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About the site

This site is intended as a means of archiving and displaying the series of short stories inspired by the Frontier: First Encounters computer game and written by me, Paolo Mariani.

It is kindly hosted by the excellent site Alioth.net.

Thanks to André Schmidt for the Word/PDF-conversions.

About the stories

In the spring of 2001, I dusted off my copy of Frontier: First Encounters and started playing it for the first time in years. The game was as brilliant and engrossing as ever, and just to really get into the atmosphere, I read the short stories in 'Beyond The Edge', a small collection of stories that came with the game. These excellent little stories inspired me to try to write one myself.
I called the story 'Courier' and posted it on the alt.fan.elite newsgroup. In the days after, I received some encouraging feedback from the users of the newsgroup. So I wrote another one, entitled 'Unlikely Coincidences', and people liked that as well. Obviously, I was on a roll. ;)
To date I have written nine stories from the Frontier universe, all posted on alt.fan.elite.

The stories on this site can pretty much be read in the order in which they were written, except that one should probably read 'A Necessary Measure' first of all (for a coherent chronology).

If you have comments or suggestions, please feel free to contact me at the address below.

Thanks for visiting !

Paolo