Space Assassin

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Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks

The cover of Space Assassin illustrated by Christos Achilleos
Outline
Location: Space
References: 400
Publication details
Author(s): Andrew Chapman
Illustrator: Geoffrey Senior
Puffin
Cover illustrator: Christos Achilleos
First published: 1985
Number 12
ISBN: ISBN 0-14-031861-5
Wizard
Cover illustrator: N/A
First published: N/A
Number N/A
ISBN: N/A
List of Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks

Space Assassin is a single-player roleplaying gamebook written by Andrew Chapman, illustrated by Geoffrey Senior and originally published in 1985 by Puffin Books. It forms part of Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone's Fighting Fantasy series. It is the 12th in the series in the original Puffin series (ISBN 0-14-031861-5). There are currently no announced plans to republish this book as part of the modern Wizard series.

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Looming above your home planet is the vast hulk of the starship Vandervecken. Aboard, the crazed scientist Cyrus is planning to unleash a gruesome experiment upon your world, which will destroy all life as it is known, leaving only hideous mutations in its wake. YOU are an assassin, and your mission is to stop him - before it is too late!

Space Assassin is the second Fighting Fantasy book in the science fiction genre, the first being Starship Traveller. The book places the player on the starship Vandervecken, where a crazed scientist named Cyrus plans to unleash a hideous experiment upon the player's homeworld.

The player must make their way through the labyrinthine Vandervecken, overcoming robots, mutants and other science fiction staples until they finally confronts the scientist. If the player manages to defeat him the planet will be saved and the game will end successfully.

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