''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
''Fighting Fantasy'' is a series of single-player role-playing gamebooks created by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone. The first volume in the series was published in paperback by Puffin in 1982.
The series distinguished itself by mixing Choo ...
'' series. It is the 12th in the series in the original Puffin series (). There are currently no announced plans to republish the book as part of the modern Wizard series.
Story
''Space Assassin'' is a science-fiction scenario in which the player is an assassin who must fight his way through the mutant cyborgs on the orbiting spaceship of a mad scientist planning to mutating all life on the planet below.
''Space Assassin'' is the second ''Fighting Fantasy'' book in the science fiction genre, the first being ''
Starship Traveller
''Starship Traveller'' is a single-player Gamebook#Adventure gamebooks, adventure gamebook written by Steve Jackson (UK), Steve Jackson and illustrated by Peter Andrew Jones. Originally published by Puffin Books in 1983, the title is the fourth ga ...
''. 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 dangerous foes 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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1985 fiction books
Fighting Fantasy gamebooks
Books by Andrew Chapman (writer)
Puffin Books books
Space opera gamebooks