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When Electric Lit asked me to write an introduction to my grandfather’s story “The General Zapped an Angel” I was thrilled. I had long fantasized about a day when I would be able to sit down at the computer and write an introduction to a work by either my feminist mother [Erica Jong] or my communist grandfather but it turns out writing these introductions is a lot harder than it looks when one gets into a weird and horrible meditation on the past. I loved my grandfather and hated him, loved his work and felt it took him away from us. I was in awe of his talent and enraged towards it, too. Penance is your field, gentlemen,” said General Drummond. “I have the problem of a war, the press, and this body.”

The Mouse” - 5 - My favorite story in the collection: A group of small, densely heavy aliens come to Earth and modify a mouse. The mouse gains consciousness and self-awareness. The mouse collects data for the alien beings, but soon learns that self-awareness can be a dolorous experience, especially when you are the only one of your kind.

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The story of SDF Macross starts when an interstellar war erupts between humanity and the Zentradi, a space-faring race of warrior giants. While at first there seems to be very little in common with the two races, it is eventually revealed that both are genetically amazingly similar. In a final bombshell revelation it is found out that both the humans and the Zentradi were created in the distant past by an older race of humanoid aliens known as Protoculture: the Zentradi were created for war, humans for preserving culture. In Evangelion, Second Impact is prominently seen from the moon. Also, in a reversal of positions, the Sun is shown with the crescent moon under it, and Earth below, during Third Impact. In Episode 04, after exiting the bus, Shinji rests by a statue of Jizo-san, the patron deity of travelers and children. This shot is apparently a tribute to a similar shot from Miyazaki's My Neighbor Totoro. Considering that Anno has worked as an animator on Miyazaki's Nausicaä and that he's made references to Ghibli films before Evangelion, this comparison doesn't seem too far-fetched. Maybe we don’t explain it, sir. I mean, there it is. It happened. The damn thing’s dead, isn’t it? Let’s bury it. Isn’t that what a soldier does—buries his dead, tightens his belt a notch, and goes on from there?”

PDF / EPUB File Name: The_General_Zapped_an_Angel__New_Stories_o_-_Howard_Fast.pdf, The_General_Zapped_an_Angel__New_Stories_o_-_Howard_Fast.epub Devilman, a manga series by Go Nagai, features a similar apocalyptic ending. Yoshiyuki Sadamoto said in an interview published in the Deluxe Edition of Der Mond [1] that both he and Hideaki Anno were influenced by Go Nagai and that they wanted an ending similar to that of Devilman. The TV ending of Evangelion also contains a major reference to Ideon. The final "Congratulations!" scene is similar to the very ending of Be Invoked, in which the souls of all the characters are flying across space and the children start singing "Happy Birthday to You" to Messiah, who's leading them towards an implied rebirth.The second episode of the 2007 TV series Masters of Science Fiction, "The Awakening", was adapted from the title story of this book. The Blue Water Crystal from Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water is a blue octahedron, although more elongated in shape than Ramiel. This plot point is mirrored in Evangelion: humans and Angels differ in form, abilities and "matter composition", but are genetically fundamentally similar. While the common cosmic origin of the two races is only hinted at in the show itself, it is stated flat-out in the Classified Information files found within the video game Neon Genesis Evangelion 2. In the files the progenitor aliens are referred to as the First Ancestral Race. The cast of Oniisama E also includes characters named "Rei Asaka" aka "Hana no Saint Juste" (Saint Juste of the Flowers), and "Kaworu Orihara" aka "Kaworu no Kimi" (Prince Kaworu). Now just what the hell do you mean, you can’t find the wounds? I don’t miss. If I shot it, I shot it.”

Well,” Kelly answered, “I don’t quite know how to answer that, sir. An angel is an angel. One of God’s angels, sir.” It is clear that since Nausicaa, the movie, as well as Miyazaki’s other works have influenced Anno from the time he began directing (see the articles on My Neighbor Totoro and Visual Motif: Blue Octahedrons (Nadia, Laputa and 2001) for further information). Since his time with Miyazaki, Anno has been known to criticize Studio Ghibli’s later works saying that they don’t have the “’blood” that is surely flowing through everyone,” according to an essay he wrote in the Ghibli Ippai Liner Notes. There have even been claims such as in the Evangelion Kaibunsho that Miyazaki and Anno actually hate each other, though this has been refuted. However; it is important to note that in the same essay mentioned above, Anno does say that he considers Miyazaki along with Ichirou Itano to be his teachers, not only on the technical aspects of animation, but also on how to be a filmmaker. Anno says that, “[m]y posture on filmmaking is nothing more than an attempt to hang on to the things I learned from the two of them.” So while there is probably some philosophical disagreement between the two in regards to filmmaking, it is clear that working on Nausicaa did influence him later on as a director. Get these two mothers the hell out of here, and when you assign a detail to me, I want men, not wet-nosed kids.” Then he surveyed the angel, and even he was impressed. In short (heh), "The Vision of Milty Boil" is so crazy it just might work!—although I did have a hard time believing that a single New York City landlord, even one as motivated as Boil, could have this sort of outsized (heh) influence on human evolution.General Drummond, sir, there’s a committee of chaplains, sir, who insist on seeing you, and they’re very up tight about something, and I know how you feel about chaplains, but this seems to be something special, and I think you ought to see them.” The Wound” - 4 - Another favorite from the collection, but with a weak build up: A businessman is given the opportunity to invest in a new exciting way to extract oil from the planet by using nuclear bombs. He weighs the pros and cons and finally decides that the bombs being used against Mother Earth rather than against other humans is a good thing. What could go wrong? Just how the hell do you know?” demanded General Drummond, loosening his sidearm. “That thing has the strength of a bulldozer.” As a somewhat bizarre ending note, it has been pointed out that the helmet of Dave Bowman's space suit bears some resemblance to Shamshel's head. The organisation SHADO which Straker commands is a clandestine with an underground HQ disguised beneath a film studio. Much of the show focuses on Straker's running of SHADO, as task which he is utterly devoted to, to the exclusion of his personal life.

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