# Space Assassin

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{{Infobox book
|image=File:Space Assassin (Fighting Fantasy).jpg
|caption=Cover of the first edition
|author=[Andrew Chapman](/source/Andrew_Chapman_(writer))<ref name="HW"/>
|illustrator=[Geoffrey Senior](/source/Geoffrey_Senior)<ref name="HW"/>
|cover_artist=[Christos Achilleos](/source/Chris_Achilleos)<br>U.S. cover: R. Courtney<ref name="HW"/>
| genre = Science fiction
| series = [Fighting Fantasy](/source/List_of_Fighting_Fantasy_gamebooks)<br />{{unbulleted list
 | Puffin number: 12
 }}
|published=Puffin: 1985<ref name="HW"/><br>Dell/Laurel-Leaf: 1985<ref name="HW"/>
|media_type = Print ([Paperback](/source/Paperback))
|isbn =  0-14-031861-5
}}
'''''Space Assassin''''' is a single-player roleplaying gamebook written by Andrew Chapman, illustrated by Geoffrey Senior and originally published in 1985 by [Puffin Books](/source/Puffin_Books). It forms part of [Steve Jackson](/source/Steve_Jackson_(UK)) and [Ian Livingstone](/source/Ian_Livingstone)'s ''[Fighting Fantasy](/source/Fighting_Fantasy)'' series. It is the 12th in the series in the original Puffin series ({{ISBN|0-14-031861-5}}). There are currently no announced plans to republish the book as part of the modern Wizard series.

==Story==
''Space Assassin'' is a science-fiction scenario in which the player is an assassin who must fight his way through waves of mutant cyborgs on an orbiting spaceship as a mad scientist prepares to mutate all life on the planet below.<ref name="HW">{{cite book|last=Schick |first=Lawrence|authorlink=Lawrence Schick|title=Heroic Worlds: A History and Guide to Role-Playing Games|publisher=Prometheus Books |year=1991|isbn=0-87975-653-5|page=366}}</ref>

''Space Assassin'' is the second ''Fighting Fantasy'' book in the science fiction genre, the first being ''[Starship Traveller](/source/Starship_Traveller)''. The book places the player on the starship ''Vandervecken'', where a crazed scientist named Cyrus plans to unleash a hideous experiment upon the player's homeworld.

The player must pass through the labyrinthine ''Vandervecken'', overcoming robots, mutants, and other dangerous foes until they finally confront the scientist. If the player defeats him, the planet will be saved, and the game will end successfully.

==References==
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==External links==
* {{cite web
  | title=Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks on gamebooks.org
  | url=http://www.gamebooks.org/show_series.php?id=11}}
* {{cite web
  | title=Space Assassin on gamebooks.org
  | url=http://www.gamebooks.org/show_item.php?id=49}}
* {{cite web|title=Space Assassin on the Internet Archive record of the old fightingfantasy.com site |url=//www.fightingfantasy.com/ffb12.htm |url-status=unfit |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050403194418/http://www.fightingfantasy.com/ffb12.htm |archivedate=April 3, 2005 }}

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Category:1985 fiction books
Category:Fighting Fantasy gamebooks
Category:Books by Andrew Chapman (writer)
Category:Puffin Books books
Category:Space opera gamebooks

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