New from FASA--a fiction series based on its most popular board game! CRIMSON SKY FICTION These novels, based on the exciting Microsoft computer game (scheduled for release in the third quarter of 2000) and FASA's popular board game, introduce the world of Crimson Skies. In the 1930s--of an alternative-history America--air militias from fragmented nation-states fight to protect themselves from pirates and other raiders. In this America, the planes are faster, the guns are bigger, and life is more exciting. The first series follows the transformation of Trevor "Rogue" Rheese from law-abiding security agent to pirate with a heart of gold.
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Mack Maloney's "Wingman" series in the 1930s,
This review is from: Crimson Skies: Wings of Justice: Rogue Flyer (FAS8901) (Paperback)
Admittedly it requires familiarity with the board game series it's based on to make total sense--especially with all the airplanes mentioned in it--but it's a thoroughly enjoyable tale of dogfighting, greed, and vengeance over the skies of an alternate 1937 Seattle. The setting is evocative of Mack Maloney's "Wingman" series, but more from the point of view of the people who prefer and enjoy the balkanization of the USA rather than the people who want to restore it.
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Great book, but no follow up books,
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This review is from: Crimson Skies: Wings of Justice: Rogue Flyer (FAS8901) (Paperback)
I played the computer game that these novels were partly based off, and I loved the world in which the game and book take place. I read it pretty fast, and although the end of this book has a section from the second, there was never a second book made in the series, this is the only downfall, otherwise the book is great.
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The morning sun streamed in through the window, and the dingy white curtains billowed like the silk bowl of a parachute in the breeze. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
magnesium rounds, cargo zeppelin, kill markers, throat mic, pirate lead, forward gallery, pusher engine, hundred fifty miles per hour, starboard wing, full squadron, port wing, flight helmet, flight lead, hangar deck, nose art Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Black Hats, Blake Aviation, Fortune Hunters, Sacred Trust, Big John, Paladin Blake, Boeing Field, Silver Keys, Betty Charles, Ace Dixon, Black Swan, Nathan Zachary, Promised Land, Trevor Girard, Empire State, Geoffrey Rassmussen, Lucas Miles, Mak Redfield, Shannon Beyl, Sky Haven, Worker's Voyage, Bodee Beyl, Drew Redfield, Rick Dobson, Second Avenue New!
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The morning sun streamed in through the window, and the dingy white curtains billowed like the silk bowl of a parachute in the breeze. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
magnesium rounds, cargo zeppelin, kill markers, throat mic, pirate lead, forward gallery, pusher engine, hundred fifty miles per hour, starboard wing, full squadron, port wing, flight helmet, flight lead, hangar deck, nose art Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Black Hats, Blake Aviation, Fortune Hunters, Sacred Trust, Big John, Paladin Blake, Boeing Field, Silver Keys, Betty Charles, Ace Dixon, Black Swan, Nathan Zachary, Promised Land, Trevor Girard, Empire State, Geoffrey Rassmussen, Lucas Miles, Mak Redfield, Shannon Beyl, Sky Haven, Worker's Voyage, Bodee Beyl, Drew Redfield, Rick Dobson, Second Avenue New!
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Front Cover | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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