Red Storm Entertainment Inc. Signs Best-Selling Science Fiction/Fantasy Author Anne Mccaffrey
Red Storm Entertainment Inc. today announced that Anne McCaffrey has signed an exclusive agreement to create a new computer game title.
MORRISVILLE, NC -- January 9, 1998-- Red Storm Entertainment Inc. today announced that Anne McCaffrey, best-selling author of Science Fiction/Fantasy fiction, including her popular Catteni series, has signed an exclusive agreement to create a new computer game title. The best-selling fiction series pits an imaginative and futuristic Earth against an alien race bent on using humans as slaves.
"We’re honored and delighted to be working with Anne McCaffrey,” said Doug Littlejohns, president and CEO of Red Storm Entertainment, Inc. "Our agreement with Anne reflects Red Storm Entertainment’s strategy to work with top authors in their fields to create innovative, enjoyable products that appeal to the widest possible range of consumers. Anne has an enormous following worldwide, and we trust that they will be as excited as we are that her brilliant storytelling will be brought to the computer screen.”
"Anne McCaffrey’s novels are fantasy at its best and we are pleased to bring her unique vision of the world to the gaming community,” said Tom Clancy, chairman of Red Storm Entertainment. "We predict that our first game together will be one of the most exciting and unusual titles for 1999."
"My new venture with Red Storm Entertainment will allow me to take my work to the exciting new world of interactive computer gameplay," said Anne McCaffrey. "Red Storm Entertainment’s vision and creative development team greatly impressed me and I’m looking forward to working closely with them to invent a new medium in which to tell my stories."
Anne McCaffrey is an internationally known best-selling author of over 60 books, which have sold over 24 million copies worldwide. Her first novel, Restoree, was published in l967, and Freedom’s Landing, the first book in the Catteni series, was published in 1995. The Catteni series includes a new book, Freedom’s Challenge, slated for release in 1998. Born in Cambridge Massachusetts, McCaffrey now lives in Ireland.
"We’re honored and delighted to be working with Anne McCaffrey,” said Doug Littlejohns, president and CEO of Red Storm Entertainment, Inc. "Our agreement with Anne reflects Red Storm Entertainment’s strategy to work with top authors in their fields to create innovative, enjoyable products that appeal to the widest possible range of consumers. Anne has an enormous following worldwide, and we trust that they will be as excited as we are that her brilliant storytelling will be brought to the computer screen.”
"Anne McCaffrey’s novels are fantasy at its best and we are pleased to bring her unique vision of the world to the gaming community,” said Tom Clancy, chairman of Red Storm Entertainment. "We predict that our first game together will be one of the most exciting and unusual titles for 1999."
"My new venture with Red Storm Entertainment will allow me to take my work to the exciting new world of interactive computer gameplay," said Anne McCaffrey. "Red Storm Entertainment’s vision and creative development team greatly impressed me and I’m looking forward to working closely with them to invent a new medium in which to tell my stories."
Anne McCaffrey is an internationally known best-selling author of over 60 books, which have sold over 24 million copies worldwide. Her first novel, Restoree, was published in l967, and Freedom’s Landing, the first book in the Catteni series, was published in 1995. The Catteni series includes a new book, Freedom’s Challenge, slated for release in 1998. Born in Cambridge Massachusetts, McCaffrey now lives in Ireland.
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