)

Zeb Watson

Eight-Finger Tom (safecracker)

Joseph (unfinished clay man)

Angus Powrie (Blackletter’s lieutenant)

The Golden Man/Changeling (Blackletter’s son?)

Duncan Blackletter (Mastermind of first novel)

Lt. Gaul Athelatane (Fair world guard – police official)

Our world is the Grim World, the alternate world is the Fair world (where once our fairy tales came from); in this Fair world magic still exist, as do non-humans. Doctor Desmond MeqqRee runs the Sidhe Foundations, and his friends call him Doc. He designs building and bridges, and fights crime with his aides. He is the Fair world’s Doc Savage; in this case he’s Doc Sidhe (pronounced Doc She).

         Doc is tall, broad shouldered, lean, and moves with the grace of a dancer. He wore loose-fitting dark slacks tucked into high leather boots, and bundled into a waist-length yellow leather coat over a white shirt. His shoulder-length hair is pure white. He has pointed ears. He is, of course, the universe’s greatest champion of justice and thwarter of evildoers.

         Ixyail del Valle: Ish is Doc’s lover. She’s small and panther-ish, with South American looks.

Harris Greene is a kick boxer, trained in tae kwon do. The night he loses his latest fight his manager drops him, then his girlfriend Gaby Donohue dumps him. He gets drunk and goes to make up with her, when he sees men abducting her. He follows and attacks the men giving Gaby time to escape, and then he finds himself in an alternate world.

Zeb Watson is black, an expert in martial arts, and trainer for kick boxers. He joins Doc Sidhe’s aides in the second story.

Gaby Donohue is gifted, and Duncan Blackletter wants to study her. He needs to take her to the Fair world to do that. But then Harris Greene and his new friend, Doc shows up to rescue her again, and she ends up in the Fair world where strangely she feels at home.

Jean-Pierre Lamignac is an elf prince turned mercenary, and aide of Doc Sidhe.

Noriko Nomura is a master of martial arts, and aide of Doc Sidhe.

Doctor Alastair Kornbock, though elderly, is a surgical wizard and world-class marksman, and aide of Doc Sidhe.

There had been other aides, but they perished in previous battles. Some had died at the hands of Joseph, the unfinished clay man. But now Joseph works with Doc Sidhe to right wrongs.

Two novels have been published.

“Doc Sidhe” (1995), BAEN Books

“Sidhe-Devil” (2001) BAEN Books

        

Cobalt

COBALT

Creator: CG Blade

Characters

Petra Kayden Dace

General James Cooper

Dreama Nelson

Raymond Nelson

Helen Long

Mark Sheehan

Dave Keller

Ter

Army 1^st Lieutenant Petra Kayden Dace is terminally injured in a combat mission, and her father’s best friend, General James Cooper, head of NIB has his lab synthesize her DNA to replicate her memory cells within the DNA, and grow a new body with the capability of using her mind like a computer. She trains her body to super human abilities, making her a formidable spy. She can instantly be covered in a metal suit of armor when fighting.

            Stepping out of the buggy she quickly morphed into her blue Army Dress uniform and held her Officer’s Cap in her hand., standing on the occupant’s driveway. Petra’s Dress Blue uniform consisted of a dark blue jacket top with matching skirt and white shirt and black tie. Gold pin striping circled the ends of her long dark sleeves. Her medals  were proudly pinned to her chest and her cap was layered with gold piping at the bottom. Her rank insignia shone protruding from her cap and shoulders.. Rounding out the ensemble were shiny black piping up the back of her legs.

            Petra stepped out from behind the podium and from the toes up changed into the most magnificent glowing red white and blue crisscrossed striped armor. Gold stars evenly spaced across her body, stretching diagonally starting at her left shin and moving up to her right shoulder, represented the original thirteen colonies. Thirteen patriotic colored stripes intersected the opposite diagonal direction of the stars going from her right shin to her left shoulder. The 1775 Cavalry Sword she was holding in her right hand emitted red white and blue flames as well as her now matching hair lying on her shoulders. Her irises were lit up like patriotic bull’s eyes.

            General James Cooper was her father’s friend and head of NIB, the agency that replaced all the other letter organizations like the F.B.I., etc. His labs brought Petra back to life with a new body.

         Raymond Nelson is the industrialist thought to be hind all the mind control with his deviltry.

         Dreama Nelson, daughter of Raymond, was a 5-year-old child genius, and her discoveries built the coming technologies of 2070.

         Helen Long, Mark Sheehan, and Dave Keller are the new tri-presidents, though Helen is the guiding power behind the presidency.

         Ter (Terprise) is the android device within Petra that gives her brain instant knowledge and combat skills and weaponry. Ter and Petra carry on a constant commentary throughout the story, with some humor.

         People are discovered with implants in their brains that were likely implanted in a fly vaccine. The implant controls their thoughts and actions. As NIB investigates, they discover all Americans that received the shot have the implant. Petra is attacked by a seven foot tall man, but when she beats him discovers he is a robot, now other robotic replacement people start showing up. Petra is going to have her work cut out for her.

         There are at least three novel in the Trinity series, which will feature Petra in the lead or as secondary character.

1       Cobalt (Pseudosynth Press) 2015

2         Crimson (Pseudosynth Press) 2016

3           Emerald (Pseudosynth Press) 2016

Captain Steve Danger

Captain Steve Danger

Creator: Tom Johnson

Characters

Captain Steve Danger

Commander Scott Perry

Professor Kela Kleeli

Lieutenant Cathy Rogers (pictured above)

Most of Captain Danger’s universe is filled with the race of man, but they have encountered numerous alien races, many of which now belong to the Allied Command; the best of the fighter pilots recruited into the Space Rangers.

The rank structure within the Space Rangers: Pilots hold the rank of Captain. Copilots hold the rank of Lieutenant – though sometimes they might be Captains. Enlisted ranks are Privates for workers, and Sergeants for non-commissioned officers and the head of departments. There may occasionally be a Corporal bucking for promotion to Sergeant. Only commissioned officers are given ships. The Silver Raptors are powered by Null Drive engines, which propels through space at faster than light (FTL) speed.

Headquarters of Space Rangers is on The Crescent Moon, hidden somewhere within an asteroid belt. Their ships are Silver Raptors, each with its own designation.

Commander: Scott Perry’s ship designation is unknown. The gutsy old pilot can usually be seen in his dress uniform of black boots, blue pants, light blue tunics, and a waist-cut blue jacket zipped to the stiff collars. A black leather belt stretched around his thick waist, with a large silver belt buckle carrying the fixed images of twin blaster pistols. On his waist hang a pair of deadly blasters. On his broad shoulders are the military braids of his rank, and on his left breast pocket was the insignia of the Space Patrol, which he commanded. Over his shoulders was wrapped a short, white cape, trimmed in black and gold, and his many military medals covered his chest.

Captain Steve Danger’s ship designation is SR#1. He is tall and extremely handsome, and ruggedly built with soft blonde hair and flake gold eyes. Having visited the worlds of too many suns bronzed his skin. His Ranger uniform is similar to the Commander’s, except he has gray pants and jacket, and light blue tunics On his right shoulder was a patch with his ship number, “1”

Professor Kela Kleeli is a Taegu-ma insect woman. She is also the adoptive mother of Captain Danger. She resembled a deadly preying mantis.

Lieutenant Cathy Rogers is a fantastic, statuesque, beautiful woman, with long jet-black hair, and bright blue eyes. However, she can change her appearance at a moment’s notice with wigs and different color eye lenses. Cathy looks and functions like a human female, but stronger, faster, and nearly invulnerable. She is a robot, cool and emotionless, except when it comes to Steve Danger. She has a huge crush on her superior officer, and very jealous of him, though will quickly deny it.

Alien Races

Jaspas – a race that evolved from cats, from the Jaspel star system.

Taegu-ma - a race that evolved from insects, and have the appearance of a preying mantis.

Zimco Robots – an android race, but their world was destroyed and few still exist.

Trangonadans – a race of humanoids, not quite human, but can almost pass for them.

Jareems – This is another humanoid race, also not quite human.

Giacodon – a race evolved from lizards, with long tails and three eyes.

Torabon – a race of 3-foot tall creatures with blue fur from Torabonaborgugi star system. They usually work at manual labor.

Pridonians – 5-foot tall, purple-skinned humanoids, most work as space sailors because they are at home in zero gravity.

Fadashka – an asexual race, neither male nor female, with pale yellow skin containing a metallic sheen.

Deben-4 Robots – a renegade race of robots, once built by man, now built by robots, not yet in the Empire, but wish to join.

There are many races yet discovered. Most of the space pirates that prey upon the weak are humans, though sometimes a rogue alien will appear. As with the different races, there are still many unexplored worlds and galaxies in the far reaches of the universe. Some with binary star systems, some with giant stars, dwarf stars, red suns, orange suns, and even some ice planets without a sun.

There are three stories in the by the creator, though several other stories have been written by other authors.

“Calling Captain Danger” by Tom Johnson (ALIEN WORLDS)

“The Trillig From Marrowgaz” by K.G. McAbee (Startling Stories #2)                     

“Pandora Spoxx” by Ralph E. Horner (Startling Stories #3)                 

“Blood And Iron” by Wayne Skiver (Startling Stories #4)                  

“Terror From Beyond” by Tom Johnson (ALIEN WORLDS) 

“The Space Raiders” by Tom Johnson (ALIEN WORLDS)