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Henchman: Your unquestioning loyalty earns you a pair of "Thrilling Tales" Bookmarks.
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Faithful Robot Companion: As a devoted sidekick, you get 1 copy (unsigned) of "Trapped in the Tower of the Brain Thieves".
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Demented Research Technician: You'll work your way up the ranks of mad science armed with an 18x24" archival art print (pictured). It'll look pretty swell in your lab.
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Rocket Racer: You can win all of the rallies and races in Retropolis while wearing the exclusive "Toaster With TWO BRAINS" t-shirt (pictured). It reads: "I Injected Life into the Toaster With TWO BRAINS".
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Space Pirate: Your mission: steal whatever you find in space. Your reward: a *signed* 18x24" archival art print and an exclusive "Toaster With TWO BRAINS" t-shirt.
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Absolutely Mad Scientist: This is it. You get it all: a signed copy of "Trapped in the Tower of the Brain Thieves", a pair of "Thrilling Tales" bookmarks, a signed 18x24" archival art print, and an exclusive "Toaster With TWO BRAINS" t-shirt. MUAHAHAHAHA!
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I was born about a week after a B-47 bomber accidentally dropped an atom bomb on Mars Bluff, South Carolina. No one told me about it at the time. This is a true story but it has no bearing on much of anything except that, statistically, I'm older than you are.
I was born in Southern California and that's where I grew up. I thought I was going to be a writer - but I ended up spending so much time making pictures that by the middle 1970's I just threw up my hands and accepted my fate. For the rest of the 70's I did some illustration for role playing games and small press magazines; later on, for small presses and some equally small record labels, plus a bunch of paintings.
I moved on to computers when they started to get interesting - that would have been 1987 - and began to freelance in the computer games business. A friend and I founded a game company. When it sank, I worked as an artist and art director for a long series of development houses. Many of them also sank.
Eventually, I swam to shore. I fled to a state where as far as I know there are no game companies*. Heck, there isn't even a Starbucks for thirty miles. So I figure I'm home. After all the years I spent working on Other Peoples' Dreams, I do my best to avoid it any more. Because if I don't work on my own dreams, well, nobody else is going to. And that's how I got here.
* This is the only way in which my life parallels the life of Odysseus**, who ended his Odyssey by carrying an oar inland until somebody asked him "Hey! What's that thing you're carrying?", after which he built his new house and lived out the rest of his uneventful days.
** I know, there was that Cyclops, too, but I don't think that one counts***.
*** Not higher than "one", anyway. See what I mean?
Awesome! I've always loved your work and it's great to see this thing get funded. :)
Woot! Way to go, Bradley! Congrats!
Thanks!
Congrats on the funding!
Ha! And thanks!
Yaaay Tallie!
My brother discovered this site and let me in on this not-so-closely-held secret, incredibly fascinating, absolutely-unlooked-for BONANZA for those of us who have always admired the unbridled enthusiasm of those long lost tales of Science Future from the early 20th century.
Bradley Schenk's tales are sure to enthrall not only the older crowd, but anyone who has role played fantastic worlds and characters--or simply read about them--and longed to bring that sense of wonder into a new medium.
Thank you, Bradley. I never thought to see such as you have made out here on the Ole' Wide Web!
I have always loved the Retropolis web site and I'm thrilled to support this project! Retrolpolis was inspirational when we were developing the look and feel of our Alien Frontiers boardgame (also gathering funds here on Kickstarter) so I'm excited to give a little back as a Two Brains Backer!
I endorse this product.
-G.
I love this.