<![CDATA[The Monster Queens Of England - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[The Monster Queens Of England - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[The Monster Queens Of England]]> Look I have the heart to call a spade a spade.
I say join the club and say that THIS SITE is king of mutant queens, Jack.

You can deck me if you want.

strider_mt2k

]]> <![CDATA[The Monster Queens Of England]]> It seems so very unfair that huge organic computers shouldn't get a sex life. Why the hell not? They're giant and powerful and smart!

Mmm, giant brain... I'd hit it....

Liz Henry

]]> <![CDATA[The Monster Queens Of England]]> @m_faustus: This is kind of like the Moonchild in Morrison's The Invisibles. That wasn't a queen, though, so it doesn't count.

braak

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Lampbane

]]> <![CDATA[The Monster Queens Of England]]> @charliejane:

If it's Lovecraft, wouldn't it just be classified as "horror"?

The story is awesome, though: Sherlock Holmes combined with Lovecraft. I really wish it was longer than it was, the story's short enough to fit on a giant newspaper-design poster.

Lampbane

]]> <![CDATA[The Monster Queens Of England]]> I vote for the poor Victoria enslaved by Dracula in Kim Newman's "Anno Daracula" Still human, but barely.

wishnevsky

]]> <![CDATA[The Monster Queens Of England]]> @charliejane: It's a Sherlock Holmes riff, in his Fragile Things collection, I think. And yeah, it is.

moff

]]> <![CDATA[The Monster Queens Of England]]> @m_faustus: Is that Gaiman story fantasy or science fiction? It sounds great.

Charlie Jane Anders

]]> <![CDATA[The Monster Queens Of England]]> I think that you need to add the horrible Queen Victoria from Neil Gaiman's A Study in Emerald. She is a Great Old One in the H.P. Lovecraft tradition. She has ruled the British Empire for centuries and pumps out creepy little half-breeds with her consort, Prince Albert. And you might have guessed that it was hard to get excited for the real Victoria.

m_faustus

]]> <![CDATA[The Monster Queens Of England]]> This reminds me of a moment in the little-played video game adaptation of Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail, which features a number of farcical "trivia" questions. One asked whether a T-rex or Queen Elizabeth would win in a fight. The correct answer: It depends upon how much prey the Queen has already consumed on the day of the fight.

papercup mixmaster

]]> <![CDATA[The Monster Queens Of England]]> hahah. Mutant queens.

braak

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