Cleopatra in Space!

Cleopatra in space, pretty much exactly what it says on the tin. Cleopatra, or Cleo as she's know to her friends, is brought into the future. Then she proceeds to get into exactly the kind of you would expect a sixteen-year-old given a laser blaster would get herself into, much to the ire of her guardian Khensu, who get happens to be cat.

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Cleopatra is an interesting figure in history. Interesting more even for how romanticized and sensationalized she was. It seems that authors can extol her virtues without compunction but the truth is we don’t know what Cleopatra looked like. There are no busts of her that survive to this day and even most of the accounts of her looks were written well after she was long dead. She seduced Mark Antony and Caesar, but she could achieve that with her power, influence, or wits as was also attributed to her. The myth of Cleopatra may exceed the reality but I like to think of her as the successful independent ruler of Egypt that she was.

Cleopatra in Space! Is a fun retropunk pulp adventure that I think lives up to the ideal of Cleopatra as well as the feminism and power of one of Egypt’s most famous rulers.