Fiction What's your favourite short story? ("Life on the Frontier" + "Further stories of...")

What's your favourite short story? ("Life on the Frontier" + "Further stories of...")

Which of the short stories that were included with Frontier and FFE was your favourite?
 
i dont have a favorate i enjoyed all of the stories from life on the frontier and i love the way they all interconnect with each other at the end
 
i dont have a favorate i enjoyed all of the stories from life on the frontier and i love the way they all interconnect with each other at the end
Yeah, that was a good read overall. Unfortunately Further Stories didn't seem to interconnect (two of the stories had even been published elsewhere) but The Acrobat In Black and Inevitable Consequences were among the better ones.
 
Yeah, that was a good read overall. Unfortunately Further Stories didn't seem to interconnect (two of the stories had even been published elsewhere) but The Acrobat In Black and Inevitable Consequences were among the better ones.



Speaking of Further Stories - I must admit, I didn' really understand "Invisible Enemy". Who controlled the child?

The Imperials, the Thargoids? Another faction?
 
never read further stories which i assume came with ffe,as i never owned ffe thanks to mr commadore usa throwing all his money down the toilet thus killing of the amiga games market not long before it came out.
 
I quite liked "The Outer Limits" by Moira Sheehan, the story of an explorer included with FE2 stories.


My favourite as well, together with "When A Plan Works Well".

Steve, on your website you're saying that A number of these stories do not appear to be set in the Elite/Frontier Universe ("Further Stories")

http://www.frontierastro.co.uk/Fiction/frontierfiction.html

What do you mean? I've read them all and they all had connections to the Frontier universe (well, except "Lucifer Falling")
 
Steve, on your website you're saying that A number of these stories do not appear to be set in the Elite/Frontier Universe ("Further Stories")

What do you mean? I've read them all and they all had connections to the Frontier universe (well, except "Lucifer Falling")

Well, one is a number :D

Seriously, I think we agree that Lucifer Falling is not an FEU (Frontier Elite Universe) story. Children Of A Greater God had been published elsewhere before it made it into Further Stories. Also, Invisible Enemy seems to have little reference to the FEU, despite it being written by Kathy Braben.

I really should re-read the Further Stories, to be sure of my facts, but at the moment I'm into Eric Brown's Bengal Station trilogy and I don't want to get confused :)
 
Well, one is a number :D

Seriously, I think we agree that Lucifer Falling is not an FEU (Frontier Elite Universe) story. Children Of A Greater God had been published elsewhere before it made it into Further Stories. Also, Invisible Enemy seems to have little reference to the FEU, despite it being written by Kathy Braben.

I really should re-read the Further Stories, to be sure of my facts, but at the moment I'm into Eric Brown's Bengal Station trilogy and I don't want to get confused :)

Children Of a Greater God seems to be based in the Frontier Universe, it plays on the Sirius Corporation world.

In Invisible Enemy hyperspace clouds are mentioned. By the way, is Kathy Braben David Braben's wife?
 
You wont be disappointed. I read Dune when I first started at college, and I literally couldn't put it down. I read it on the bus to and from classes, breaks, at home, on the toilet, the lot. I think it took me three days to get through it, and it was awesome. The movie came out not long after and was all kinds of suck, but that's not surprising. When you read the book and then think about how to make a movie from it, you'd think it unfilmable. The actors they picked are an excellent fit for the character descriptions, but then it goes haywire.

Oh, dont bother too much with the rest of the books, they grow exponentially worse as he weaves in the stuff from the film and makes stuff up out of thin air not mentioned anywhere previously.
 
I always liked the classic Foundation series by Isaac Asimov, although it took me an age to read them all, also the Red, Green & Blue Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley-Robinson. A very realistic vision of how to colonise Mars.
 
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