My biggest problem with A Long Way Home is that it's dull, and that's because it's a meandering mess of a picaresque novel gone wrong. Unfortunately, it also shows how weak the genre of gaming fiction can be when used in inexperienced hands. Spread throughout all of that is a story of romance, as Sean woos, loses, and regains that aforementioned "new love" found out amidst the stars.Ī Long Way Home is "gaming fiction", by which I mean a story that could occur to a group of characters, as they wander somewhat randomly from place to place and encounter danger and problems. (Then he'll go and fight some Virus ships and 'bots too, because that's what people do in The New Era.) In the end, he will return home, to help his home country out from the oppression that it currently lives under. Among the stars he will find a new career, new goals, and new love. To avoid death himself, Sean is forced to flee his home with the RCES.
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However it took another decade for the full 34-chapter book to become available, when it was published by Comstar Media and Avenger Enterprises as a PDF.Ī Long Way Home is largely the story of Sean McKinnie, a farmer in the Wilds who suddenly stumbles into the world of the Reformation Coalition Exploratory Service (RCES) when he saves one of their operatives from death at the hands of the local tyrant (a "TEDdie"). The first 16 chapters of it appeared in Traveller Chronicle issues #11-13 (1996-1997).
This twentieth reviews covers A Long Way Home by Terry McInnes, a serialized novel.
The New Era time period has attracted the most attention from fiction writers this review covers another of those stories.
Thus, this series of reviews, which looks at some of the fiction that influenced Traveller, was influenced by Traveller, or is actually set in the Traveller universe. I think that one of the best ways to prepare yourself to run a game is to immerse yourself in its fiction, and thus get a real sense of its milieu.
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