The Gamma People story
A train passenger car carrying a reporter and his photographer mysteriously breaks away from its locomotive, accidentally ending up on a remote sidetrack in Gudavia, an isolated Ruritanian-style, one-village Eastern Bloc dictatorship. The newsmen discover a mad scientist using gamma rays to turn the country's youth into either geniuses or subhumans, all at the bidding of an equally mad dictator.
10 total · 6 major · 4 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| human vs. captivity | major | Mike Wilson and Howard Meade were trapped in the isolated Eastern Bloc dictatorship of Gudavia. |
| human vs. monster | major | Mike Wilson and Howard Meade, among other people, were terrorized by zombies created by Dr. Boronski. |
| intelligence augmentation technology | major | Dr. Bronski experimented with making child prodigies using gamma rays. |
| military dictatorship | major | Mike Wilson and Howard Meade find themselves in an isolated Eastern Bloc dictatorship of Gudavia. |
| unethical human experimentation | major | Dr. Boronski's gamma ray treatment produced scores of subhuman children for every child prodigy. |
| zombie | major | Dr. Boronski created zombies using gamma radiation. |
| espionage | minor | Mike Wilson and Howard Meade were initially assumed by the Gudavians of being spies. |
| friendship | minor | Mike Wilson and Howard Meade were two friends traveling together. |
| scientist occupation | minor | Dr. Boronski was experimenting with gamma rays in his laboratory. |
| super accelerated Darwinian evolution | minor | Dr. Boronski was convinced that gamma rays focused on the brain accelerated Human evolution by a million years. |