Twilight: 2000, 2nd Edition [Version 2.2]

by Lester Smith

"Want to wake up jaded players? Drop their characters into one of these adventures, and listen to them gasp. Designed for groups looking for the unusual, these Twilight Nightmares are usable in either 2000 or 2000 campaigns, whether as "official" episodes or as momentary diversions. The book * The Rumors of Our Biotechnologically resurrected from a few, faint DNA traces, titanic reptiles from the age of dinosaurs stalk the deserts of New Mexico, searching for something to eat. * The Orpheus A pair of agents wants your help to free a colleague held hostage. A German intelligence officer holds a captive whom he believes can put a secret base back into operation. Poised between the two sides hangs a deadly secret, and the PCs could tip it toward their own salvation or destruction. * This Ain't No Weather On the trail of a lost business tycoon, the PCs discover a crashed saucer from another world, and its mysterious zombie guards. * An unseen warlord bent on world conquest, a secret mountain factory using slave labor, and a terrorized village draw the PCs into an encounter with the unexpected. Twilight Nightmares contains six fully developed adventures and four short scenarios which can be introduced as encounters in almost any other campaign, as well as perforated and color pages containing player handouts to help spice up the adventures and aid the ease of play." Includes a Predator-style adventure, but better than the movie.

280 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

Elissa Malcohn has been published in Amazing Stories, Asimov's, Hugo Award winner Electric Velocipede, Hugo nominee Helix: A Speculative Fiction Quarterly, IPPY Silver Medalist Riffing on Strings, Tales of the Unanticipated, Bram Stoker Award winner Unspeakable Horror, and elsewhere. Her story "Hermit Crabs" (Electric Velocipede #14) appears in the recommended reading list in The Year's Best Science Fiction, 26th Annual Edition.

She was a John W. Campbell Award finalist in 1985 for best new science fiction writer of the year, reached preliminary ballot for a Nebula Award in 1989, and is a four-time Rhysling Award nominee for best speculative poetry of the year.

Covenant, the first volume of her Deviations series, was released by Aisling Press in 2007. See this blog entry for publication changes.

Covenant is now available as a free download (ISBN 978-0-9819764-0-2), in formats compatible with Kindle and other e-book readers, Palm and other PDAs, HTML for reading on a browser, and PDF (Acrobat Reader) reflowed to fit different-sized screens. In May 2009 Elissa released Volume 2, Appetite (ISBN 978-0-9819764-1-9).

Downloads are available at The Deviations Series website, Smashwords, and in even more formats at Manybooks.net.

Thanks to Rachel Baker for this review of both volumes at the Old Musty Books website, and to hosts Mark Eller (Chronicles)and Cyrus A. Webb (Conversations LIVE!) for having me on their shows. You can listen to the Chronicles interview here (click here for a transcript with accompanying photos and links) and to the Conversations LIVE! interview here (links-inclusive transcript here).

Elissa's novelette "Flotsam" and poem "Derivative Work" appear in the Oct./Nov. 2009 Asimov's. Work is forthcoming in the Dybbuk Press anthology She Nailed A Stake Through His Head: Tales of Biblical Terror (expected 2010), and elsewhere. Publication details here.

Elissa is also a participant in Operation E-Book Drop and keeps a Facebook fan page here."