Starglider

by James Follett

Starglider is the paperback novella that came packaged with the 1986 game Starglider (by Rainbird for the Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari ST, Amstrad, CPC/PCW, Apple II, ZX Spectrum, and MS-DOS).

64 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1986

About the author

James Follett (not "Follet") was an author and screenwriter, born in 1939 in Tolworth, England.

Follett became a full-time fiction writer in 1976, after resigning from contract work as a technical writer for the British Ministry of Defence. He has wrote over 20 novels, several television scripts (including episodes of the BBC's Blake's 7), and many radio dramas. Follett was one of the 400 most popular British authors, measured by the numbers of books borrowed from public libraries in the UK, having spent 11 years in the public lending right's top two bands of authors.

Reviews

[Martin Luther King · Rating 5 out of 5]

I only read it to get through the copy protection

[Keith Baker · Rating 5 out of 5]

I first read this novella in 1986/7, having purchased the game. I thought it was great and a perfect scene-setter for playing the game.

37 years later and I've found it again online and am re-reading it avidly.

A great little read.