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F.r.e.e.lancers
A sci-fi thriller offers a vision of a future dominated by terrorists armed with nuclear devices, telepathic criminal gangs, high-tech crime lords, computer-controlled cars, and the superheroic F.R.E.E.lancers. Original. 50,000 first printing.
312 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 1995
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Mel Odom
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aka Jordan Gray
Mel Odom is a bestselling writer for hire for Wizards of the Coast's Forgotten Realms, Gold Eagle's Mack Bolan, and Pocket's Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel book lines. His debut SF novel Lethal Interface made the Locus recommended list . The Rover was an Alyx Award winner. He has also written a scientific adventure of the high seas set in the 19th century entitled Hunters of the Dark Sea. He lives in Oklahoma.
aka Jordan Gray
Mel Odom is a bestselling writer for hire for Wizards of the Coast's Forgotten Realms, Gold Eagle's Mack Bolan, and Pocket's Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel book lines. His debut SF novel Lethal Interface made the Locus recommended list . The Rover was an Alyx Award winner. He has also written a scientific adventure of the high seas set in the 19th century entitled Hunters of the Dark Sea. He lives in Oklahoma.
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August 10, 2016
I remember when the source material for this came out—I always wanted to play it, but could never find anyone willing to. (Admission: at the time I had no idea what "freelancing" meant, and so the name of the group became something of a puzzle that I knew I should get but didn't.)
Two-plus decades on, I decided to read the first of two novels based in the F.R.E.E.Lancers world. It was about what I expected, written by an avid gamer who managed to turn his love of RPGs into a career as a writer (hey, it's nicer than calling him a hack). F.R.E.E.Lancers had a few highlights, but for the most part it read like what it was, a role-playing game scenario typed up and sold as a novel. At times you could almost imagine the author rolling the dice to see how a battle would progress. And the mix of cyberpunk, espionage, and super-powered mutants doesn't gel. Maybe that's the fault of the writing, and maybe it is a limitation of the niche nature of the RPG itself. I wouldn't know. I never played it.
(Hint hint: I still want to play this if anyone is game.)
Two-plus decades on, I decided to read the first of two novels based in the F.R.E.E.Lancers world. It was about what I expected, written by an avid gamer who managed to turn his love of RPGs into a career as a writer (hey, it's nicer than calling him a hack). F.R.E.E.Lancers had a few highlights, but for the most part it read like what it was, a role-playing game scenario typed up and sold as a novel. At times you could almost imagine the author rolling the dice to see how a battle would progress. And the mix of cyberpunk, espionage, and super-powered mutants doesn't gel. Maybe that's the fault of the writing, and maybe it is a limitation of the niche nature of the RPG itself. I wouldn't know. I never played it.
(Hint hint: I still want to play this if anyone is game.)
December 26, 2011
Only made it through a few chapters. Couldn't hold my interest enough to finish it.
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