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Perry Rhodan (UK) #39.

Perry Rhodan (UK) #39.

In addition to modules for Twilight: 2000 and Cyberpunk, this issue contains a one-page Traveller adventure: "The Dam." The assumed moral universe feels very H. Beam Piper-ish: of course the PCs want to save the benighted villagers. The author warns: "A gun-toting answer to this situation is likely to turn a lot of living, breathing people into lifeless bodies." I'd run this adventure with two count-down clocks: a storm clock and a trust clock.

Larkin was best known for high-impact commercial illustration: think Savage Sword of Conan, dialed up to eleven. This cover is restrained, sedate even. I like to think he was having some fun, letting the goofy anatomy do the work.

Source: The Savage Art of Bob Larkin (2009).

This was considered comically fat in the 60s and 70s.

This was considered comically fat in the 60s and 70s.

Source: The Savage Art of Bob Larkin (2009).

"Return with Contract Diplomat Gerard Manley [ed: really?] to the lost decade before the exciting adventures recorded in the Windhover tapes. Recapture the intrigue, treachery, and passion of his years as Consort to Fairy Peg [ed: are you fucking kidding me?], ruler of the Ribble Galaxy, and Supreme Commander of the elite fighting force known as the Gabriel Ratchets. Follow Manley... on a voyage into the reaches of his own mind..."

A cropped version appeared later on the cover of Realms of Fantasy Magazine (December 1999).

The Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society.