Author and Media Guru and the Easy Way to go Stellar

Earlier this year advertising and media arts guru, Ramon Marett, from Exeter, saw his latest work published in stellar company.

His science-fiction story, The Easy Way Out, appears in an anthology released by Fantastic Books Publishing as part of their Elite project. Ramon’s work is part of Elite: Tales from the Frontier, which is one of five authorized books-of-the-game produced by Fantastic Books to accompany the award winning space trading game, Elite: Dangerous.

Since its release Elite: Tales from the Frontier has been climbing the fiction charts and gathering a crop of stellar reviews being called, ‘scintillating ... hilariously, side-splittingly funny ... worthy of the original Star Wars...’ Of Ramon’s story, one reviewer called it ‘a real roller-coaster of a story’.

What has made this anthology stand out from the crowd? ‘The Elite universe is set within the real one,’ says Fantastic Books’ CEO, Dan Grubb. ‘We don’t yet wander freely about the stars, but Elite is showing us how it will work once we have the technology. This is the science of the future.’

The Elite game was huge in the 1980s, bigger than Star Wars, and 2014 sees its long-awaited re-launch as Elite: Dangerous. As one of the authors of authorised fiction Ramon has had a sneak preview and calls the new game ‘an amazing achievement’.

Elite: Dangerous is officially launched 16 December.

Ramon will be appearing next year at Sci-Fi convention Fantasticon 2015.

About the books: Tales from the Frontier is now available from Fantastic Books Publishing along with their authorized Elite novels at https://www.fantasticbookspublishing.com/store/elite-2/ and from Amazon at http://bit.ly/EliteAtAmazon
Learn more about the anthology and its authors at www.bit.ly/RightOn

About the game: Further information about Elite: Dangerous can be found in this interview with the game’s creator, David Braben: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/12/24/elite-dangerous-david-braben-interview/

About FantastiCon 2015: Information on the Sci-Fi convention is available at http://www.fantasticon.co.uk/2014/11/fantasticon-2015.html