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Curved Space: The Adventures of Stella Star
CURVED SPACE - THE ADVENTURES OF STELLA STAR heralds the return of famed cult space heroine, Stella Star, with nine all-new adventures from an international field of the brightest new writing talent in the universe today! With amazing cover and interior art by acclaimed fantasy artist Robin Grenville-Evans and forewords from both STARCRASH writer/director Luigi Cozzi and Caroline ("Stella Star") Munro, CURVED SPACE - THE ADVENTURES OF STELLA STAR is the cult sci-fi literary event of this, or any other, millennium!Featuring Stories Cozzi (Italy - Writer/director - STARCRASH, CONTAMINATION and HERCULES)Tom Berdinski (USA - Writer/director - ITALIAN ZOMBIE MOVIE, Parts 1 and 2)Scott Brents (USA - Author/artist - 365 SCARY STORIES, THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF DEMONS AND DEMONOLOGY and FURTHER EXCURSIONS INTO OBLIVION)Richard Dean (USA - Author - COLONY, INHABITED, FINAL DEATH and LEECH)Robin Grenville-Evans (UK - Artist, cartoonist - "Young Doctors in Space" for Starburst magazine and "Lavinia Laserblast" for the Evening Times) Mark Gascoigne (UK - STARCRASH archivist, webmaster of "The Haunted Stars")Glen Alan Hamilton (USA - Author - Featured in PEEP SHOW, TRIP THE LIGHT HORRIFIC, CHIMERAWORLD, SBD, NEVERWORLDS and BRUTARIAN)Forewords Cozzi Caroline Munro (UK - Actor - STARCRASH, THE SPY WHO LOVED ME, THE GOLDEN VOYAGE OF SINBAD and CAPTAIN VAMPIRE HUNTER)Edited Dean
270 pages, Paperback
First published July 30, 2010
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November 24, 2014
This review originally appeared in the July 2012 edition of the Concordian.
Curved Space: The Adventures of Stella Star, an oddity from small press publisher Dark League Press, reveals that I am far from being alone in my love for Luigi Cozzi’s Star Crash.
“Wait a minute, Chad,” you ask, “what is a Luigi Cozzi’s Star Crash?”
For those of you that do not know (i.e. all of you) Star Crash is an intoxicatingly dopey Italian knock off of Star Wars, written and directed by Luigi Cozzi.
The movie came out at some point during 1978, or 1979, and if you were of the right age, then you just might have left the movie theater thinking that the colorful adventures of the space bikini wearing Stella Star was the greatest thing since Star Wars. If you were not of the right age, then you were probably asking the theater manager for your money back.
I freely admit that Star Crash is not what many (or any) would consider a good movie. But what makes it so much fun for its fans is the obvious love that Luigi Cozzi has for the science fiction genre. Star Crash is so much more than just a rip off of Star Wars. It is also an entertaining homage to the films of Ray Harryhausen, to the serials of Flash Gordon, and, most obviously, Roger Vadim’s Barbarella.
But Cozzi’s love is hard to find in most of the stories compiled by editor Richard Dean. Far too often the stories in Curved Space: The Adventures of Stella Star mock and ridicule the very things that make the wild and wacky movie so much fun to watch.
There are precious few stories that are fun to read. The fun ones have Stella battling a revenge seeking Amazon Queen in zero gravity, fighting of a zombie horde in another, and, in the collection’s darkest yarn, seeking revenge for the brutal slaying of her beloved Prince Simon.
But none of the above mentioned stories are fun enough, or well written enough, to make the snide forays into postmodern irony by the other writers worth suffering through. You see, a young and, at the time, unknown David Hasselhoff played Prince Simon. So the book is stuffed with Knight Rider and Baywatch gags. So many, in fact, that they cease being funny and just become depressing and distracting.
Very few people remember Star Crash fondly. I cannot recommend this book to them, or to anyone.
Curved Space: The Adventures of Stella Star, an oddity from small press publisher Dark League Press, reveals that I am far from being alone in my love for Luigi Cozzi’s Star Crash.
“Wait a minute, Chad,” you ask, “what is a Luigi Cozzi’s Star Crash?”
For those of you that do not know (i.e. all of you) Star Crash is an intoxicatingly dopey Italian knock off of Star Wars, written and directed by Luigi Cozzi.
The movie came out at some point during 1978, or 1979, and if you were of the right age, then you just might have left the movie theater thinking that the colorful adventures of the space bikini wearing Stella Star was the greatest thing since Star Wars. If you were not of the right age, then you were probably asking the theater manager for your money back.
I freely admit that Star Crash is not what many (or any) would consider a good movie. But what makes it so much fun for its fans is the obvious love that Luigi Cozzi has for the science fiction genre. Star Crash is so much more than just a rip off of Star Wars. It is also an entertaining homage to the films of Ray Harryhausen, to the serials of Flash Gordon, and, most obviously, Roger Vadim’s Barbarella.
But Cozzi’s love is hard to find in most of the stories compiled by editor Richard Dean. Far too often the stories in Curved Space: The Adventures of Stella Star mock and ridicule the very things that make the wild and wacky movie so much fun to watch.
There are precious few stories that are fun to read. The fun ones have Stella battling a revenge seeking Amazon Queen in zero gravity, fighting of a zombie horde in another, and, in the collection’s darkest yarn, seeking revenge for the brutal slaying of her beloved Prince Simon.
But none of the above mentioned stories are fun enough, or well written enough, to make the snide forays into postmodern irony by the other writers worth suffering through. You see, a young and, at the time, unknown David Hasselhoff played Prince Simon. So the book is stuffed with Knight Rider and Baywatch gags. So many, in fact, that they cease being funny and just become depressing and distracting.
Very few people remember Star Crash fondly. I cannot recommend this book to them, or to anyone.
September 13, 2013
This is a must for Stella Star fans, not so much for readers not familiar with the movie. The short stories are entertaining but there are quite a few editing problems (misspelling, punctuation, word spacing, etc.). Nothing so terrible that it detracts from fun and frills of the Stella-verse.
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