Roger M. Wilcox's old stories

• Gaea's Rising is a novelette I wrote during my Glory Days as a graduate student, based on a dream I had that featured the word "Swazibots" and a small robotic unicorn.  For the morbidly curious among you who've ever played the Champions® role-playing game, the main character's capabilities and weaknesses are also written up in Unic's character sheet for 5th Edition HERO System™ (Champions®).
• Several of my old stories are about characters I or my friends created in the Champions® super-hero role playing game.  These include:
  • Tracer: I created the character in 1981, wrote the novelette in 1982, and rewrote it in 1985.  I liked the character so much, I now use the name "tracer" as my favorite on-line nickname.  See also Tracer's character sheet for 5th Edition HERO System™ (Champions®).
  • Infra Man!: I created the character way back in my youth (1973 or thereabouts), and wrote this tongue-in-cheek novelette in 1984.  The names "Mor Pay" and "Law Rox" that appear briefly in this story are inside references to characters created by Ramin Shokrizade.  See also Infra Man's character sheet and Infra Boy's character sheet.
  • Mauler was a novelette I wrote in 1983, featuring 3 characters (Mauler, Brick One, and The Scientist) created by Michael Gersten.  See also Mauler's character sheet.
  • Brick One!, written in 1986, overlapped with Mauler.  The name Brick One came from the fact that he was the first "brick" type Champions® character Michael Gersten had created.  I was inspired to write this story for Michael Gersten's birthday, based on his brief origin story for this character: "He just woke up one morning, and he was a brick.  And he didn't remember how he got that way."  See also Brick One's character sheet.
  • The Blue Avenger was a novelette I wrote in 1986, which overlapped with Brick One.  Blue Shooter was Michael's character; Foxbow was my own parody of the classic Champions® villain Foxbat. See also Blue Shooter's character sheet.
  • Buccaneer! was a novelette I wrote in 1984, featuring a character created by Todd Williams, which in turn was based on the ludicrous contention by Ramin Shokrizade that a photon torpedo only does as much damage as 25 sword hacks.  The story is a tongue-in-cheek mish-mosh of Star Trek and Inspector Gadget.  The fight scenes, on the other hand, are a mish-mosh of Champions® and Star Fleet Battles.

• It's Going to be a Rylon Night is a story I wrote in 1985, inspired by some characters in a Rolemaster campaign I played in.  (Rolemaster is a fantasy role-playing game.)
• ICEMAN!!, written in 1983, is my own twist on a day in the life of everybody's favorite former X-Men character, ICEMAN!!
• When I was 15, I wrote a 40-page short science fiction story called The Pentagon War.  I've toyed off-and-on with the idea of turning it into a novel ever since.  This novelization has never been completed, but I did come up with some rather long-winded sketches as to the future-history, the aliens, etc., which I've compiled in The Future History of the Pentagon War Universe.  WARNING: This article was not intended for publication, and contains major SPOILERS for The Pentagon War novel, if I ever get around to finishing it.
• Cretaceous Park (for want of a better title) is a novelette I started writing in 1993.  It is not finished and, at this rate, probably never will be.  It seeks to answer the question, "What if humans weren't the first technological species to evolve on the Earth?"
• Borf! is one of the strangest things I've ever written.  It's a script, or at least a treatment, for a sequel to the old laserdisc video game Space Ace.
• The Incredible Hero! is actually not just my story; it was a collaborative "continuing story" on Michael Gersten's old Serial Tree Board from the early 1980s, where anyone who wanted too could post another chapter or paragraph.  It's based loosely on Todd Williams' Champions® character The Incredible Hero.  There are a lot of in-jokes laced throughout this oevre, centering around the local dial-up BBSses operating in the West Los Angeles area at the time.
• Ode to Pizza is just what its title suggests.  I guess it really doesn't belong on a webpage called "old stories," but I don't have a webpage called "old poetry."

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