Publisher Random House has teased book fans with an excerpt from the upcoming Elder Scrolls novel, The Infernal City. If you're undecided on the book, written by Greg Keyes, then perhaps the opening scene will entice you or put you off. Either way, it's there for the reading, so go right ahead.
As a budding fantasy nut and a fan of Oblivion, I think I'll definitely be picking it up. In fact, I'm really tempted to start playing Oblivion again to jog my memory of the game world, even if I do have a tendency to ruin every character build I try and make. In any case, the book is looking somewhat promising, although it's hard to see how much of a yarn it will spin from just a few pages.
The Infernal City will be available later this month on November 24.
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11:00 AM on 11.01.2009
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Oh well, another bad bit of gaming-related merchandise is just a drop in the metaphorical bucket.
But yes, this does look awful. The first paragraph had me cringing as if I were reading fanfic.
God dammit.
Now excuse me, I have to read my Worlds of Power Castelvania novel.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worlds_of_Power
The gears of war books are awesome. Maybe thats just because I love gears of war, but whatevah
... THEN PAY WITH YOUR BLOOD
"I glanced at it, and yeah, it seemed pretty awful... "
And that ladies and gentleman, is how you know if a book is good or not. You glance at it.
Haha, the day I take anybody on Destructoid's comment sections' word on a piece of literature is the day I apparently stop giving a shit about literature.
With that said, yeah it looked like horseshit, but I don't actually have any interest in Elder Scrolls' lore to begin with.
The Fall of Reach Halo novel is also pretty decent, as far as videogame novels go. I have to admit to having a very hard time reading the Mass Effect book, though.
Worst sentence ever. I'm a hardcore TES fan and I'll be giving this one a miss.