Robotech & Robotech Sentinels Novels

Robotech novels (complete) with cover images
+ Robotech Sentinels

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The Robotech story spans five decades, from 1990 to 2040 or thereabouts,
save for a period of "lost years," covering the rise of Monument City and
the Army of the Southern Cross, an account of which may yet see the light of
day. Some of this material is in fact already being covered by other
sources. Robotech was originally published and animated in the early 80's
decade and is a reasonable representation of quality TV animation at that
time.

With nearly one million words of print in the Ballantine/Del Rey series
alone, eighty-five episodes of powerful animation, an equal number of comic
book adaptations, numerous art and role-playing books, and supplemental
source material—including several college theses. Robotech has traveled a
great distance since "HAL," Haruhiko Mikimoto, sat down at his desk one day
and inked the first sketch of raven-haired songbird, Lynn-Minmei.

As most readers of Robotech are aware, the eighty-five "continuous" animated
episodes (which still show up in U.S. television markets) were actually a
complete reworking—in terms of music, dialogue, and storylines—of three
separate anime series that appeared in Japan over the course of several
years: Macross, Southern Cross, and Mospeda. Credit for this unique
accomplishment goes to Carl Macek, as well as Harmony Gold U.S.A. Inc.
Together with a talented team of writers, voice-over artists, and production
personnel, Robotech Master Macek found an overall grand visual theme in the
Japanese series and redefined both Robotechnology and Protoculture. It was
Robotech that led the way in popularizing Japanese animation with animation
fans in the USA hungry for more similarly high-quality animation.
Popularization was important to more rapidly create a mass-market which
would reduce the costs for fans in acquiring animation which at that time
was as high as $150 for one single show to the much lower prices they are
now.

It is a source of continuing disappointment that the project, as envisioned
by Mr. Macek, was never brought to completion. The result would have been
an additional sixty-five episodes of animation detailing the exploits of the
Robotech Sentinels. There were three Robotech Sentinels books issued
(there would have been more) when it was cancelled. These books are also
included here.

In the spirit of Robotech fandom and to promote the long out-of-print books,
use "GoodSamaritan" to open up the RAR files if asked. Thank you for
reading this historical background note for Robotech and early animation
fandom; so few remember how it was once upon a time.


REFERENCES:

Example of Robotech fan-fiction covering the rise of Monument City and the
Army of the Southern Cross: http://home.kc.rr.com/sandborn/foxpage.html

Other Robotech fan-fiction: http://a.webring.com/hub?ring=vf1s

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