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==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
| − | While [[FanPro]] produced and published the German edition of [[BattleTech]] since 1988, they were too small to handle publication of the accompanying novel line themselves | + | While [[FanPro]] produced and published the German edition of [[BattleTech]] since 1988, they were too small to handle publication of the accompanying novel line themselves with the exception of the ''[[Shrapnel (anthology)|Shrapnel]]'' anthology, an early outlier which FanPro published through their Phoenix imprint. Instead, the German BattleTech novels were published by [[Heyne]], a major German publishing house, from 1989 onwards in a similar fashion to how [[ROC]] took over publishing the novels in the United States. Just like ROC, Heyne also published translations of the "MechWarrior" and "MechWarrior: Dark Age" spin-off lines. |
Heyne published one original German BattleTech novel (''[[Phoenix (novel)|Phoenix]]'') in 2001, as well as a comprehensive softcover almanac dedicated to the BattleTech franchise as a whole (''[[BattleTech: Die Welt des 31. Jahrhunderts]])''. | Heyne published one original German BattleTech novel (''[[Phoenix (novel)|Phoenix]]'') in 2001, as well as a comprehensive softcover almanac dedicated to the BattleTech franchise as a whole (''[[BattleTech: Die Welt des 31. Jahrhunderts]])''. | ||