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Posted: **Tue Mar 02, 2010 6:05 pm**

The only person springing to mid is Mean Machine Angel from Judge Dredd.

Not sure if he has a plant phobia though...

Posted: **Tue Mar 02, 2010 6:17 pm**

Nope, it ain't Mean Machine! This one's a lot more mechanical than Mean Machine. I'd say about ... maybe 75% metal?

Posted: **Wed Mar 03, 2010 10:00 am**

Another clue, then: he first appeared in 1979. Last seen in the company of a female assassin clone who's adept at pushing his buttons. Or button.

Posted: **Wed Mar 03, 2010 10:14 pm**

Stab in the dark... Deathlok?

Marvel universe, Spider Woman is the assassin clone woman thing.

Posted: **Thu Mar 04, 2010 9:55 am**

Nope, not Deathlok! He made his first appearance in a magazine called Dark Star, which despite the title wasn't a SciFi publication.

Posted: **Thu Mar 04, 2010 11:17 am**

After some serious googling; is it Axel Pressbutton from Three-eyes McGurk's Death Planet Commandos?

Posted: **Thu Mar 04, 2010 12:21 pm**

It is indeed the mercenary, hitman and former botanist Axel Pressbutton – obviously he was a lot more obscure than I had thought! A shame, really, because he had some decent stories.

Anyway, Loxley is next up!

Posted: **Thu Mar 04, 2010 1:05 pm**

I don't think I can compete on the obscurity front here so this probably won't take too long.

Anyway, I'm looking for a novel describing the history of mankind from the present day until it's eventual extinction.

Posted: **Thu Mar 04, 2010 3:04 pm**

is it the ITV 2 listings in the TV Times?

Posted: **Thu Mar 04, 2010 3:44 pm**

Tempting, but since the timescale the author uses is a bit longer than next Wednesday I'll have to say no.

Posted: **Thu Mar 04, 2010 5:50 pm**

Ooh ... might it be something by Stephen Baxter?

Posted: **Thu Mar 04, 2010 5:53 pm**

Was about to say the same thing, as if it is I'm half-way through reading it...

Posted: **Thu Mar 04, 2010 5:54 pm**

Thargoid wrote:
Was about to say the same thing, as if it is I'm half-way through reading it...

You may as well say it then, because right now I can't think of the title! A book with the Xeelee in it, I fancy ...

Posted: **Thu Mar 04, 2010 5:59 pm**

The one I'm half-way through is Time, but as I haven't finished it yet I can't confirm if it fits the question.

Posted: **Thu Mar 04, 2010 7:19 pm**

It was written before he was born I'm afraid.

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