Agent of the Imperium, Marc Miller
Agent of the Imperium, Marc Miller
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Agent of the Imperium

Author: Marc Miller

Narrator: Steve Marvel

Unabridged: 10 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/16/2021


Synopsis

TO SAVE THE GALAXY, A DEAD HERO MUST RISE AGAIN!

Jonathan Bland is a Decider, empowered by the Emperor himself to deal with the inevitable crises of an empire. In the service of the Empire, he has killed more people than anyone in the history of Humanity, to save a hundred times as many. He died centuries ago, but they reactivate his recorded personality whenever a new threat appears. When the crisis is over, they expect he will meekly return to oblivion.

He has other ideas.


About Marc Miller

Marc Miller is an award-winning game designer with experience reaching back forty years. He has published more than seventy titles and hasn't yet stopped. Marc was the second role-playing game designer inducted into the Adventure Gaming Hall of Fame (of course, Gary Gygax was the first), and his role-playing game Traveller is in the Hall of Fame in its own name. Marc lives in Illinois with his wife, Darlene.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jason on July 31, 2016

As a longtime RPG player, I'm always on the lookout for fiction set in milieux in which I've played. IMHO, there is a serious lack of this, for some reason - more information about a setting makes it much easier to play in it. Traveller suffers more than most, so when I heard that its inventor Marc......more

Goodreads review by John on June 05, 2016

Surprisingly good book by a first time novelist. An innovative premise lets us travel to a number of iconic places and events in the history of the Traveller Universe in a way that makes sense. Episodic at first, some plot threads develop to tie things together as the story goes on. There are some ma......more

Goodreads review by Jeff on August 03, 2020

Marc Miller's Agent of the Imperium is a decent sci-fi novel, and given that it is (by design) tightly tied to a TTRPG universe created by the same author, the book is considerably better than it needs to be. By that, I mean that since Miller has a built-in audience of Traveller players, he could ea......more

Goodreads review by Will on April 04, 2017

Given that this is a book based on a table-top game, written by a first-time author, it really exceeded expectations. The premise was very cool, and ended up letting the book do some of the fun, "oh they're referencing something I already read about" stuff that usually only works in a long series. D......more

Goodreads review by Dan on January 25, 2016

It was an interesting book, but I feel it suffered with too many problems for me to really enjoy it. I have been a fan of the SF Role Playing Game "Traveller" since the late 1970s. The idea of a novel from the game's creator interested me as I hoped there would be insights into the universe of Travel......more