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Doomsday Warrior #18
American Dream Machine
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August 9, 2026
The Doomsday Warrior series was a post-apocalyptic men's adventure series that ran for nineteen volumes from 1984 - 1991. The first four books were collaborations between Jan Stacy and Ryder Syvertsen (hence the pseudonym), and the other fifteen were written by Syverstsen alone. The series begins a hundred years or so in the future, after Russia has defeated the US and now occupies it. Ted Rockson is the leader of a secret loose resistance consortium. This penultimate eighteenth volume doesn't pay much attention to the previous continuity or characters. It does follow the formulaic pattern which ruled the series, however. The previous book, America's Sword, ended with some cliffhangers, but this one starts with "three years later..." The Russians have negotiated a peace and evacuated the U.S. Rock gets a message from his old pal Archer, who recently left Century City and moved into a bowling alley (!?) and new mutant ally Zydeco Realness (!?) They head for the headquarters of the Techno-survivors (?), who have the Dream Machine. After sex with some green girls (?), Ted climbs in the machine and is transported to the early 1980s. Or is it all a dream, like volume ten (?) and they're on Venus and Kim is there and sex ensues. They go to planet Esmerelda where Ted is to be a gladiator, and then the Glowers show up with a spaceship made out of snow that floats Ted and team back to Century City. Kim and Rona, his two girlfriends from prior volumes, are waiting for him and say they've gotten over their differences and demonstrate by giving him a heroic welcome. Gee, it was a dream (maybe) and the Glowers and Team Rock get together to put Ted's soul back in his body. The Glowers pop in to say Killov is still alive and only Ted can stop him. What's that, you say? The summary makes no sense? Neither does the novel, that's the point, so we're ready for the final battle and we're ready for volume nineteen... It was meant to be a very patriotic series, typical for the Zebra men's adventure line in the '80s, with non-stop action, cartoon plots, and very conservative political views. It started as a fun series (if you didn't expect too much) but got sillier and sillier and less cohesive as time went on.
November 5, 2019
Average apocalyptic adventure story. Russian has taken over America after WWIII. Recommended
December 2, 2015
This book seemed more like a random filler than anything.
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