The Dark Wheel
Great memories of reading this as a child when I was an avid Elite player on my Acorn Electron and later my BBC Micro. The story is better than I remembered.
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Damien Ryan
The planet Lave, below, rotated in blue- green splendour.
Andrew Doran
Not on my BBC Micro! More of a large white circle.
Elite? An élite combateer? Alex's head span. He knew all about the space pilots who'd earned that title, of course.
not just fighting off freebooters, but of spending time as a bounty hunter, deliberately hyperspacing into dangerous planetary systems and waiting for pirates to come to you; looking for trouble, in other words, boosting your combat status to the maximum by advertising yourself to killers, and outgunning them.
Andrew Doran
This novella really captures the essence of why the game was so fun all those decades ago. So much depth.
Beam lasers!
plant
Andrew Doran
Typo? Planet?
Damien Ryan
Gronda gronda Aspidistra.
Where on earth did you find this?
Here you go: http://www.frontierastro.co.uk/Fiction/elitefiction.html
Great find! Thanks a mill. Have you seen David Braben's Kickstarter campaign for a sequel? http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1461411552/elite-dangerous
I did see that, thanks. Not sure about it - PC-only and it won't run on my ancient home computer. Also not much of a gamer since my children turned up...
See also: http://www.oolite.org/