[RGR] Where is Banner Coopersmith, the hero of Five Points?

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The year is 2199. Where is Banner Coopersmith, the hero of Five Points, the
scourge of the Voltrex menace?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdFfrgbyDfE

Ray Gun Revival Teaser

*News from the front - April 4th, 2199:*
> Voltrex forces launch a surprise attack on Albatross, Earth's last
> remaining colony. Tragically, Earth's battle fleet  is outflanked by the
> dark forces of General (unintelligible). Voltrex raiders rained fire down on
> the plucky colony for six hours before pulling out and heading to the next
> jump point, leaving nothing but a shattered landscape behind them.


>
All souls are presumed lost.
>
> The Earthling defeat at Albatross has left the homeworld at the mercy of
> marauding aliens.
>
> *30 years ago, 2169:*
> The Green Menace was repulsed only through the heroic actions of daring
> space ace, Banner Coopersmith. Shot nearly a dozen times, Coopersmith dove
> his tiny Spanner-Bee fighter through a swarm of Voltrex defenders and
> single-handedly attacked the mothership. Firing his last two missiles, he
> scored a direct hit and disappeared in a fiery explosion as the ship
> imploded.


>
He is now listed as M.I.A.
>
> *April 5th, 2199:*
> After the loss at Albatross, a darkness descends on the people of Earth. As
> they look to the skies, they cling desperately to the hope that somewhere in
> the cosmos, Banner Coopersmith is still alive, and even now hurtling to the
> rescue. Humankind once more cries for the hero of Five Points.
>
> Where are you, Banner Coopersmith?
>


Ray Gun Revival magazine was started in 2006 as a fun little side-project,
an amateur token-payment 'zine spawned from enthusiasm for *Firefly *and
with the intention of introducing a new generation of readers to great genre
fiction. In 2010, our publisher moved away from 'zines and we intended to go
on hiatus for awhile to consider our options and decide our future. While
mulling things over, we were approached by a new publisher, Every Day
Fiction <http://www.everydayfiction.com/>. They volunteered to host us and
pay our authors Semi-pro rates. All we had to do was keep doing our ray gun
thing. Now, we may be haughty and mercurial Overlords, beholden to nothing
and no one, but we're not fools. We hit that generous offer with great
vigor, like a (metaphor doesn't translate well into English).

That was August of 2010. RGR re-opened our slushpile submissions in December
and aimed for a site relaunch in February, 2011. In their enthusiasm to
present space opera and golden age sci-fi to a new audience, our publisher
put together this short teaser trailer to promote the relaunched magazine.

This trailer was shot over a weekend in Ellinger's parents' house for a
> budget of under $100. We shot with a Canon T2i SLR that cost under a
> thousand dollars and edited the whole thing together with Adobe Premier.
> Everything is hand made, and the blue screening was accomplished with blue
> tissue scotch taped over the window. The music was made available through
> Creative Commons by the St. Matthews Choir, and the image is courtesy of the
> Hubble telescope, also in the public domain.
>

Our publisher's goal for RGR is for us is to go fully Pro. If we're
successful, this time next year we might find ourselves a SFWA-qualifying
market. For our part, when not vaporizing puny planets, we're just happy to
take the next step publishing great character-driven space opera / golden
age sci-fi short stories. We've always been known for our stellar (heh)
cover art. Now the quality of the fiction is being elevated to match. Our
authors for February are *Larry Hodges*,* Mike Resnick*, *Michael Merriam*,
and *Gerri Leen*.

We're very pleased with the teaser trailer produced by EDF. Please feel free
to share it around with other space opera fans. And please do visit Ray Gun
Revival magazine, a free space opera e-zine paying Semi-pro rates with
larger aspirations. RGR - it's where the cool (galactic Overlords) hang out:
http://raygunrevival.com

Imperiously,

Johne Cook / L.S. King / Paul Christian Glenn
Overlords, *Ray Gun Revival *magazine
*Sparing your puny planet since 2006*

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