Re: Re: books

My brother has this one--I remember reading it many moons ago, and
thinking,
gee, I really want the non-earthers to win!  That Federal government
doesn't
seem too worried about other folks...

----- Original Message -----
From: staci & mark Drake <THE-DRAKE@webtv.net>
To: <gzg-digest@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 1:29 AM
Subject: Fwd: Re: books

> Part 2 of my summary--know it is long but it contains more material
for
> gaming,I believe.
> Feedback welcome--Mark
>
> Great Space Battles--stories of space battles involving human
forces;only remember @ 3 of them:
1.small story of human mutants-banished from earth after becoming
victims of proxima nuke strikes from previous book (inference of how
ugly the prejudice of humans can be seen in the tale,I remember)--take
up residence in outer rim worlds and turn to space piracy until smashed
by FLEA-Federal Law Enforcement Agency (good illustration of power
armored recon trooper hovering off of ground shooting into crowd of
mutants trying to capture him)

2.FLEA smashes another band of illicit ship/spare parts traders;the
ships and parts were coming from a planet that was called "the spaceship
graveyard"--for some unknown reason ships from many eras and races were
orbiting around this planet until discovered by smugglers (one of the
ships was us space shuttle

3.main story dealt with human colonists in a system of worlds discover
and attacked by unknown race;earth sends fleet to investigate and find
underground cities on one planet,but cannot find out identity of

Very exciting--so much soI still remeber most of the relevant details
and many of the illustrations some 18 years after owning this
book--would love to have it again if possible--definitely scenario rich
for gzg games!