Dip Back into the Android Universe

Mar 1, 2011

I really enjoy playing Android from Fantasy Flight Games, despite the steep learning curve to really get the most out of the game. It is the only game I’ve ever played that really immerses you in a Blade Runner type detective story with fully fleshed out characters and plotlines. Well, FFG is taking you back into the Android universe with the release of a new novel, Free Fall by New York Times bestselling author William H. Keith.

I am as excited to hear about the new novel as I was about their upcoming line of Arkham Horror novels. It seems a great way to learn more about the settings and world of the board games.

Here’s what FFG has to say about the new release:

It is the future, and while the world has changed, crime has not. When an influential lawyer is brutally murdered at the top of the Beanstalk, a towering exoatmospheric elevator serving as Earth’s hub of interplanetary trade, Captain of Detectives Rick Harrison reluctantly accepts the case. Harrison’s investigation soon leads him from the sprawling megapolis of New Angeles to the distant moon base of Heinlein, where he must search for clues amongst an uncooperative assortment of bioroids, clones, and disgruntled human laborers.

Harrison quickly finds himself at the center of an ever-deepening conspiracy. Why did the killer use a mining laser, an unwieldy weapon even in microgravity? What is the true connection between the victim and a powerful anti-android lobby? And on the hunt for a killer, a hardened cop is faced with the one question he never expected: What is the true definition of humanity?

You can read the full press release here