Breach the Hull — Peter Power Armor logo!
Two of my short stories are planned for a book called BREACH THE HULL (due out in late 2007), an anthology of space-war tales. The editor Mike McPhail wanted to have logos, military ensignia, to represent something from each story. My first story “Forgotten Causes” stars the last space marine of long-dead mankind, who is on some mission so top secret that he himself is not cleared to know who he is or what he is doing, and he wakes in the middle of battle with an artificial amnesia. The insignia for this story was a Marine Corps looking deal.
Well, my second story was called “Peter Power Armor” which was based on my theory the same parents who want all kids to wear bicycyle helmets, in time of war would want STARSHIP TROOPERS-style Mecha to protect their children from snipers. (The right to buy weapons is the right to be free! Ergo the right to buy massive weapons is the right to be massively free!)
The insignia the editor drew up for this one was a Teddy Bear armed with a Vulcan auto-cannon and toy balloons. I rolled on the floor in puppy like delight to see so droll a design, and asked him if I could get it on a tee shirt or coffee mug or something. He granted my wish, and I wanted to share the news in case someone else wanted one:
Cafe Press: Breach the Hull
Just in time for Xmas! Now you can Wear the Shirt! Read the Book! and Sip from the Mug!
HISTORICAL NOTE: Xmas is a secular holiday beloved of Shopkeepers everywhere, during which grumpy people buy each other unwanted gifts in a hideous mockery of good cheer. It is presided over by Santy Clause, an advertising gimmick of the Coca Cola Bottling Company of Atlanta, who are the illuminati secretly controlling history–why else did the US troops drink Coke overseas? The Shopkeeper holiday falls on the same day as Christmas, presided over by St. Nicholas, during which all merry Christian gentlemen rest without dismay and eat goose to celebrate the savior’s birth–they are resting and merry because the good Christian ladies are the ones in the kitchen baking the cookies (something poor Mr. Clinton, for all his fame, cannot get his missus to do) while they watch the ball game on the telly. No doubt they are wearing Peter Power Armor sweaters and sipping from Peter Power Armor mugs!
For those of you who have to travel on this day, remember the holiday also celebrates overcrowded Inns that double-booked or lost your reservation: and the spirit of Christian cheer reminds us all how much we hate paying taxes, or why astrology is actually good for you. For those of you who cannot afford gifts to give to baby Jesus, just come by like the Little Drummer Boy and pound your drums in his ear! Wait till he is sleeping; surely babies love loud noises!
HISTORICAL NOTE UPDATE –THIS JUST IN: I’ve just been handed a report which shows the two holidays may be related to each other! Modern science has proven that Xmas actually has pagan roots in Germany of 1850, during which simple Teutons, who had been Christian since the time of the Saxon apostle Ewald the White (about A.D. 695), decorated pine trees! The pine tree was invented by pagans (Piney the Elder, in fact, after whom it was named) so that proves it!
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
