If you'd like to get some Elite: Reclamation digital posters, here's your chance. 
http://www.drewwagar.com/progress-report/fantasticon-2016/
Cheers,
Drew.
http://www.drewwagar.com/progress-report/fantasticon-2016/
Cheers,
Drew.
That's cool. I think Fantasticon looks great, unfortunately I won't be able to make it but it's worth supporting, if only so it will continue and I can try and make it in future years!If you'd like to get some Elite: Reclamation digital posters, here's your chance.
http://www.drewwagar.com/progress-report/fantasticon-2016/
Thanks for the reply on the second edition of Reclamation. I'm sure there's demand for hardbacks, but they need to sell the ones they found in the back of the warehouse before they make anymore. I wish I had time to take part in the in-game Reclamation story, but unfortunately my commander is never in the right place at the right time, for long enough to do anything before it seems to move on; I guess that's the risk with a real-time multiplayer game.
Cheers
Hi Drew
Any chance you would be able to update your book on the Google Play store? I tried to buy it but its like a scanned pdf and unreadable unless zoomed in few times on my 5 inch screen phone. And it can get difficult as we have to scroll around to read the rest of the lines.
Most books are text based and we can change the text size but not with Reclamation.
Any chance you would be able to update your book on the Google Play store? I tried to buy it but its like a scanned pdf and unreadable unless zoomed in few times on my 5 inch screen phone. And it can get difficult as we have to scroll around to read the rest of the lines.
Most books are text based and we can change the text size but not with Reclamation.
All of the Elite: Dangerous novels on Google Play suffer from the same problem. I think this is an issue with the way Fantastic Books delivered the content to Google's "Play" store.
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No, not quite all of them... [wink]
I found this quite frustrating, actually... Fortunately, I bought a 10" tablet for other reasons and it worked out in the end... Would have been nice to be able to read it on my phone, though, and enlarge the text.
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Publisher reports book has been updated, though it may take a little while to apply.
Cheers,
Drew.
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There is now an Elite Reclamation Lore beacon in the Prism system.
Cheers,
Drew.
Awesome! I finished Reclamation this week Drew, thought it was absolutely stunning, up their with the best space opera. Just out at the moment exploring for the Cg but plan on making a visit to Prism on my way back so will check out the beacon.
There is now an Elite Reclamation Lore beacon in the Prism system.
Cheers,
Drew.
Oh, nice! You know, in all this time I have yet to actually visit Prism. I keep intending to every time I get back to the bubble but as soon as I get home something always seems to pull me back out into the deep.
Folks,
Those lovely chaps over at Lave Radio cleaned up the dingy interior of the Orange Sidewinder so I could end a 3 year absence and return for an interview, talking about Elite Dangerous Premonition, Shadeward and Lords of Midnight, with minor diversions into homemade telescopes, exploding computers and the squeak in the seat-tilt control... Thanks to the incomparable CMDR Chris Forrester.
http://laveradio.com/writers-interview-21-drew-wagar-elite-dangerous-premonition/
Cheers,
Drew.
Those lovely chaps over at Lave Radio cleaned up the dingy interior of the Orange Sidewinder so I could end a 3 year absence and return for an interview, talking about Elite Dangerous Premonition, Shadeward and Lords of Midnight, with minor diversions into homemade telescopes, exploding computers and the squeak in the seat-tilt control... Thanks to the incomparable CMDR Chris Forrester.
http://laveradio.com/writers-interview-21-drew-wagar-elite-dangerous-premonition/
Cheers,
Drew.
For those of you who don't know the story of my original Elite Dangerous book, you may want to take a look at the Official Guide to Elite Reclamation. It's a free PDF.
http://www.drewwagar.com/downloads/ERGuidebook.pdf
Cheers,
Drew.
http://www.drewwagar.com/downloads/ERGuidebook.pdf
Cheers,
Drew.
Just discovered I had a whole bunch of review on Audible as well as Amazon (I assumed they were the same thing). Thanks to those who dropped a note about the audiobook version! Much appreciated. (And props to Toby Longworth and Chris Jarvis of course.)
http://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Sci-Fi-...f=a_search_c4_1_1_srTtl?qid=1482357554&sr=1-1
Cheers,
Drew.
http://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Sci-Fi-...f=a_search_c4_1_1_srTtl?qid=1482357554&sr=1-1
Cheers,
Drew.
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I just finished this book this am, I started it Monday a real page turner! [heart]
the only thing I know is it was far to short
simply a stellar work; many thanks!
the only thing I know is it was far to short
simply a stellar work; many thanks!
Thanks Ready Eagle - glad you enjoyed it. New book coming soon.
On that note. I'm signing off for 2016. Last blog of the year. Thanks to all the fans!
http://www.drewwagar.com/progress-report/signing-off-for-2016/
Cheers,
Drew.
On that note. I'm signing off for 2016. Last blog of the year. Thanks to all the fans!
http://www.drewwagar.com/progress-report/signing-off-for-2016/
Cheers,
Drew.
Don't usually post reviews of my books on here, but this was (as well as being very positive!) perhaps the best description of what I was trying to do with the Elite: Reclamation plot. Kahina is/was a deliberately divisive character. I'm hoping to do even better with Premonition!
Cheers,
Drew.
"I read a lot of great SF books in 2016, but this is the only one that had me thinking, ‘I fancy being that character’ or ‘I could do that, if only I was good at flying and the fictional universe existed’. Well, in a way it does, because this novel is the first official tie in of the new ‘Elite: Dangerous’ gaming universe. I remember the original game from the 80s but didn’t realise the great Robert Holdstock had written a novella to go with it. In keeping with that dynamic, Drew Wagar contacted Frontier, the producers of the game, and asked to write a new version. After a ballsy (and lengthy) Kickstarter campaign ‘Elite: Reclamation’ was published.
It was well worth the hassle. I’m aware of the contemporary Elite gaming universe but haven’t played it; however, this book works splendidly as a stand-alone piece, with the Elite mythos and technology functioning as a series of intriguing textures rather than the exclusive preserve of those who know how to play the game.
Indeed, the novel has a literary boldness that a wholly independent novel might not have got away with, not least because Kahina, its young female protagonist, is so bracingly amoral. There are a couple of scenes where her ruthless single-mindedness echoes that of Gulliver Foyle in ‘The Stars My Destination’; the standard of fictional intergalactic y against which all others are measured. And yet for some reason we care about her. Perhaps it’s because she is an outcast within her own imperial family; her dark hair regularly remarked on as an aberration in a family of fascistic blondes; her beauty of the striking kind rather than the anodyne, enhanced good looks of her two uber-y sisters, who still require over a day in makeup in a society that has developed travel via hyperspace. Imagine a Tarantino-in-space version of Cinderella in which the older sisters are ugly on the inside, everyone gets literally slaughtered at the ball and then Cinders blasts everything to, well, cinders.
Perhaps we, and the male characters who assist Kahina, love her because she is so unapologetically herself, despite beginning her adventure in a state of amnesia. Stuck up and entitled, she is also brave, clever and competent. On more than one occasion it is not clear how she will get out of the various scrapes she finds herself in through no fault of her own. Even when times are good she is bullied, then witnesses a truly nasty massacre, then is stabbed to death by her trusted mentor. That sequence in particular had me checking how many pages were left as the story seemed to be unequivocally over; always a good sign in fiction. It gets worse for Kahina from then on, but throughout she is bold and authoritative, often amusingly so.
She is well served by a robustly imagined, very satisfying galactic conspiracy of a depressingly plausible kind. If ‘The Phantom Menace’ was an SF political thriller straining to be a kids’ movie, ‘Elite: Reclamation’ shows what it could have been in better hands. Neither the Empire, the Federation or the Rebels are anything other than a bunch of sociopaths and we only end up rooting for the Empire because Kahina is part of it.
Edit - spoiler tags for the ending.
This novel is a gripping, great fun read; a political space opera with a lot of justifiable twists, memorable characters and a fascinating milieu. It completely drew me into the Elite universe and I will definitely seek out more books in this world and by this author."
Cheers,
Drew.
"I read a lot of great SF books in 2016, but this is the only one that had me thinking, ‘I fancy being that character’ or ‘I could do that, if only I was good at flying and the fictional universe existed’. Well, in a way it does, because this novel is the first official tie in of the new ‘Elite: Dangerous’ gaming universe. I remember the original game from the 80s but didn’t realise the great Robert Holdstock had written a novella to go with it. In keeping with that dynamic, Drew Wagar contacted Frontier, the producers of the game, and asked to write a new version. After a ballsy (and lengthy) Kickstarter campaign ‘Elite: Reclamation’ was published.
It was well worth the hassle. I’m aware of the contemporary Elite gaming universe but haven’t played it; however, this book works splendidly as a stand-alone piece, with the Elite mythos and technology functioning as a series of intriguing textures rather than the exclusive preserve of those who know how to play the game.
Indeed, the novel has a literary boldness that a wholly independent novel might not have got away with, not least because Kahina, its young female protagonist, is so bracingly amoral. There are a couple of scenes where her ruthless single-mindedness echoes that of Gulliver Foyle in ‘The Stars My Destination’; the standard of fictional intergalactic y against which all others are measured. And yet for some reason we care about her. Perhaps it’s because she is an outcast within her own imperial family; her dark hair regularly remarked on as an aberration in a family of fascistic blondes; her beauty of the striking kind rather than the anodyne, enhanced good looks of her two uber-y sisters, who still require over a day in makeup in a society that has developed travel via hyperspace. Imagine a Tarantino-in-space version of Cinderella in which the older sisters are ugly on the inside, everyone gets literally slaughtered at the ball and then Cinders blasts everything to, well, cinders.
Perhaps we, and the male characters who assist Kahina, love her because she is so unapologetically herself, despite beginning her adventure in a state of amnesia. Stuck up and entitled, she is also brave, clever and competent. On more than one occasion it is not clear how she will get out of the various scrapes she finds herself in through no fault of her own. Even when times are good she is bullied, then witnesses a truly nasty massacre, then is stabbed to death by her trusted mentor. That sequence in particular had me checking how many pages were left as the story seemed to be unequivocally over; always a good sign in fiction. It gets worse for Kahina from then on, but throughout she is bold and authoritative, often amusingly so.
She is well served by a robustly imagined, very satisfying galactic conspiracy of a depressingly plausible kind. If ‘The Phantom Menace’ was an SF political thriller straining to be a kids’ movie, ‘Elite: Reclamation’ shows what it could have been in better hands. Neither the Empire, the Federation or the Rebels are anything other than a bunch of sociopaths and we only end up rooting for the Empire because Kahina is part of it.
Edit - spoiler tags for the ending.
She has many worthy opponents; from the Machiavellian diplomats whose ironic dialogue is often laugh-out loud funny but never quite slips into parody to Dalk, Kahina’s mentor, who is working so many angles even he seems to lose his way. However, by far the most fearsome is the gleefully sadistic Octavia, a beautiful but ageing cybernetic pirate who has adopted the Darth Vader approach to employee relations. Octavia wants Kahina’s body; indeed, she wants to be her by swapping minds as one would change cars. Poor Kahina will end up with the husk Octavia has worn out, while Octavia will get another lease of life as a fit young woman.
There is a sexual undertone to this desire but the main reason for Octavia’s pursuit is that she and Kahina are a genetic match. That they could be literally interchangeable says a lot about their relative natures; Kahina could easily end up like Octavia even if the latter’s plan doesn’t come to fruition. Much of the hidden dynamism of the story is to do with Kahina’s choice about which aspects of her nature she listens to: the part she inherited from her father, a man who sanctioned a nuclear attack on an undefended moon with predictably horrible results, or her companion Luko, who senses that Kahina’s true nature will draw her out to the stars.
There is a sexual undertone to this desire but the main reason for Octavia’s pursuit is that she and Kahina are a genetic match. That they could be literally interchangeable says a lot about their relative natures; Kahina could easily end up like Octavia even if the latter’s plan doesn’t come to fruition. Much of the hidden dynamism of the story is to do with Kahina’s choice about which aspects of her nature she listens to: the part she inherited from her father, a man who sanctioned a nuclear attack on an undefended moon with predictably horrible results, or her companion Luko, who senses that Kahina’s true nature will draw her out to the stars.
This novel is a gripping, great fun read; a political space opera with a lot of justifiable twists, memorable characters and a fascinating milieu. It completely drew me into the Elite universe and I will definitely seek out more books in this world and by this author."
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Nicely written review, but you need to spoiler flag the penultimate paragraph, there's a little too much giving the game away there.