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| rdfs:label | - Cancellation of Puffin Range
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| rdfs:comment | - Cancellation of Puffin Range covers the discontinuation of the Fighting Fantasy series under the Puffin Books imprint. For details on books under consideration at the time the range ended, see Unpublished Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks According to correspondence between gamebook writer Jonathan Green and Fighting Fantasy fan John Stock in 2001, Puffin had temporarily ceased commissioning new titles for the range in early 1995 (the last published title of the range, Curse of the Mummy, would appear in the October of the same year) after several years of roughly only three new titles each year.
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| abstract | - Cancellation of Puffin Range covers the discontinuation of the Fighting Fantasy series under the Puffin Books imprint. For details on books under consideration at the time the range ended, see Unpublished Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks According to correspondence between gamebook writer Jonathan Green and Fighting Fantasy fan John Stock in 2001, Puffin had temporarily ceased commissioning new titles for the range in early 1995 (the last published title of the range, Curse of the Mummy, would appear in the October of the same year) after several years of roughly only three new titles each year. At this point Puffin was considering a shake up to the range in an attempt to win back the young reading audience. The new plan that was finally settled on was to have all new titles be shorter than the previous standard with only 300 paragraphs and for older back-catalogue titles to be edited down (by then Fighting Fantasy editor Marc Gascoigne) to 300 and reprinted. The first title of this new strategy was to be book 60, Bloodbones by Jonathan Green as the original book scheduled for slot 60, Night of the Creature, was delayed due to other commitments on the part of author Marc Gascoigne. It was written after being formally commissioned in the January of 1996 (with publication set for October/November), Green also producing a black and white map for the book. Mike Posen was commissioned to supply the illustrations and these were submitted along with the completed book. No evidence currently exists to indicate that any other potential titles went beyond the "idea" stage to reach a formal commissioning. As 1996 moved into 1997 the chances of the range continuing dwindled further. It is not known at what point Puffin finally pulled the plug on the range or at which point the "rights" to the series reverted to Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone.
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