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...victim. Vic, dressed like a Confederate soldier after Gettysburg and toting a carbine, is finally rewarded when Blood senses a female with his telepathic powers. They track her to an abandoned house and defend her against a roverpak in a boring, senseless and long drawn out shoot-out. Quilla June (Susanne Benton) then seduces Vic before he can rape her and manages to lure him to her home downunder. Quilla's community, a new Topeka, is composed of survivors convinced that America's Golden Age was in 1900 and determined to reproduce it in underground safety. Dissenters are executed...

Author: By Jefferson M. Flanders, | Title: If Dogs Run Free... | 10/23/1975 | See Source »

...miles away. This year he started from Rosario, 205 miles above the capital. For three days & nights he churned and paddled-past San Pedro, past Baradero, past Uriburu, past Campana. At each river town he was greeted with crowds eager to cheer on their beloved "Shark of Quilla Creek." At Point San Ysidro, only twelve miles from Buenos Aires, the upstream tidal current began to force him back. After two futile hours, Pedro Candioti gave up. When he was hauled out of the river he instantly fell fast asleep. Pedro was not as young as he was: he had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Shark of Quilla Creek | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

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