ROBOTECH™ SERIES

'''McKinney, Jack. ROBOTECH™ SERIES.' #1 Genesis, #2 Battle Cry, #3 Homecoming, #4 Battlehymn, #5 Force of Arms, #6 Doomsday, #7 Southern Cross, #8 Metal Fire, #9 The Final Nightmare, #10 Invid Invasion, #11 Metamorphosis, #12 Symphony of Light''. All New York: Ballantine, apparently 1987-88. "A Del Rey Book," at least in the case of #1. Copyright owned by Harmony Gold, USA, and Tatsunoko Productions, Co.; the trademark is owned by Harmony Gold.

We have examined only Genesis. See for Robotechnology, the "crowning technological achievement" of which, "the mightiest machine in existence," is a huge transformer war toy with real weapons and, eventually, a large number of real human beings inside (Genesis 2-3 and passim). See also for the Invid, who look in their "heaviest class of mecha, advanced war machines," like "a maniac's vision of biped insect soldiers" (3); they descend from "a moon-size Invid hive ship" (5). See JM's SENTINELS™; see also R. A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers (this Category) and the original Battlestar Galactica (under Drama). In the first edn., the Genesis text is followed by ch. 1 of JM's Battle Cry. Note (mechanical) transformation as a significant motif in toys of the 1980s and surprisingly popular movies in the early 21st century.