The Science Fiction In Traveller: A Reader’s Guide to Traveller Role-Playing Fiction by Shannon Appelcline

Author:Shannon Appelcline [Appelcline, Shannon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Far Future Enterprises

Chapter Seventeen

The Backwards Mask (I)

The Backwards Mask (I), by Paul Brunette

Publisher: Far Future Enterprises (2011)

Style: ★★★

Traveller Substance: ★★★★

Location: Vinooks/Srys (Old Expanses 0613)

Date: 1202

The Story

Brunette’s The Backwards Mask picks up right where To Dream of Chaos (1995) left off. The Hornet is in the Wilds, having dealt with problems of high-tech weaponry on the planet of Mexit. Now they just need to make it back home.

But, things are never that easy in the New Era. Another Coalition starship, the Cymbeline Victrix, has gone missing outside of the Area of Operations. When the Hornet tracks it to the planet of Vinooks, they find a number of mysteries, among them: the floating corpse of a liner ship whose captain has gone mad; the crew of the Cymbeline Victrix planetside, all surprisingly apathetic about rescue; and a planet with a tech level surpassing that of the Last Imperium that somehow survived the collapse.

I won’t spoil the resolution of these mysteries, but I will make one comment about the ending of the book: despite being the final book in Brunette’s intended trilogy, this book is even less conclusive end than the previous one. The mysteries and plots of this particular book are wrapped up with just one dangler. But that dangler is linked to new plots — leading to what perhaps would have been another trilogy of books in the New Era, stretching from 1203 onward. Now, of course, it’s mainly a historical curiosity.

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