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ok so Azad,Shuggy and Parrises squares all count so that 3 of 5. Mr Cody please explain?? damage? ... let me play Cody's advocate :D Damage is the game in Iain M. Banks' " Consider Phlebas " novel. Simply described " Damage—the game banned everywhere. " I guess due to Azad 's presence this doesn't ...

#1 -- Jack Vance , To Live Forever #2 -- Dave Bowman , Odyssey novels #3 -- Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality series (correct, one universe) #4 -- Claire North's The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August #5 -- Conrad Nomikos , in Roger Zelazny's This Immortal Ball's in your court, ffutures!

Ok, 5 examples of SF works (books, movies, games, etc.), where the plot includes a main character's immortality.
Multiple examples of the same author allowed (but not the same "universe").

Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, from Ender's Game (& co.) by Orson Scott Card?

Surprises where least expected ... :lol: Asteroids - an example here . *This might make it legit for tetris fan-fiction to exist, not sure to what extent sci-fi, though :D That's #4 #5 is Paranoia and ffutures wins the race! *Not being a tabletop player, and not mentioning "PC games" as a restrictio...

I'm happy for it to count as an answer! :D The thing that threw me was the word "good" in your original question: Hah, the unsettling silence of the thread reached me ... I tried to be honest by naming it a "non-answer", though :) Warhammer 4k , agreed. ... and it's not only there are so many, but ...

does it have to be only online books/stories or can it be physical books to? Books (any type) qualify. It was the "written word" I was trying to capture. The original Wing Commander game came with some nice background fluff in the box, and it spawned a number of published novels, but I haven't read...

<taps the mic, clears throat> ... Is it that hard? Ok, will lower the number to 4, by mentioning the lore and the books around Eve Online. Most of the lore is freely available on their web site , and there are 3 books quite nicely diving deeper and melding with the lore: EVE: The Empyrean Age , EVE...

<eeny, meeny, miny, moe - *sighs*/> 5 examples of sci-fi games with good book/written (written, i.e. web published only) lore around them. Please support your opinion with some details, e.g., necessary/unexpected/ingenious extension to the game world, continuity/addition/development of characters, e...

Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke and the cover of Houses of the Holy?

It seems the cover design team also worked with Pink Floyd, T. Rex, and ELO (from this article in Rolling Stone)

If not for the games, I'd have "defected" a very long time ago. Nowadays the perspective for the gamers on Linux seems to get wider (besides the native games), with Valve's Proton, Lutris (both Wine based initiatives), and GPU pass-through solution (QEMU VM based). In my case the first two would be ...

Closed to "military sci-fi" subject, the Valor series by Tanya Huff: Valor's Choice, The Better Part of Valor, The Heart of Valor, Valor's Trial, The Truth of Valor.

Poul Anderson's Time Patrol series.[...] Poul Anderson's Time Patrol -- cake's icing -- here's the teaspoon, ffutures! [...] I've actually got a copy of the Ringworld RPG - it's pretty much unplayable, at least from the GM's point of view. Characters are hundreds of years old with ridiculous skill ...

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Tue Jun 04, 2019 9:38 am

Larry Niven Ringworld series....

It seems a game was already made for it ... sorry!

Good oodvertising so far -- 4 good, one to go -- waiting for the icing