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Kylania
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Posted - 2005.11.02 20:04:00 -
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 Originally by: Death Destruction
Originally by: qtip
pitty all good sci-fi authors are already dead :(
The author of 'The player of games' isn't dead 
Iain M. Banks is amazing! I'm almost finished the The Algebraist, his latest Sci-Fi work. He's by far the best author I've read in a long time!
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Tsual
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Posted - 2005.11.02 20:40:00 -
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If it was available in normal stores and not only through the fan shop, then rather yes.
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Haanem ulwei, utnazhiram Hal'sha'roh mahiraam Hor'thul.
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Onmarr Shan
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Posted - 2005.11.02 21:07:00 -
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I'd be interested. Ruthless was a good read.
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Soren
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Posted - 2005.11.02 21:11:00 -
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Originally by: kieron
What would be the feeling on a novel from the author of the Ruthless novella, Tony Gonzales?
I'd rather another Ruthless type on-line story myself.. 
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Tsavong Lah
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Posted - 2005.11.03 10:28:00 -
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A ruthless-type book would be awesome but.....
I'd like to see something about the conception and development of eve, in the ilk of "Raising the Bar" and the gt4 one. It could have the chronicles, the scientific articles, some concept art, stuff about the designs of ships etc. Big hardcover book for the coffee table ftw.
It would also be a good way for us to pester all our friends to start playing, as I'm sure anyone who reads it would be interested.
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Dak Hakin
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Posted - 2005.11.03 10:43:00 -
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As long as it didnt get nerfed too much...
"Once there was this place, in space. It was called Eve. People did stuff. People got ganked. People mined. The End"
I like the work of Kevin J. Anderson, or Orson Scott Card. But I do think it would have to be someone who knows about the Eve universe.
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Tsavong Lah
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Posted - 2005.11.03 10:48:00 -
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Anderson's work is good. I also like timothy zahn, iain m banks, and bob salvatore. These are all huge names tho, with probably enormous monetary needs if they were to write an EVE book. Unless one of them plays, and is generous
If one of those authors does play, I wonder if he's in the same corp as Samuel L Jackson....
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sableye
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Posted - 2005.11.03 10:52:00 -
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I'd buy an eve book espeially about the early empire wars.
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Sevarus James
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Posted - 2005.11.03 11:05:00 -
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There was a mention about editing regarding "Ruthless"...and I have to agree that there was a bit of editing-luv needed in the opening end of that story...however, overall that was a great read and tied into our backstory beautifully.
A novel by Card would be...interesting if he were "ON" like Ender's Game or the mirror sequel "Ender's Shadow"...but Card can go off the deep end at times. I'd say with his background as a devout Mormon, he could write an Amarrian piece with some 'authenticity'. -snicker.
I agree with an early poster here...Peter F. Hamilton. He is currently the KING of space opera, and his ability to twine backstory with action, and give depth to his 'worlds', as well as the HARDWARE is unparalleled. -my opinion. (This guy is more in depth with hardware and equipment than most...and would probably have a field day with eve's modules. -heh heh.
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Wanoah
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Posted - 2005.11.04 17:33:00 -
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If Peter Hamilton wrote it to the same quality as he wrote Pandora's Star/Judas Unchained, i'd buy it!!
Oh yes! I just finished Judas Unchained today, and well, what a piece of work!
Thing is, I'm not sure that many established, published authors would write fiction for/about Eve. I don't know though. If I were, say, Iain Banks, and I played Eve, would I write some Eve fiction or even a novel? Maybe secretly and under a pseudonym...
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Minsc
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Posted - 2005.11.04 18:26:00 -
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When can I buy it?
oh...we're just talking about someone writing one...
...when can I buy it?
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Takitoo
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Posted - 2005.11.04 18:33:00 -
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Quote:
If Peter Hamilton wrote it to the same quality as he wrote Pandora's Star/Judas Unchained, i'd buy it!!
I have Pandoras Star but have been too busy to read it ... time to get on that.
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Niko Longhands
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Posted - 2005.11.10 13:53:00 -
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Absolutely positive. But it better be good quality, of course. I'd order, even from Russia. ;-)
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Ashraaf
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Posted - 2005.11.10 14:24:00 -
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Hamilton or maybe David Brin (Heart of the Comet, uplift) could do it
Or maybe more in a cyberpunk mixing travel, pod, link beetween ship and mind?
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Skarsnik
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Posted - 2005.11.10 14:32:00 -
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Originally by: Kylania
Originally by: Death Destruction
Originally by: qtip
pitty all good sci-fi authors are already dead :(
The author of 'The player of games' isn't dead
Iain M. Banks is amazing! I'm almost finished the The Algebraist, his latest Sci-Fi work. He's by far the best author I've read in a long time!
I read that in the 2 days after it came out on hardback.. all the way through while reading I had images of EVE stiring through my mind... Iain M. Banks has the greatest yet sometimes most disturbing ideas of the future. Truth serum injected by an anatomical object' into another 'Anatomical object' makes the mind boggle  Mods if thats too much please delete, not aiming to offend.
But having read Ruthless about 15 times now TG would be a very good choice for a full blown novel. But who would you get to help in making a screenplay for a full movie 
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Xthril Ranger
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Posted - 2005.11.10 15:01:00 -
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bah , not one bookstore got any copies left of judas unchained. I was broke when it came out and now there isnt any copies left in norway. Getting pushing ice later this week from Alastair Reynolds so I will last until I can get a copy of judas unchained.
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GouldFish
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Posted - 2005.11.10 16:02:00 -
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Just finsihed judus unchained last night and Damn it was a very very good read. if you got him then it would be a great book. He's now become on of my top authors.
David Brin is also one of my top athors so a book by him would also be veyr good.
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Ralitge boyter
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Posted - 2005.11.10 16:04:00 -
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Would be a nice thing to have...
Yet as stated before a one is not the other... and I think some others should have a chance of writting some stuff as well. I'm not sure who did wrote this (I don't have E-ON with me right now  ) but the story about the probe with marines send down to take out a moon base was a good read. If the one who wrote this would be willing to put their hand to a novel it would be great.
I think you could even go as far as having several writters writting books, the universe is big enough to have completely seperate storylines that might get intertwined at some point, but need not of course.
Anyway please CCP widen your view and setup something where you have final say if this book can use the EVE name, so we are sure that what we read in the books i something that is acceptable within the EVE universe. (no wookies and ET please, and not talking with the folks back on earth and so forth)
Should not be to hard to do something like this and it would allow lots of intresting books to be set in the EVE universe where not even all have to be in space
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MarkX
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Posted - 2005.11.10 16:08:00 -
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I would purchase the book, if Istvaan Shogaatsu wrote it :D
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Wotok
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Posted - 2005.11.10 16:13:00 -
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...think it would be something for David Weber...pure military SF 
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Gaelron
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Posted - 2005.11.10 18:07:00 -
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Originally by: kieron
What would be the feeling on a novel from the author of the Ruthless novella, Tony Gonzales?
That would rock...that is a great story.
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Death Destruction
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Posted - 2005.11.10 18:12:00 -
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Originally by: Kylania
Originally by: Death Destruction
Originally by: qtip
pitty all good sci-fi authors are already dead :(
The author of 'The player of games' isn't dead
Iain M. Banks is amazing! I'm almost finished the The Algebraist, his latest Sci-Fi work. He's by far the best author I've read in a long time!
Pleeeeeeease read 'The Player Of games'. It's his best work by far. Now, as for him writeing a novel for eve... I'd buy ten of them for friends and family at crimbo if that were the case 
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Sivona
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Posted - 2005.11.10 19:35:00 -
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I'd rather buy a book written by Istvaan Shogaatsu his understanding of the game and inclusion of people within the game would bring it life
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Kylania
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Posted - 2005.11.10 21:38:00 -
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Originally by: Death Destruction
Originally by: Kylania
Iain M. Banks is amazing! I'm almost finished the The Algebraist, his latest Sci-Fi work. He's by far the best author I've read in a long time!
Pleeeeeeease read 'The Player Of games'. It's his best work by far. Now, as for him writeing a novel for eve... I'd buy ten of them for friends and family at crimbo if that were the case
Use of Weapons was the first book of his I read. It blew me away. Only a small handfull of books have managed to make me physically react to someone written and that one of the books. After that I tried to read Player of Games and just couldn't get into it. :( Dunno why. But knowing he was a good author I started finding the rest of his books (I've read all of them but Espidair Street and Dead Air now) and upon a second reading Player of Games was amazing! Song of Stone was like that too.
For sheer "omg I feel so violated" plot twistiness though Walking on Glass has to be the best. :) It's not sci-fi, but my god.. I felt gutted after reading it. It was another one of his great mixings of "present day" and "fantasy world" type storylines that converge at the end.
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jbob2000
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Posted - 2005.11.10 21:41:00 -
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As long as it wasn't digital. I began reading ruthless but i just stopped because its such a pain to read stuff that long on the computer.
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Istvaan Shogaatsu
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Posted - 2005.11.11 02:30:00 -
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I must say, I was somewhere between humbled and flattered that some folks thought I could pull off a novel. If CCP would be willing to hire me to write one, I'd certainly be up for it.
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revren
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Posted - 2005.11.11 02:55:00 -
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the author Alastair Reynolds would be a good author. He has a PHD in astronomy and his work is both technical and far reaching. Revelation Space, redemption ark and absolution gap is a great set.
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Teblin
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Posted - 2005.11.11 02:58:00 -
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Originally by: kieron
What would be the feeling on a novel from the author of the Ruthless novella, Tony Gonzales?
I'd buy it because I'm an eve junkie. We all are, aren't we? ^^
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Man Upright
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Posted - 2005.11.11 04:49:00 -
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Edited by: Man Upright on 11/11/2005 04:51:08
I feel the need to post here.
I don't care if certain people realize who I am, and go to silence this account. I feel this to be worth it.
When I joined this gaming community 5 years ago, I cared about: the graphics of eve, the immense and unconqueable vaccuum of the promised worlds, the combat promised, and the experience of another community after Homeworld(99 game of the year). It probably would have been easier to tell you what I didnt' care about; the storyline and role play.
I put role play and storyline together because they go hand in hand. You cannot create a role in nothingness. This game and it's virtual borders are vast beyond my own wildest dreams. This game was what I always wanted. What I didn't notice at first was the universe this game was put into. I was here to pvp. In fact, I can easily say that I was as much anti role play as you could be. When I was in TAOSP during beta, we targetted Endless for 2 reasons:
1) They were the big fish and we needed to prove we were bigger.
2) They were weakling peasant role players, who didn't play as much as they role played.
I could go into years of history and things that have slowly made me see things in this gaming community and game universe that I never thought I would understand, or respect, but that would take much more than the time I have tonight.
So you have the prelude, now I will set it on your foreheads.
I love the backdrop and storyline of this game. Its as rich in flavor as 120 dollar filet mignon. I love immersing myself into the world that has been created. I didn't use to.
Hellgremlin/Tom/Istvaan was the first to show me there was more to this universe, and more to be played than what lay on my screen to click. His peek of the week stories, his continuing stories posted only on the forums, and now his incredible peeks into the universe we escape to every night that are found on the first issue of E-ON.
I don't want to be rude, or this to seem as though I am pimping myself or HG, but I have to ask:
Tony Gonzales? What kind of slap in the face is that? Are you even being serious?
HG knows this universe like no other, and he can bring others into it like no other. Testimonial asside, I am having an incredible second wind in Eve because I'm immersing myself into the world that HG helped to create, write about, and show me. He is a good friend, but I am not doing this because of that. I'm writing this because I'm nearly appalled that there would be anyone suggested to write the Eve Novel besides Tom.
Put Tom on the payroll once and for all. Give him the tools to double the addictive power of this game.
I promise you no one here will be dissapointed.
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Seleene
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Posted - 2005.11.11 07:32:00 -
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Tony is a great writer, of course.... but this job should go to Tom/HG/Istvaan. There is simply no other person who captures the atmosphere of EVE like he does. Through his stories, he shows us the not-so-glamorous side of the game and that there are real people behind the character portraits that we interact with.
Tom should write it and IMO he should write it using the actions of actual players in the game such as he does on his 'Hamish Saga'. I like the stories about the NPC corps and all that, but it's the players who make the game and Tom has a way of bringing them to life that is MUCH more interesting than some "whoever" NPC.
Tom/HG/Istvaan should get the job. Period.
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