- Paperback: 364 pages
- Publisher: Wizard Books (2 Jun 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1840465522
- ISBN-13: 978-1840465525
- Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 11 x 1.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 257,386 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Sucked through the nightmare of the Seltsian Void, the starship Traveller emerges at the other side of the black hole into an unknown universe. You are the captain of the Traveller and her fate depends on you. Will you be able to discover the way back to Earth from the alien peoples and planets you encounter?
About the Author
Steve Jackson is, with Ian Livingstone, an originator of the Fighting Fantasy series. Among other things, he now runs the computer game company Lionhead Studios.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
As captain of the STARSHIP TRAVELLER, you find your ship sucked through a black hole at the start of this adventure, and your mission is to get back home.
The second book by Steve Jackson was a departure from the usual swords and sorcery gamebook fare. For one thing, you had your spaceship, which could be involved in ship to ship battles; and you have a choice of six other crew members (each with individual Skill and Stamina scores) from which to select as backup when beaming onto planets.
With more than a passing nod to STAR TREK, this gamebook (fourth in the original series) is also one of the shortest, with 343 paragraphs as opposed to the standard Fighting Fantasy norm of 400. But for all that, it is also one of the most difficult of the early gamebooks. You have to collect time and location coordinates for a suitable black hole to get you back home, and there are plenty of wrong bits of information to find, red herrings to throw you off track, and lead your ship to its doom.
STARSHIP TRAVELLER is a good Fighting Fantasy gamebook, but not one of the great ones. Two dice, an eraser and a pencil are all that are needed to play, and full rules are printed in the book.
The second book by Steve Jackson was a departure from the usual swords and sorcery gamebook fare. For one thing, you had your spaceship, which could be involved in ship to ship battles; and you have a choice of six other crew members (each with individual Skill and Stamina scores) from which to select as backup when beaming onto planets.
With more than a passing nod to STAR TREK, this gamebook (fourth in the original series) is also one of the shortest, with 343 paragraphs as opposed to the standard Fighting Fantasy norm of 400. But for all that, it is also one of the most difficult of the early gamebooks. You have to collect time and location coordinates for a suitable black hole to get you back home, and there are plenty of wrong bits of information to find, red herrings to throw you off track, and lead your ship to its doom.
STARSHIP TRAVELLER is a good Fighting Fantasy gamebook, but not one of the great ones. Two dice, an eraser and a pencil are all that are needed to play, and full rules are printed in the book.
7 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This was the first fighting fanasy gamebook i have ever had and gave me a brilliant overall impression.I think the book is very clever with different types of planets and other charcteristics. What made this book special was the members of your crew and ship this was because of you had choices who to take down to planets such as your science officer.
Planets had different beings on some of them where very kind to come across but very evil once you get to know them.
This book let me down because i thought it would have more action but i was proved wrong. You also had no different keys or weapons.
On the whole it was a great book and would recommend it to all.
Planets had different beings on some of them where very kind to come across but very evil once you get to know them.
This book let me down because i thought it would have more action but i was proved wrong. You also had no different keys or weapons.
On the whole it was a great book and would recommend it to all.
3 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
well, this one is quite a sorry tale. It doesn't measure up to the others in this series and while okay it didn't stand out as anything special like some, namely Deathtrap Dungeon.
The story is that you and your spacship crew are lost and you have to find your way home. This means you have to explore around and stuff to find what you need to get your heroic crew back safe and save the ship!
Pretty simple and that's all there is to it. It ain't too hard and the encounters are mediocre. An okay book but not as good as I was expecting. I really think that the other book, Appointment with F.E.A.R., is a far superior science-fiction effort.
Sadly disappointing!
The story is that you and your spacship crew are lost and you have to find your way home. This means you have to explore around and stuff to find what you need to get your heroic crew back safe and save the ship!
Pretty simple and that's all there is to it. It ain't too hard and the encounters are mediocre. An okay book but not as good as I was expecting. I really think that the other book, Appointment with F.E.A.R., is a far superior science-fiction effort.
Sadly disappointing!
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