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'A young killer, addicted to electronic games, is recruited by aliens as a pilot in an interstellar war.'
Source: Author's website. (Sighted: 16/6/2014)
Notes
From the author's website: Note that this story was written and published some years before the similarly plotted 1984 movie The Last Star Fighter – and the special effects are much better in the story! (Sighted: 16/6/2014)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Appears in:
yLiNQLiterature in North Queenslandvol.11no.2Elizabeth Perkins
(editor),
1983-1984Z6032931983-1984periodical issue 1983-1984
(
1983-1984
)
pg.64-66
Note: Revised version.
Appears in:
yTechno TerrorPaul Collins
(editor),
Meredith Costain
(editor),
South Melbourne:Addison Wesley Longman Australia,1999Z15526811999selected work children's fiction children's science fiction horror 'Technology makes all our lives easier ... or does it? Could computers take over from people? Could the games we play rule our lives? Have we created a monster? Patricia Bernard, Rick Kennett and Ken Catran present a world where machines are in control ...' (Back Cover).South Melbourne:Addison Wesley Longman Australia,1999
(
1999
)
Note: With title: Ace!
Appears in:
yTechno TerrorPaul Collins
(editor),
Meredith Costain
(editor),
South Melbourne:Addison Wesley Longman Australia,1999Z15526811999selected work children's fiction children's science fiction horror 'Technology makes all our lives easier ... or does it? Could computers take over from people? Could the games we play rule our lives? Have we created a monster? Patricia Bernard, Rick Kennett and Ken Catran present a world where machines are in control ...' (Back Cover).Littleton:Sundance Publishing,2000