Karate Masters vs the Invaders From Outer Space
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A novelette of 13,000 words in the Antryg Windrose series. Exiled wizard Antryg Windrose and his computer tech partner Joanna Sheraton take part - with other students at their dojo - as extras in a low-budget martial arts movie. But while filming in the Jojave Desert, it becomes obvious that something or someone from another dimension is out to kill off everybody in the project. Antryg must use all his powers to figure out what's behind this and who is really the target of the attack - BEFORE his own dojo-mates panic and decide he's to blame.
Barbara Hambly
Since her first published fantasy in 1982 - The Time of the Dark - Barbara Hambly has touched most of the bases in genre fiction. She has written mysteries, horror, mainstream historicals, graphic novels, sword-and-sorcery fantasy, romances, and Saturday Morning Cartoons. Born and raised in Southern California, she attended the University of California, Riverside, and spent one year at the University of Bordeaux, France. She married science fiction author George Alec Effinger, and lived part-time in New Orleans for a number of years. In her work as a novelist, she currently concentrates on horror (the Don Simon Ysidro vampire series) and historical whodunnits, the well-reviewed Benjamin January novels, though she has also written another historical whodunnit series under the name of Barbara Hamilton.Professor Hambly also teaches History part-time, paints, dances, and trains in martial arts. Follow her on Facebook, and on her blog at livejournal.com.Now a widow, she shares a house in Los Angeles with several small carnivores.
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Karate Masters vs the Invaders From Outer Space - Barbara Hambly
KARATE MASTERS
VS. THE INVADERS FROM OUTER SPACE
By
Barbara Hambly
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Copyright 2017 Barbara Hambly
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Karate Masters Vs. The Invaders from Outer Space
About the Author
KARATE MASTERS
VS. THE INVADERS FROM OUTER SPACE
Oh, Dirk,
whispered Joanna Sheraton, oh, my God, do you know what it’s like for a woman to hunger for real meat, as I’ve hungered for yours?
Soft reflections of flame from the bedroom fireplace slid over the black satin of the waterbed’s sheets, the polished carving of the headboard… the man’s blonde hair, chiseled muscle, and gold neck-chains. The scent of incense made her giddy.
Give it to me… I’m begging you, Dirk. Give it to me hard…
"Do people in this universe really say that in bed?" Antryg Windrose, lurking on the sidelines, sunk his voice down under Angel Valentine’s passionate contralto as she repeated – to Dirk (whose real name was Wally Bickle) – Joanna’s sotto voce prompts.
They do if you pay them,
responded Matt Davidson, part-owner of the North Hollywood residence in which this tender encounter was taking place. The master bedroom of the ranch-style home was roughly the size of a small restaurant, which was fortunate, considering the amount of camera equipment and lights currently crammed into it. Through an archway in a tiled alcove, a Jacuzzi bubbled seductively, and in the yard beyond the artfully-curtained sliding doors, subdued floodlights outlined groves of bamboo and hibiscus.
They’d have to pay me an awful lot,
grumbled Joanna, and Bill Podmore – director, producer, and writer of Dragon Fist – gestured impatiently for everyone to be quiet.
Dirk!
gasped Angel realistically, as those sinewy arms clasped the creamy amplitude of her negligeéd charms. "Oh, my God, DIRK—!"
Right on cue, ninja came slashing through the curtains from the yard.
Ed Ashmead, although he had only recently attained second kyu, led the pack owing to the fact that he was the most physically impressive man in the dojo: not quite as tall as Antryg at six feet two, he was heavily muscled and frighteningly tattooed. In a black gi, with his graying hair dyed black at Bill Podmore’s insistence (You can’t have a forty-year-old old ninja!
Fuck you, Bill…
), and his blue eyes gleaming through the eye-holes in a mask and swinging a katana in one hand and a wakazashi in the other, he looked every inch a villainous henchman.
Of the two actual black-belts who followed him – Daryl Winchester and Lee Martinez – neither was as scary-looking, and Joanna, backing behind the cameras with her prompt-script and first-aid kit, figured the audience probably wouldn’t notice the difference in technique. The other two brown-belts who constituted the Second Wave, goldenly handsome Shane Grell and prematurely balding Curtis Fennel (known in the dojo as Spacecookie), were overacting terribly and although their swords were, of course, unsharpened, Joanna braced herself to take care of at least a couple of injuries in the ensuing fight.
Antryg, ridiculously tall and gawky with a pair of fearsome-looking outer-space goggles over his mask to conceal his glasses, brought up the rear.
Angel screamed in terror, Daryl and Lee leaped up onto the waterbed in a great flashing of sword-blades (and an amazing demonstration of balance), and Bill Podmore yelled Great! Fantastic!
and made everybody go back out into the garden and attack again.
And again.
Joanna had learned, when green-belt Matt had propositioned half the senior iaido class at the Genki-do dojo into being in his friend Bill’s karate movie,
that filming a movie – even a direct-to-video schlockfest – entailed an awful lot of going back out into