Dark Conspiracy Novels: The Fiddleback Trilogy

The Fiddleback Trilogy was the official ‘tie-in series’ to Dark Conspiracy and was written at the same time as Lester W. Smith was drafting the roleplaying game for GDW. While the two properties share many elements, and the novels are seen by most as an example of the post-Greater Depression Dark America, they also diverge in others. To quote Lester from a 1998 post on the Dark Conspiracy mailing list, “At the same time, they asked Mike Stackpole to write some novels, but both projects were done pretty much separately. Mike’s stuff tends more toward cyberpunk and high action, while mind tends more toward universal dystopia and a setting that can incorporate pretty much any horror story you might read or view.”