Duel of the Fates
An exersize in futility by Jack Mangan. Your comments are welcome!
As originally heard on the Dragon Page Wingin’ It! Podcast: Duel of the Fates assembles highly diverse, iconic combatants from across the wide universe of speculative fiction and pits them head-to-head in meaningless contests of 5 silly categories.
Hear! An exhibition duel between Darth Vader vs. Gandalf! Witness! Another exhibition of, um, something, between Molly (from Neuromancer) and Batman! Behold! The bracketed 8-character elimination tournament!
Who has the best look? Who has more Love Prowess? Who’d win in a fight? Who’d be more fun at a party?
Relive the mayhem — or experience this popular series for the first time — as author Jack Mangan examines the quirks, strengths, and weaknesses of these notable SF characters (along with one of his own). There are quite a few surprises as characters are eliminated, and ultimately, a winner is crowned Duel of the Fates champion. You’ll laugh, you’ll think, you’ll cry (if you’re a bit of a nut), you’ll disagree at times; you’ll look at these characters in new and different ways.
July 14th, 2006 at 9:25 pm
This thing was moronic. The author was trying to be ironic and cool with his zany categories, but it was a waste of time. And I know he was just trying to get a plug in, but putting his own character up against any of these classic characters and winning was lame.
February 7th, 2007 at 11:18 pm
I’m sorry but this is dire, I was bored within minutes although I did want to give it a real chance.
Could have been a good idea if the author had actually written a novel based around some universal battle arena but the monotonous Top Trumps style was crap.
January 7th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
Futile? maybe
Life changing? probably not?
But it was an entertaining & funny, with every word crafted from fine english letters, served up in bite sized chunks.
I liked it… but what do I know?