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February 5, 2015 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Author Cecil Castelluci is Offering a Book Based Gaming Package to Libaries

February 5, 2015 by Karen Jensen, MLS   1 comments

Author Cecil Castelluci (Tin Star) has made a table top RPG for Tin Star, kind of like D&D, where you play aliens who dock on the space station and interact with the characters from the book on a mini adventure. You don’t have to have read the book to play the game, or play the game to read the book.

It’s a free download which you can find here:

Rules here http://www.macteenbooks.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/TinStar_QuickstartRules.pdf

Adventure here http://www.macteenbooks.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/TinStar_ASimpleFavor.pdf)

Castelluci has some other goodies to offer while supplies last, so email for more information at misscecil@gmail.com

About Tin Star:

On their way to start a new life, Tula and her family travel on the Prairie Rose, a colony ship headed to a planet in the outer reaches of the galaxy. All is going well until the ship makes a stop at a remote space station, the Yertina Feray, and the colonist’s leader, Brother Blue, beats Tula within an inch of her life. An alien, Heckleck, saves her and teaches her the ways of life on the space station.

When three humans crash land onto the station, Tula’s desire for escape becomes irresistible, and her desire for companionship becomes unavoidable. But just as Tula begins to concoct a plan to get off the space station and kill Brother Blue, everything goes awry, and suddenly romance is the farthest thing from her mind.

The sequel, Stone in the Sky, comes out February 24th, 2015 from Roaring Book Press:

In this thrilling follow-up to Tin Star, Tula will need to rely on more than just her wits to save her only home in the sky.

After escaping death a second time, Tula Bane is now even thirstier for revenge. She spends much of her time in the Tin Star Café on the Yertina Feray—the space station she calls home. But when it’s discovered that the desolate and abandoned planet near the station has high quantities of a precious resource, the once sleepy space station becomes a major player in intergalactic politics. In the spirit of the Gold Rush, aliens from all over the galaxy race to cash in—including Tula’s worst enemy.

 

Filed under: games, gaming, gaming in libraries

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About Karen Jensen, MLS

Karen Jensen has been a Teen Services Librarian for almost 30 years. She created TLT in 2011 and is the co-editor of The Whole Library Handbook: Teen Services with Heather Booth (ALA Editions, 2014).

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