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Originally Posted by Ryecatcher
Yeah I love all these but especially the Fighting Fantasy books, which I played most as a kid. I've spent the last few years casually collecting gamebooks from ebay or secondhand bookshops and I've built up a decent collection including most of the FFs. What's most surprising is that they tend to be every bit as fun as they were back then. It's a shame the genre as a whole kind of went away.
Did you know that the FF books are undergoing a reprinting? Wizard Books are doing them. Not in the same order that they originally came out, and with a number of omissions so far, but they are up to 26 books. There are even entirely new books out and on the slate. Bloodbones - the latest published FF - is a new book, and there's another new one due this year.
Lone Wolf is getting the same treatment. Mongoose Publishing is reprinting all the original books with some tweaks by Joe Dever himself, and best of all he's writing four new books to finish off the original saga properly.
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Yeah, that'll be the second new one they've thrown in with the reprints.
I'm more chaing up the original series myself, although they oddly don;t seem to be quite as valuable as some of the rare Lone Wolf. Just discoeverefd that 6 of the latter I had lying aroudn were worth £20-£50 each, which caught me by surprise.
On the downside, I'm going to have a headache getting the other 7 Legends of Lone Wolf now. 5 of them are rare, and I don't see them being reprinted or finished. Pity, as they were unsually good fantasy novels generally, not just gamebook spin-offs.
4 new books? Will these be at the end of the New Order lot? I sort of lost interest around volume 28 (although, oddly enough, it's the poor New Order series that seem to be the valuable ones. No accounting for taste)
Oh, another point of interest- although Fighting Fantasy are generally credited with being the originators of the gamebook, I have material evidence to the contrary; namely a political "gamebook" (although the term was obviously unknown back then) from 1954.
