Sir Ian Livingstone will be visiting the Forbidden Planet Megastore London on Saturday 8th November from 2:00pm-3:00pm to sign copies of the Collector’s Edition of the original Fighting Fantasy gamebook, The Warlock of Firetop Mountain.
This is a ticketed event. Tickets cost £5.00 + fees, which is redeemable against the cost of purchasing the book at the event. Tickets are available to purchase here. (Please note that a ticket is required for each person who wishes to attend this event.)
Last Saturday, Fighting Fantasy Fest 5 took over the University of West London in Ealing for a day dedicated to your favourite gamebook series.
A huge thank you to everyone who attended, including the traders who came along, and to all our guests, but especially Guests of Honour artist Iain McCaig and Fighting Fantasy co-creator Sir Ian Livingstone.
There is no other event quite like Fighting Fantasy Fest. After all, where else could you see a Hollywood blockbuster character designer dance a jig while a knight of the realm plays blues harmonica?!?
Sir Ian was inundated with people wanting him to sign his new books, The Dungeon on Blood Island (number 72 in the series if you're counting from the beginning) and the #1 Bestseller Magic Realms: The Art of Fighting Fantasy.
If you were not able to attend FFF5, you have another chance to grab yourself a signed copy of the books at Forbidden Planet, on Saturday 14th September, from 2:00-3:00pm, where Jonathan Green, co-author of Magic Realms, will also be in attendance.
Sir Ian Livingstone will be signing Magic Realms: The Art of Fighting Fantasy at the Forbidden Planet Megastore in London, on Saturday 14 September 2024, from 2:00pm to 3:00pm.
He will be joined by his co-author, the FF author and historian, Jonathan Green. To find out more about the event, visit ForbiddenPlanet.com.
On Friday evening, Sir Ian Livingstone visited the Forbidden Planet Megastore in London to sign many, many copies of his new book Dice Men: The Origin Story of Games Workshop, which is currently a No.1 Bestseller on Amazon.
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If you came along and picked up a copy of Dice Men: The Origin Story of Games Workshop, thank you. And don't forget Sir Ian will be signing at Forbidden Planet Newcastle on Wednesday 16th November from 17:00 - 18:30.
It never seems like the right time to start a business.
The idea to start our own company first cropped up during one of our many ‘beer and a board game’ sessions after work at our flat.
And when Steve began writing reviews of board games for Games & Puzzles magazine, we all got even more interested in the idea. So, one day, we did. It was January 1975.
Since then, Games Workshop has grown into a cornerstone of the UK gaming industry. From the launch of Dungeons and Dragons from the back of a van, to creating the Fighting Fantasy series, co-founders Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson tell their remarkable story for the first time.
An initial order of only six copies was enough for Games Workshop to secure exclusive rights to sell Dungeons and Dragons in the whole of Europe. Hobbyists themselves, Steve and Ian’s passion for the game soon spread and in 1977 they opened the first Games Workshop store. They went on to become bestselling authors and created an entirely new genre of interactive stories.
Dice Men is more than just the story of an iconic shop which has changed gaming for ever, it’s an insight into the birth of an industry.
Games Workshop has grown from its humble beginnings to become a global company listed on the London Stock Exchange, a FTSE 250 company with a market capitalisation of more than £3.5 billion.
Dice Men is the story of the rollercoaster early years.
Sir Ian was recently interviewed about his new book Dice Men for the BBC's World Business Report, which you can watch here from 21 minutes 30 seconds in.
Assassins of Allansia, by Ian Livingstone
Sorcery! 2: Kharé - Cityport of Traps, by Steve Jackson
Caverns of the Snow Witch, by Ian Livingstone
Tomorrow, Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone - co-creators of the bestselling, global Fighting Fantasy gamebook phenomenon - will be at the Forbidden Planet Megastore in London, signing copies of the latest batch of FF titles re-released by Scholastic Books.
There's just one week to go until the doors of the Forbidden Planet Megastore in London open, ready for the next Fighting Fantasy signing event.Fighting Fantasy fans have been excited by the prospect of a new title written by Charlie Higson ever since it was announced at Fighting Fantasy Fest 2 back in September.
