Fighting Fantasy co-founders pen two new books for series' 40th anniversary

Fighting Fantasy co-founders Sir Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson have written two new titles in the game books franchise for Scholastic UK, marking the series’ 40th anniversary.

Catherine Bell, co-group m.d., acquired world rights in Shadow of the Giants by Livingstone and Secrets of Salamonis by Jackson directly from the authors. Both books will publish in paperback this September, to mark 40 years since the first book, The Warlock of Firetop Mountain (Scholastic). 

The plot of Shadow of the Giants features an ancient artefact discovered inside Firetop Mountain, whose evil magic unleashes terrifying Iron Giants upon the world of Allansia. It is Livingstone’s third new Fighting Fantasy book in recent years. 

Jackson’s book Secrets of Salamonis is his first new title for 33 years, since the publication of The Trolltooth Wars (Scholastic) in 1989. Having arrived in the City of Salamonis following a run of a bad luck, the adventurer must turn to the Salamonian Adventurers’ Guild, who will offer the player quests such as defeating the Batterpillar.