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FSpace Publications is a New Zealand based small press games publisher, founded by Martin Rait. It publishes science fiction, fantasy and world war 2 products.
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[[FSpace Publications]] is a New Zealand based small press games publisher, founded by [[Martin Rait]].  
  
For Traveller, it held a licence for The Meshan Saga fanzine (at the time many members of the firm were members of HIWG NZ and actively working on Meshan Sector in The New Era), and later held a licence from Marc Miller to publish Meshan Sector for the Classic Traveller dateline. Products weren't released due to a falling out with the primary author and the term of the licence expired before rewritten products could be delivered to market. These material still await release if a new agreement can be procured.
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== Description ([[Specifications]]) ==
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''Overview Synopsis:'' It publishes science fiction, fantasy and world war 2 products.
  
Many of the materials have been repurposed and released as generic products, typically under the Far Encounter and Far Frontiers product brands.
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=== ‎Traveller Artists & Authors ===
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''Artists:''
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* [[Aaron Barlow]]
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* Catherine Goodman
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* [[Martin Rait]]
  
Website: [https://www.fspacerpg.com]
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''Authors:''
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* [[Martin Rait]]
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* [[Philip Warnes]]
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plus one other that departed but is credited in [[The Meshan Saga]] issues prior to redaction after rights removal.
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''Editor:''
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* Robert Bettelheim
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''Inhouse contributors:''
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* Gary Ammundsen
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* David Hughes
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* Tony Harris
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=== External Link/s ===
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# EXTERNAL LINK: [https://www.fspacerpg.com FSpace RPG]
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=== [[Library Data|Library Data Entries]] (Public) ===
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# [[Meshan Sector]]
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# [[The Meshan Saga]]
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== Meta-history & Background ([[Dossier]]) ==
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For Traveller, it held a license for [[The Meshan Saga]] fanzine (at the time many members of the firm were members of HIWG NZ and actively working on Meshan Sector in The New Era), and later held a license from [[Marc Miller]] to publish [[Meshan Sector]] for the Classic Traveller dateline. Products weren't released due to a falling out with the primary author and the term of the license expired before rewritten products could be delivered to market. The commercial project was eventually binned due to the changing licensing landscape, but the original manuscripts have been released as fan level LBB style booklets listed here.
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Many of the materials have been repurposed and released as generic products, typically under the Far Encounters and Far Frontiers product brands of FSpace Publications.
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=== Bibliography-Ludography (Published Products) ===
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This publisher is best known for the following products:
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{{BookImageList|FSpace Publications}}
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== References ==
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{{Intermediate}}
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{{Sources}}
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{{MET|Publishers}}

Latest revision as of 23:50, 13 January 2025

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FSpace Publications is a New Zealand based small press games publisher, founded by Martin Rait.

Description (Specifications)[edit]

Overview Synopsis: It publishes science fiction, fantasy and world war 2 products.

‎Traveller Artists & Authors[edit]

Artists:

Authors:

plus one other that departed but is credited in The Meshan Saga issues prior to redaction after rights removal.

Editor:

  • Robert Bettelheim

Inhouse contributors:

  • Gary Ammundsen
  • David Hughes
  • Tony Harris

External Link/s[edit]

  1. EXTERNAL LINK: FSpace RPG

Library Data Entries (Public)[edit]

  1. Meshan Sector
  2. The Meshan Saga

Meta-history & Background (Dossier)[edit]

For Traveller, it held a license for The Meshan Saga fanzine (at the time many members of the firm were members of HIWG NZ and actively working on Meshan Sector in The New Era), and later held a license from Marc Miller to publish Meshan Sector for the Classic Traveller dateline. Products weren't released due to a falling out with the primary author and the term of the license expired before rewritten products could be delivered to market. The commercial project was eventually binned due to the changing licensing landscape, but the original manuscripts have been released as fan level LBB style booklets listed here.

Many of the materials have been repurposed and released as generic products, typically under the Far Encounters and Far Frontiers product brands of FSpace Publications.

Bibliography-Ludography (Published Products)[edit]

This publisher is best known for the following products:


References[edit]

This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Mongoose Publishing or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.