EVE Lore/fiction

[squirrel]

Since i had some time to kill at work i thought i'd check out these 2 CCP produced novellas set in the EVE universe. They're actually pretty good, definately worth reading if you're at all interested in that kind of thing:

Theodicy - story of Amarrian Reclamation & Minmatar subjegation prior to the development of Pod technology

Ruthless - More recent tale of corporate espionage and gurista history in the Caldari State

Good stuff - satisfying diversion for when i can't log in here at work. I have new respect for the space frenchies and a new dislike of amarr's heh...

[Viin]

Did you notice if there was a way to get a print version? I'd like to read it, but hate reading on the screen and prefer a bound booklet over sheets of paper.

[Trippy]

I don't see them in the store so a printed out PDF is probably your best bet.

[Evangolis]

I saw one in a Borders last week.  Didn't look at it at all, though.

[Soln]

the fact they have professional writers writing short stories, novellas, and little wikipedia-like entries is well... BRILLIANT

CCP have my    there, said it. 

[Evangolis]

It isn't a terribly new idea, PnP RPGs have done this for decades, Mechwarrior being a notable example.  Some folks in the SF writing community are very scornful of this stuff, feeling it hurts genre creativity, saps the time and talent of young writers, and eats up limited shelf space.  Never had much of an opinion on it, one way or the other, myself.

[Viin]

While PnP-based novels have been around for awhile, I don't think many MMO publishers bother with stuff like this. They still don't *get* it. Stuff like this is great if it's well written - it just makes the whole universe much more interesting. Sure, if it's crap it won't help, but good SF is good SF regardless of where the universe started: in a game or a movie or an opera, etc.

I'll check out B&N and see if I can find one of these.