Tag: Shelley Pallis

February 15, 2022 · 0 comments

By Shelley Pallis. And then she died. Wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey – a man in a toga who calls himself God shows up to tell Kaoru the Office Lady that she’s accidentally wandered into a spatial anomaly, and (sorry about this) she’d dead. Well, her body’s dead, his not-all-that-godlike powers couldn’t keep her from stepping into the […]

February 12, 2022 · 0 comments

By Shelley Pallis. Rushed into production in the wake of the 1976 US King Kong remake (and originally intended as a King Kong movie, before the rights proved less in the public domain than the film-makers expected), Mighty Peking Man’s original title in Chinese translates as the much simpler Ape King. And to be fair, […]

February 9, 2022 · 0 comments

By Shelley Pallis. Infinite Dendrogram is the best game ever invented, a “virtual reality massively multiplayer online game” but not a crap one like all the ones that came before. This one has got everything, starting with a 10,000-yen price point (and that’s in the year 2043, when 10,000 yen will probably barely buy you […]

August 7, 2021 · 0 comments

By Shelley Pallis. And then she woke up, and she’d been transported to the world of her favourite real-time strategy engine. These light novels don’t hang about, do they? The woman known only as BugSis confesses in a prologue that in her favourite computer game (coyly unmentioned), she always used to love playing the arachnid […]

July 29, 2021 · 0 comments

By Shelley Pallis. The trouble with Rentt Faina is that he isn’t very good at his job. He’s spent ten years wandering the ruins of a haunted dungeon, where, for reasons that defy logical explanation, a menagerie of different creatures lurk in various rooms, guarding treasure. But he’s a pretty mediocre adventurer, ever-ready to cut […]