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Greg Broadmore: Friend to Rayguns
Welcome to The Jewels of Apator, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer's bimonthly column on the intersection of art and the fantastic. Self-described “dinosaur nerd” and “friend to robots” Greg Broadmore recently wrote and illustrated Dr. Grordborts Contrapulatronic Dingus Directory—a serious critical study of the excesses of British colonialism. Well, okay, we’re joking. There is a certain Lord Cockswain, “a blustering great white hunter and full time retard,” doing un-PC things in goofish fashion in the back of the book, but mainly Broadmore’s latest features a stunning display of steampunkish (puckish?) rayguns. Lots and lots of rayguns. With long and lugubrious names. More »All the Best Futuristic Guns for Your Holster