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Starship Traveller (ISBN 014031637) is a single player Roleplaying Gamebook , written by Steve Jackson and illustrated by Peter Andrew Jones , originally published in 1983 . The book is part of Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone's Fighting Fantasy series, numbered 4 in the original Puffin printing and 22 in the recent Wizard reissuing. Unusually for the series it is divided into only 340 sections, though as is usual the final section forms the only successful conclusion to the story. STORY ''Starship Traveller'' is set in the distant future, with the player taking the role of a Starship commander whose ship and Crew are sucked through a Black Hole and into an unknown quadrant of space. The player's mission from this point is to find a means to return home, collecting clues from several different planets in pursuit of this goal. ''Starship Traveller'' deviates from the Fighting Fantasy norm in a number of ways. It is the first Fighting Fantasy gamebook to feature a Science Fiction setting, as opposed to the more traditional Fantasy , and it was also the first to provide the player with multiple characters - the player is required to keep track of the relevant statistics for several crew members as well as the protagonist. As is appropriate for a game which features extensive travel by starship, it also employs the first vehicle combat system in the series. The book contains many similarities to . The crew uses Transporter -like devices to visit planets and both they and the starship have weapons like those seen on ''Star Trek''. The organization of the crew is also reminiscent of that used on the Television series. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS |
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