Fans of the Mass Effect game series will have an extra reason to celebrate in the coming year–Titan Books has a new set of tie-in novels ready to hit shelves, and there are some very exciting names attached to these projects!
From Titan Books:
Titan Books will work closely with acclaimed video game developer BioWare to publish three brand new novels set in the universe of MASS EFFECT™: ANDROMEDA.
The action will weave directly into the new game, chronicling storylines developed in close collaboration with the BioWare game team. The action takes place concurrently with the adventure of the game itself, setting up the story and events of the game adding depth and detail to the canonical MASS EFFECT saga.
The first book, titled Mass Effect: Nexus Uprising, will be penned by Jason M. Hough and K.C. Alexander and released in spring of 2017. Following in the summer and fall of 2017 will be Mass Effect: Annihilation by Catherynne M. Valente and Mass Effect: Initiation by N. K. Jemisin. Mark your calendars!
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I guess I can still get excited about Mass Effect.
I’m a huge fan of N. K. Jemisin, but I have never played any of the Mass Effect games and likely never will. I suspect I’ll just have to give this one a miss, just like I’ve given Brandon Sanderson’s Infinity Blade novels a miss.
The previous titles were light-weight and really only a must read for players (they filled in narrative holes between games). That is because all but the last (which was really bad) were written by in-house Bioware writers. I wonder if this push for stronger authors is an attempt to bring in more players, or if it is really intended to push the Bioware writers to be better.
Ugh no!
Mass Effect was one of the games that most affected me, Chrono Trigger and KotOR being another two: it’s one of the best games ever! The narrative is simply astounding… for a game.
Why would they write books about it? Do they haven’t enough money already?
The will -to put it clearly- be terrible.