The Blue Lamp:

REVIEWS

Heroic Fantasy Quarterly:
"Adventure fiction in the classic style, Zoltan’s tale will take you from the mundane and into a world of magic and mystery not seen since the glory days of the pulps."

Black Gate Magazine:
"A catman, a mothwoman, and an eerie blue lamp figure in Robert Zoltan’s very fun and self-illustrated (well one picture anyway) “The Blue Lamp.” For any fan of S&S those three things should be enough to make you read the story. We know what we like and when we seen it we flock to it like, well, moths. "For those wanting to know more it’s simple: Two friends, a tattoo-covered barbarian called Blue and the poet (and master swordsman) Dareon Vin get into a fight. Wandering into the big city by himself, Blue ends up looking into the wrong magic blue lamp. When Dareon goes out to find him unexpected things start to happen. The two physically and temperamentally mismatched heroes bring to mind a certain pair from classic S&S but only enough to be good fun, and not enough to reek of thievery."

Tangent Online Review Magazine
"...an action packed sword and sorcery tale, needing only a premise and an enemy to defeat in order to accomplish its goal. To this end the prose, the dialogue, and characters do their part smoothly and come together to give the lesson that two swords are always better than one."

 

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TALES OF TOMORROW GIRL: Retro Science Fiction Adventures of Mystery and Romance

Six of my early short science fiction tales with a retro flair, often featuring a mysterious female time agent. These stories deal with romance, mystery, time travel and other dimensions. This first volume includes: Tomorrow Girl, Lazarus Come Forth, The Never Men, Martian Cocktail, The Strand and Way Station. (see story descriptions below). Stories are currently available exclusively for Amazon Kindle. For a PDF version of Tales of Tomorrow Girl, contact Robert by email with your request.

 

The Blue Lamp

 

A thrilling short story of those two adventurers, poet swordsman Dareon Vin, and his companion, the Indari warrior known as Blue. When Blue goes missing in the city of Merth for two days (a difficult feat, when you’re six-and-a-half feet tall and covered in blue tattoos), Dareon’s search for his friend leads him to Ravel’s Exquisite Emporium, where he becomes prey to an unusual predatory salesman. Meanwhile, Blue fights for his life and perhaps his very soul, with the aid of Malika, a dancer from Khulan, against an otherworldly foe that is no less than omnipotent.

 

Length: 8463 words         Price: $.99

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Tales of Tomorrow Girl

 

Six short science fiction tales with a retro flair, often featuring a mysterious female time agent. These stories deal with romance, mystery, time travel and other dimensions. This first volume includes: Tomorrow Girl, Lazarus Come Forth, The Never Men, Martian Cocktail, The Strand and Way Station.

 

Length: 34,835 words         Price: $2.99

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Tomorrow Girl

 

Everything in Stella's life was going perfectly. Except for the strange dreams, the weird accidents, the premonitions and the voices in her head. Plus she was single and couldn't seem to meet a decent man in all of Los Angeles. You would think a rising Hollywood starlet in 1962 wouldn't have such trouble! When two opposing Hollywood agents appear out of nowhere, aggressively seeking her as their client, her troubles multiply...as do the latent psychic powers within her.

 

Length: 10,197 words         Price: $.99

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Lazarus, Come Forth!

 

The assistant to a controversial scientist is called to his former employer's laboratory to witness the testing of a device, which is supposed to act as a lens to see into another dimension. The experiment proves too successful.

 

Length: 4466 words         Price: $.99

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The Never Men

 

On a misty northwestern night, a comic book writer on tour for his latest book, The Never Men, encounters a mysterious woman and a horribly familiar stranger who reveal that life can imitate art in the most fantastic and dangerous manner imaginable.

 

Length: 8367 words         Price: $.99

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Martian Cocktail

 

Unbeknownst to each other, agent Max Bliss and Telepath Stellara Inanna are sent from 31st Century Mars by two different organizations to seek an arcane artifact in 1960's San Francisco. Max and Stella have never mixed. They're about to, like gin and tonic...or nitro and glycerin.

 

Length: 3936 words         Price: $.99

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The Strand

 

A dimensional traveler seeks to rescue his one true love who is trapped on an invaded world by using a device which connects his universe to hers by a single strand.

 

Length: 2779 words         Price: $.99

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Way Station

 

During a mundane exploration of his new neighborhood, a young man unexpectedly becomes the pivotal player in a galactic conflict.

 

Length: 4090 words         Price: $.99

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