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The Thirteen Bracelets
It wasn't easy for Hari Denver to be an agent for the United States of America - that is, the states that remained in 1989. Even if he could change his appearance at will to nearly any human form. the country was at the lowest point in its New York and Washington were almost complete ruins, petty gangs and warlords controlled large areas of New Jersey and Connecticut, the west was know as "The Wasteland," the south was separated into White and Black Dixie . . . and 13 golden bracelets (slavegirls attached) were stolen from the visiting Mudir of Chad.
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First published January 1, 1974
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Robert Lory
60 books16 followersLory is the son of Edward and Dorothy Lory. He studied history and social sciences at Harpur College, Binghamton, where he graduated in 1961 with a bachelor's degree. In 1964 he completed a Famous Writers Course and in 1973 a course of the Washington School of Art . After completing his studies, he was a temporary folk singer , industrial photographer , advertising and public relations officer for an electricity and gas utility, sales promotion for a supplier and supervised publications of the Reynolds Metals Company . From 1967 he worked for the Exxon Corporation , first as editor of the Esso Manhattan , Exxon Manhattan and Esso Eastern Review magazines, then as a PR consultant for Esso Eastern Inc. Since 1968, Lory is married to Barbara Banner, with whom he has four children. Since 1971 he is a freelance writer.
1963 Lory published his first SF short story Rundown Worlds of If, more stories followed, which appeared in 1970 collected in A Harvest of Hoodwinks . In 1969 appeared a first fantasy novel, The Eyes of Bolsk, followed in 1970 by the sequel Master of the Etrax.
The nine-volume series Return of Dracula is a mixture of action thriller and horror novels tells the adventures of rich Professor Damien Harmon, telekinetic and paralyzed as a victim of a crime, now in the manner of a vigilante a vendetta against the crime, where he is the help served by the immortal Count Dracula , whom he forces to cooperate with an implanted wooden stake. Supported by Cameron Sanchez, an expert in martial arts , and shapeshifter Ktara, several super villains are being routed and their infernal plans thwarted.
Another romance cycle is Horrorscope , in which an overpowering being - demon or embodied fate - brings the zodiac signs to life and brings horrific unhappiness and death over innocent people.
Both series are according to the lexicon of horror literature , "pure Pulphorror for the mass market." Lorry's science fiction is described by John Clute as "mainly light, fantasy-driven adventure stories, unassuming but neat."
Under the publishing pseudonym Paul Edwards Lory wrote several volumes of the novel series John Eagle, Expeditor, a series of secret agent thrillers.
1963 Lory published his first SF short story Rundown Worlds of If, more stories followed, which appeared in 1970 collected in A Harvest of Hoodwinks . In 1969 appeared a first fantasy novel, The Eyes of Bolsk, followed in 1970 by the sequel Master of the Etrax.
The nine-volume series Return of Dracula is a mixture of action thriller and horror novels tells the adventures of rich Professor Damien Harmon, telekinetic and paralyzed as a victim of a crime, now in the manner of a vigilante a vendetta against the crime, where he is the help served by the immortal Count Dracula , whom he forces to cooperate with an implanted wooden stake. Supported by Cameron Sanchez, an expert in martial arts , and shapeshifter Ktara, several super villains are being routed and their infernal plans thwarted.
Another romance cycle is Horrorscope , in which an overpowering being - demon or embodied fate - brings the zodiac signs to life and brings horrific unhappiness and death over innocent people.
Both series are according to the lexicon of horror literature , "pure Pulphorror for the mass market." Lorry's science fiction is described by John Clute as "mainly light, fantasy-driven adventure stories, unassuming but neat."
Under the publishing pseudonym Paul Edwards Lory wrote several volumes of the novel series John Eagle, Expeditor, a series of secret agent thrillers.
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February 24, 2013I bought this for a song because the world conjured up on the back cover sounded intriguing and earnestly bizarre, and in both cover art and scope like John Jake's campy Black in Time. The Thirteen Bracelet's was indeed like Black in Time, in so far as they are both self-consciously racist in that way only stuff from the 70's can get away with (or not, depending on your angle).
But I was not prepared for how short and "goofy" The Thirteen Bracelet's is. It's really trying hard to be funny, and is incredibly short, and barely sketches out its ludicrous world, resorting exclusively to broad humor and lazy stereotypes disguised as lazy satire.
In this post-apocalyptic world, everyone has an opportunity to be offended: there are Allah-worshiping Mad Arabs, Right On! black militias, New Jersey Zionists (run by a Rabbi named O'Donnell who writes pornography with names like The Fudge Feeler), Hayseed bird-wranglers (?), Red Skin tollmen, Yellow Skins ping-pow players, you name it. There's a Flesher zones (full of cannibals), some kind of crazy group with depresso-rays, and a President of the United States who would be played in the movie version by Johnathan Winters doing his best Big Baby. There are jokes based around gonorrhea.
Thirteen Bracelets is more of a spy-spoof along the lines of Dean Martin's Matt Helm movies (all of which I've seen!) than a science fiction book, although the main character, Agent Hari Denver, can change his appearance and anatomy at will, which is pretty convenient (such as when he wants to grow his nose to fit in with the Jews, or have an Afro with the black nationalists- hilarious!). It's like a bad Playboy parody, full of mostly lame gags and sex and slapstick. It takes about 2 hours to read, is wretchedly dated and would probably offend somebody even though it's harmlessly retarded.
But I was not prepared for how short and "goofy" The Thirteen Bracelet's is. It's really trying hard to be funny, and is incredibly short, and barely sketches out its ludicrous world, resorting exclusively to broad humor and lazy stereotypes disguised as lazy satire.
In this post-apocalyptic world, everyone has an opportunity to be offended: there are Allah-worshiping Mad Arabs, Right On! black militias, New Jersey Zionists (run by a Rabbi named O'Donnell who writes pornography with names like The Fudge Feeler), Hayseed bird-wranglers (?), Red Skin tollmen, Yellow Skins ping-pow players, you name it. There's a Flesher zones (full of cannibals), some kind of crazy group with depresso-rays, and a President of the United States who would be played in the movie version by Johnathan Winters doing his best Big Baby. There are jokes based around gonorrhea.
Thirteen Bracelets is more of a spy-spoof along the lines of Dean Martin's Matt Helm movies (all of which I've seen!) than a science fiction book, although the main character, Agent Hari Denver, can change his appearance and anatomy at will, which is pretty convenient (such as when he wants to grow his nose to fit in with the Jews, or have an Afro with the black nationalists- hilarious!). It's like a bad Playboy parody, full of mostly lame gags and sex and slapstick. It takes about 2 hours to read, is wretchedly dated and would probably offend somebody even though it's harmlessly retarded.
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