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Space Assassin
Cover of the first edition
AuthorAndrew Chapman[1]
IllustratorGeoffrey Senior[1]
Cover artistChristos Achilleos
U.S. cover: R. Courtney[1]
SeriesFighting Fantasy
  • Puffin number: 12
GenreScience fiction
Location: Space
PublishedPuffin: 1985[1]
Dell/Laurel-Leaf: 1985[1]
ISBN0-14-031861-5

Space Assassin is a single-player roleplaying gamebook written by Andrew Chapman, illustrated by Geoffrey Senior and originally published in 1985 by Puffin Books. It forms part of Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone's Fighting Fantasy series. It is the 12th in the series in the original Puffin series (ISBN 0-14-031861-5). There are currently no announced plans to republish this book as part of the modern Wizard series.

Story

Space Assassin is a science-fiction scenario in which the hero, a skilled assassin skilled "in the martial arts of twenty-seven different human and alien species," must penetrate the orbiting spaceship of a mad scientist intent on mutating all the life on the world below. To stop him, the hero must fight his way through the madman's mutant cyborgs.[1]

Space Assassin is the second Fighting Fantasy book in the science fiction genre, the first being Starship Traveller. The book places the player on the starship Vandervecken, where a crazed scientist named Cyrus plans to unleash a hideous experiment upon the player's homeworld.

The player must make their way through the labyrinthine Vandervecken, overcoming robots, mutants and other dangerous foes until they finally confronts the scientist. If the player manages to defeat him the planet will be saved and the game will end successfully.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Schick, Lawrence (1991). Heroic Worlds: A History and Guide to Role-Playing Games. Prometheus Books. p. 366. ISBN 0-87975-653-5.