ZERO POINT (Star Drive (Novels)) [Mass Market Paperback]

Richard Baker (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 312 pages
• Publisher: Wizards of the Coast; First Printing edition (June 7, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786913673
• ISBN-13: 978-0786913671
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,517,681 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Richard Baker is an award-winning game designer and a best-selling author. He's worked on the DUNGEONS & DRAGONS game lines since 1991. Rich traces his D&D experience back to 1979, when he began playing the DUNGEONS & DRAGONS game as a 7th-grader. He spent a significant amount of his high school and college years playing D&D at every opportunity, and after serving as a surface warfare officer in the United States Navy, Rich decided to take a shot at working on the game he grew up playing - and so he joined the staff of TSR, Inc., and became a game designer. Rich's list of D&D design credits numbers over 50 game products, including the Origins Award-winning BIRTHRIGHT Campaign Setting, the ALTERNITY Science Fiction Roleplaying Game (which he co-designed with Bill Slavicsek), and the newest edition of the DUNGEONS & DRAGONS game. He has also served as creative director for the ALTERNITY and FORGOTTEN REALMS game lines. As an author, Rich has published eight fantasy and science fiction novels, including City of Ravens, Forsaken House, and the New York Times bestseller Condemnation. Rich is currently employed as a senior game designer at Wizards of the Coast, Inc., and works every day on new products for the DUNGEONS & DRAGONS game.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Space Thriller with all the Trimmings, August 27, 2000

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Wayne Morse (Central Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: ZERO POINT (Star Drive (Novels)) (Mass Market Paperback)

Zero Point has all the elements a grand science fiction thriller should have. A scoundrel who is capable and maybe not as bad as he thinks he is, a heroine who isn't just another pretty face, suspense, mystery, ACTION, and an Artificial Intelligence driven ship with personality plus! This is a well written book that grabs you right from the start. The action doesn't stop until the ending which seemed rather abrupt and sudden. Zero Point would be the great start of a series with unlimited possiblities. The author takes one turn that, should this turn into a series, needs to be corrected regarding main character's ship. All in all this was an excellent book and great read!!!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A space opera waiting to happen... Zero Point is the first.., July 1, 1999

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This review is from: ZERO POINT (Star Drive (Novels)) (Mass Market Paperback)

In the vein of Star Wars, space opera at it's finest... Richard Baker's novelization about the new TSR Sci-Fi setting Star*Drive, based in part on the Alternity game system, is a must to fans of RolePlaying novelizations or space opera fans alike... A bounty hunter is hired to take a woman back to her employer, but she has other ideas.. Until a pursuing ship forces the bounty hunter to pull a blind Starfall, or enter a type of hyperspace...And they find something... Excellent characterization, although a little bit more background on both the main characters would have been appreciated. Great book, though.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good stuff, December 9, 2009

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R. Young (Canberra, ACT Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ZERO POINT (Star Drive (Novels)) (Mass Market Paperback)

This was the last book I have obtained in the StarDrive series, that rounds out my collection. At this point, all I can say is WHAT THE HECK have they done, by pulling the game & novel system, as the whole universe it's based in, is extremely excellent and with the right dash of mystery, horror, suspense, action, adventure, and all the background mechanics that mesh it together = balancing most EXCELLENTLY.

I recommend reading this book, and also others in the StarDrive universe if you are able to get copies of them. They are not really easy to find anymore, which is a shame - but there are a number of 2nd hand ones out there.

Truly recommended for the SciFi/Space Opera buff.