Rob Lopez

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About Rob Lopez

Rob Lopez writes and illustrates the sci-fi, horror and fantasy comic Forsaken Stars and an accompanying blog at forsakenstars.com. He has written over thirty short stories in the last few years, thirteen of them collected in Prelude to Spiral Legion. Other stories include "The Dark Lady," "Vampire Lost" and more recently, "The Echo Girl," a mind-bending thriller dealing with alternate realities. The stories usually come with concept and character art and sometimes art that stands on its own. Rob works with pencils, inks, and programs like Clip Studio Paint and GIMP 2 for the art and Microsoft Word and Kingsoft Office for android for the writing. A Central Valley native, Rob was born in Dinuba, raised in Orange Cove and has lived in Fresno since 2005.

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Spiral Legion: The Havel Imperatives Dec 4, 2016

by Rob Lopez

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In the 26th century, Humanity faces an alien threat capable of rendering our technology useless. At first they are seen as nothing more than interstellar rats, stowing away aboard our ships and following us from planet to planet.

In 2577, an asteroid appears out of nowhere over the planet Altar and crushes the city of Newfall. It is filled with these space rats--the Shrekar--and we realize they are a spacefaring race unto themselves, bent on our destruction.

Doctor Segad Havel, an officer in the field, during repeated encounters with the Shrekar, develops a series of imperatives to prepare for an inevitable war. This is his brutal story of survival and the beginning of either our hope or doom.

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THE ECHO GIRL: Torn Cover Edition Nov 26, 2016

by Rob Lopez

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A magazine writer begins to see his lost love in his apartment, at work and in his car and he can't figure out if she is a dream, a memory or delusions--and then he begins to see other versions of her. Did she ever really exist? And what is she now? Who or what is the Echo Girl? A science-fiction/horror romance influenced by Asimov, Bradbury, Ellison and Niven, drawing from the writer's own personal struggles of the last two years, including divorce and depression, the Echo Girl is a slow burn that amps into a brain teasing thriller and ends in an unsettling twist. Includes poems "I am the End" and "This Author's Corpse Vow" and flash fictions "We Found it in the Forest" and "Cut Off."

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The Gremlin's Daughter: A Forsaken Stars Tale May 3, 2016

by Rob Lopez

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Kyton, Gremlin First Class, spent thousands of years breaking the inventions of man, slowing their progress, but during the Return of Christ, his pack of “infant demons” snuck aboard the living tree-ship called Willowark and this time, rather than cause the ship to fail, they kept it together and helped 13,000 people escape the solar system–these people would beget the Soulless. His pack scattered and he went into seclusion.

Nearly a thousand years later, Kyton, now more machine than gremlin, has built a small cadre of robots to keep him company, most notably his butler Horatio, Achilles, commander of his army, and knights Belch and Ajax. However, they just don't fill the emptiness inside. Then a Mechan Dreadnought drifts near Kyton's asteroid field and he prays a little adventure might offer up some distraction and possibly a visitor or two to answer his silent cries for living, breathing companionship.

The Gremlin's Daughter takes place in the Forsaken Stars Universe, some time before the fourth issue of the webcomic series. Though it has clues and implications for the future of the comic, this is a self-contained short story packed with suspense, robots, aliens and adventure. Also contains illustrations and concept art!

The Savage Azzi or Vampire Lost: A Forsaken Stars Tale Apr 25, 2016

by Rob Lopez, Nichole McGhie

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After the Vampire Azzi lost his Delven wife, Jennafree, in childbirth trying to bring an impossible, magical miracle baby into the universe, after he held its little lifeless body in his arms, he forsook his empire, booked a ship to the edge of the galaxy and beyond, and began a series of adventures in a wayward search for meaning…or death in the most spectacular way possible.

This is one of those adventures...

This is a prequel to Forsaken Stars, taking place some 350 odd years before Azzi enlists the aid of Captain Sera Besh and her ship to get to the Godshield. This is a story about the passengers and crew of Arcasia's Scimitar--Captain Corolis, the mysterious Lady Vaas, Aimless, the Mechan Gunslinger, the Soulless First Mate Rev, the Delven Science Officer Sirtis--and the time they crashed on a wildly alien world called Thranx Skellion, as told by Warren Wheatley, a Gentlemonster of the Floppy variety, in this case, a hipster billy goat. This is another tale from the Forsaken Stars Universe.

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Prelude to Spiral Legion Sep 20, 2014

by Rob Lopez

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Stories from a future timeline, this collection details the history of the science-fiction horror universe of Spiral Legion and includes:

Hello, Kitties -c.2014- Wherein a young girl learns about her genetic origins.

Cleaner Than Spotless -c.2150- Wherein an android-robot hybrid makes a terrible choice.

Our Ocean Wedding Day -c.2176- A tale of two lovers with an ocean of genetic material between them.

Time to Put the Toys Away -c.2230s- A telepath, a clairvoyant and a telekinetic play a game only one can win.

Acceleration Curve -c.2245- Wherein a group of scientists discover a paradigm shifter!

The Skies of Mars -c.2265- Wherein the last UFOologist gets a peek behind the curtain of conspiracy.

Preyer Jar -c.2300?- Wherein a man undergoes a radical genetic make-over to forget his sins.

The Great Space Joke -c.2333- An entertainer vies for the spotlight against a world-changing invention.

The De La Torre Family -c.2381- An officer responds to a domestic disturbance call and encounters a family most disturbing.

She is Not Herself -c.2474- Wherein a professor receives an admirer in the dead of night.

Soul Saver -c.2495- A story of clones and revenge.

Future Vagrant -c.2513- A vignette about a homeless man and his robot doll.

A German Shepherd, His Lord Magician and the Chippendale Arm Chair -c.2572- Wherein a blind agent of the Vatican and his guide dog are dispatched to another planet to investigate the claims of a possessed arm chair!

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The Dark Lady: A Forsaken Stars Tale May 9, 2014

by Rob Lopez

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They say she is a young woman with black hair and a dress that glitters with stars, and that she waits by the side of the road with a suitcase at her feet or in hand. She doesn’t wave, she rarely moves, but she is looking for something or someone. As you pass and look in your rearview or sideview mirrors, she’s in them, but if you slow down or stop and look back, she’s no longer there, as if she vanished. I’ve always wondered what would happen if you slowed down and looked in your mirror and backed up, never taking your eye off her image. Might you drive up to her then and be able to offer her a ride? Maybe that’s the trick…

Brothers Andre and Volkov Kasper are borrowing the Last Sheila, a creaky old Zanthium Ore arc-jump star freighter, to make a run that will take them near the Delven Homeworld so that they can spread their deceased sister's ashes at the waterfalls of Ascandia. Upon passing the Indigo Nebula, Volkov sees the impossible--a woman, sans spacesuit, wearing the cosmos like a dress, floating just outside the ship! Andre guesses his brother has been drinking too much fauxdka, but she is far more than a figment of Volkov's drunken imagination. And she's not alone...

Set in the Forsaken Stars Universe, the Dark Lady is a self-contained short story with all the thrills, chills and sexiness of the comic. Also contains illustrations and concept art!

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Ko maua La Moana Male 'ana: (Our Ocean Wedding Day) (Prelude to Spiral Legion) Apr 13, 2014

by Rob Lopez

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2176, Off the Coast of the California Islands
A stormy morning in June, nearly fifty years since the Great Quake, Coast Guardsman Lieutenant Derrick “Dee” Keyes, first mate of the 310 foot, MYSTIC-Class Cutter Zyrfass, had cut his bachelor party short to join a rescue operation. Semper Paratus, “always ready,” was the call to duty that drove him to become a Guardsman in the first place, but he sure hoped the op wouldn't spill into his wedding day.
His fiancée, marine agriculture technician Anjaneia Nui Waikamali`i, a third generation mermaid, homo sapiens aquarius, was teardrop-shaped for aqua-dynamics; she had long, webbed hands and feet that looked more like flippers; and gills that ran along her neck and ribcage for long term submerged breathing. She was funny, fierce and had a voice like a Hawaiian sunset.
Architeuthopolis shook and groaned with the churning of the sea. City maintenance teams worked tirelessly to batten down the hatches and fortify connecting corridors in the vast ocean floor habitat composed of thirty-five interlocking modules. Each module was self-sufficient, at least in the short-term, and, if necessary, could be rearranged or moved according to environmental conditions or the needs of the inhabitants. Many of the modules were designed after sea creature archetypes and had been given their counterpart designations like Crab Hall, Sand Dollar Station, and Coral Row.
Derrick's family had arrived three days before, from Florida, and his mother Gladadale had complained from the moment she had set foot in the undersea habitat. Sand Dollar Station was too cold, Lobster Pavilion was too hot, and the whole thing was claustrophobic. Oh, and she hated seafood. Anjaneia took this all in stride. Derrick had warned her that his mother hadn't been the same since his father died in one of the last great quakes, and she had made the difficult decision to move back to Florida to live with her folks. So she was a little bitter and angry, but once she warmed up to Anjaneia—and how could she not?—she would be fine.
Anjaneia felt three years, never mind days, wouldn't be enough to warm this woman up.
There was going to be a wedding.
And there was going to be a tsunami.
Would love survive?

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The Skies of Mars (Prelude to Spiral Legion) Nov 13, 2013

by Rob Lopez

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Prior to the terraforming of Mars, astronauts, miners, scientists and colonists witnessed unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) over the skies of Viking Colony at Terra Meridiani over a span of fifty years. The UAPs were never satisfactorily explained. Aerospace Force Special Agent Raaf Krusen is the last of the UFOlogists, dispatched from Earth to Mars to question retired Sheriff Gerald "Jerry" Corbett in hopes of establishing a definitive conclusion to the mystery of unidentified aerial phenomena on Mars and at home.

A Soulless Christmas & Other Tales of Forsaken Stars Jun 12, 2013

by Rob Lopez, John East

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Prose and poetry arising out of the sci-fi, horror and fantasy webcomic and blog Forsaken Stars! Includes the short stories "A Soulless Christmas," "Ninth Circle," and the new short "Cowbird and Cactus," the song lyrics "Rock Eternal," the poem "The Astronaut Vampire's Lament," the mini script "Unicorns and Rainbows" and a never before seen interview transcript with the Vampire Azzi. This volume of collected works is loaded with illustrations, includes late night tweet fics and links to more!

Cleaner than Spotless Apr 22, 2012

by Rob Lopez

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Jovey CR-1477 was designed by Doctor Aryo Cardeñas to clean up after any unfortunate accidents in which the family was involved. Currently, the family in particular was Milas and Sargento Cardeñas, and they had “accidentally” blown away Thander McThewlis and Ednard O'Grady, two enforcers from the McThewlis gang who were trying to lean on Mister Benavedes, the manager of one of the Cardeñas money laundering fronts. The Cardeñas cousins had tried to play it cool, but O'Grady red-flagged on Milas' See-All® optical display visor and he felt he had no choice but to fire upon them before being fired upon. When the explosive and brief firefight was done, Sargento put the call in to his Uncle Aryo to “send the machine cleaner.”

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