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3.40am actually.. so yeah, technically it kept me awake half the morning..

Back to Selezen's question.

I have no idea, and up to now I only came across this (WARNING! Sanity-leak detected! Leave the area immediatly!).

What about another hint?

That's a very silly site...

The main character fought in a famous war on his home world 5 years before being chased into space by the spider things.

Not much of a clue, maybe, but the clues I keep thinking of make it too easy. I'm trying to make it a hard one to search for on Google...

No more guesses?

Another clue then?

OK, the series is set in a fantasy multiverse. Space travel is made possible by MAGIC!!!

Aha – I think I've got it. Might we be talking about the Cloakmaster novels, set in TSR's "Spelljammer" universe? The Wikipedia entry doesn't mention any spider-aliens but the rest of it seems pretty close!

Darn, I KNEW that clue would be too much!

Yes, it's the Cloakmaster Cycle. The spider-like aliens are the Neogi. If I'd said "half spider half snake" then that would probably have given it away too.

Well done, Jarbrain! Your turn...

Okay ... hmm. This will be more of a test of people's research abilities than anything else, I suspect, so Google away!

Name the game: published in the same year as Elite (but don't let that fool you), it was for three players and featured two alien races with radically different interstellar travel technologies, with humanity sandwiched in between. It's unusual not least for the fact that each of the three races represented are significantly different and yet reasonably balanced.

Web & Starship?

Disembodied wrote:

Okay ... hmm. This will be more of a test of people's research abilities than anything else, I suspect, so Google away!

Name the game: published in the same year as Elite (but don't let that fool you), it was for three players and featured two alien races with radically different interstellar travel technologies, with humanity sandwiched in between. It's unusual not least for the fact that each of the three races represented are significantly different and yet reasonably balanced.

Starcraft?

goran wrote:

Web & Starship?

Goran gets it first time, and wins himself 100 geek-points!

Interestingly (for a given value of "interesting"), someone has had a go at making a computer version of the original board game – Windows only, though. Not a bad idea, since it should really have been a computer game from the get-go. A good idea unfortunately snookered by a complicated game-mechanic which didn't really work with counters and a paper board ...

So it`s my turn now...

Spaceship lands on a "uninhabited" planet in search for lost previous expedition, only to pick a fight it cannot win.

And it`s a book.

Ghostplanet Mars? By Peter Dubina?

No, not anywhere near earth.

"The Invincible" by Stanislav Lem, perhaps?

Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invincible

And the winner is....

LEEESTRAAAADAAAAAAAEEEEEEeeee....

well done. What gave me up?