StarCraft: Evolution

[Visions of Khas]

Whatever you do, just don't read The Green and the Grey. Not... not his best work.

[Nissa]

Lol, now I am suddenly very curious.

[Visions of Khas]

Nooooo no no no no. o__o

[ragnarok]

Given that the only SC novels I've read that didn't completely suck were Speed of Darkness and SCG Nova (it at least had a good plot), I have doubts as to how well anybody at all can pull off a good SC novel. Actually, the thing those two novels have in common is that they have minimal affect on SC lore. So basically, the best SC novels are those that are just side stories that are more about telling a story than re-explaining (and thus ruining) what SC/BW and the manual already said. This is a lore novel. Thus, it will suck.

Eh, I'll grant you, Khas, that maybe Zahn is a decent writer. However, all of the SC novels seem to have been written on a deadline and lack the kind of editing that would have rendered a product comparable to things published by a book company, rather than a gaming one. That, and lots of respectable sci fi authors have written franchise work. Heck, that's all Keith DeCandido seems to write.

....Huh, I'm kinda tempted to read some of the Zahn novels at my work and make estimates based his previous stuff.

Did all the previous books have a specific deadline that needed to be met? Because I don't recall the authors saying anything about that....

[drakolobo]

I also remembered that is meaning compassion of zagara, so that the concept of paradise zerg is not necessarily favorable from the human perspective. I plan to bring zerg pradise turning everything into zerg jaaj:RE

[Nolanstar]

Hope its got a good, messed up/disturbing plot that has to do with the inhabitants and the intentions of Zagara. Remember she technically assimilated humans to produce the HotS Abberations.

[Eligor]

Blizzard don't really do grimdark anymore.

Overwatch is where their heart lies nowadays.

And that all in all might not be a bad thing.

I imagine that the "Evolution" novel could be good if they took a slightly harder sci-fi approach (closer to Lem or Sheckley)... Dealing with alien consciousness... The limits of our understanding and all that... And Zagara's paradise might indeed be a pretty creepy place, all things considered.

I am curious.

[ragnarok]

Hope its got a good, messed up/disturbing plot that has to do with the inhabitants and the intentions of Zagara. Remember she technically assimilated humans to produce the HotS Abberations.

And hopefully this is something that the terrans will point out upon speaking to her, but I doubt it.

[drakolobo]

Someone already got their hands on it?, I really want to know what it is about ... without buying that jja ja

[ragnarok]

Someone already got their hands on it?, I really want to know what it is about ... without buying that jja ja

I read it already. Don't exactly like the direction they're trying to take the swarm and everything. It DID offer a good view on Abathur however.