Das Goldene Zeitalter

Das Goldene Zeitalter ("The Golden Age"), also occasionally called the Golden Age Zyklus {sic}, is a series of novels that were published by Fantasy Productions as part of the new FanPro novels series from 2004 onwards. They are set in the "golden age" of BattleTech during the Star League era around the year 2600, roughly four centuries before the original main storyline.

Within the Golden Age cycle, there is a loosely connected sub-cycle named the Great Game comprising three published books. Additional books by Michael Diel and Carolina Möbis were projected but not yet published when FanPro aborted the new novel series in 2008 (eventually passing the torch to Ulisses Spiele in 2011 who continued the novel line).

Further, the second Great Game novel (En Passant) was the supposed to be the first part of the Schattenkrieg ("Shadow War") trilogy which however was not continued beyond this first book. It narrates an undercover agent war between the Federated Suns and the Draconis Combine escalating beyond control and into a shooting war. En Passant ends with a cliffhanger, and the line "To be continued."

Novels in the Golden Age (Das Goldene Zeitalter) cycle:

• Wahnsinn und Methode (FanPro novel #1)
• Über dem Gesetz (FanPro novel #4)
• Früchte voll Bitterkeit (FanPro novel #10)
• The Great Game cycle:
  • In Ungnade (FanPro novel #13; Great Game cycle #1)
  • En Passant (FanPro novel #15; Great Game cycle #2); only book published in the Schattenkrieg trilogy
  • Royal Flush (FanPro novel #18; Great Game cycle #3)