Dusty's MANKILLER UNIVERSE

Audiobook: the first "mankiller?"

Added 2020-07-30 21:00:09 +0000 UTC

Here's a golden oldie from yesteryear. In the 1935, an author published "The Adaptive Ultimate," about a scientific experiment gone wrong. In what surely have been racy prose for its day, a woman is imbued with the ability to "adapt" herself to whatever situation she finds herself in. Its only a matter of time before she begins to exhibit what we all here would recognize as sociopathic MKU behavior, and terrifyingly, there's even a brief hint at her developing superhuman strength:

"She awoke. Fingers like slim steel rods closed on his wrist, forcing his hand away. Scott seized the cone, and her hand clutched his wrist as well, and he felt the strength of her grasp. "Stupid," she said quietly, sitting erect. "This is quite useless."

Alas, she doesn't survive in the end, but the tale is a fun one.

This story might have been lost to history, but for a 1949 radio program adaptation. Here it is, complete with the implied (and all to brief) strength scene (around the 22:40 mark). I LOVE the voice of the villainess; the old, almost transAtlantic accents, the sexy, sleepy way she calls the hero "brown eyes." Woof! In my mind, the super-ized Ms. Zelas must have been super-looking, too. Anyway....a fun look into the fascination about powerful women: here's proof that they've been popular for a long time!

https://www.mediafire.com/file/w6t7896sy2txdeq/Adaptive+Ultimate+-+perhaps+a+Mankiller+from+the+30s.mp3/file

If you want to read the original story, which is even more kinky than the radio production (Zelas wonders aloud "what kind of empress I would make?"), the story is here:
http://www.forgottenfutures.com/game/ff11/html/adapt.htm