Sweet Zombie Monkey Jesus on a Pogo Stick

[thrames]

I just finished Lord of the Night by Simon Spurrier. Firewarrior was good. This makes Firewarrior look like shit. I got this book on Thursday and it's now Saturday. And I've had class, 5 hours of lab, and played D&D for four hours on Thursday mind you. This is one of the better books I've read, classical literature be damned

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[redgormor]

I dunno, I just get this feeling that something like that would be about as fan-ficcy as all that World of Darkness fiction that came out a few years back.

Then again, it could be like those two Delta Green short story anthologies and totally rock.

...I knew I had a counter example in there somewhere.

[grr_islatyx]

GEEK BOY! :O

[knifesmile]

Excellent gaming fiction must exist to balance out all the corporate fanfic. Lucky you, you got some in your fandom. I wish it were less randomly apportioned.

One of the small curses of my life is that last year my mother decided that, since I spend much of my time working out characters and such for potential Werewolf plots, obviously I should write the stories I come up with for games as novels and try to sell them.

So basically my own mother has been hounding me for a year and a half to write corporate fanfic.

I realised how thoroughly gamers, and I in particular, live in separate worlds from everyone else when I found myself in the predicament of trying to explain to her that, if for no other reason, that scenario is impossible because I work in Old WOD, which is dead.

("Well, so it's out of print. Isn't it still popular?" " ... Yes, but -- " "So then why wouldn't they publish it?")

[lord_tricondis]

i also liked firewarrior, although i dont read many or any 40k books. i stopped reading the fantasy ones because theyre all the same stupid stories now. the best WH book ive read i think was "gilead's blood". funny, because i was just thinking about how cool it was today.

as far as literature based on gaming stuff outside D+D, the diablo and warcraft books are pretty awesome( anything by richard a knaak). as well as the original werewolf the apocalypse tribe novels.

[lord_tricondis]

oh i did read the first 3 gaunts ghosts novels and the first 2 13th legion books. the first 13th legion book being my favorite.