EVE Online Novel Due Out This Fall (July 23, 2009)

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WorthPlaying has a piece about the upcoming EVE Online novel, The Burning Life. Author Hjalti Danielsson has been involved with EVE Online since its 2003 release. EVE: The Burning Life will be published in November 2009 and is available for pre-order for around $10.

Set tens of thousands of years in the future, EVE Online is a breathtaking journey to the stars, to an immersive experience filled with adventure, riches, danger and glory. With nearly a quarter of a million subscribers worldwide inhabiting the same virtual universe, EVE features a vast player-run economy where your greatest asset is the starship, designed to accommodate your specific needs, skills and ambitions. EVE offers professions ranging from commodities trader to mercenary, industrial entrepreneur to pirate, mining engineer to battle fleet commander or any combination of these and much more. From brokering business deals to waging war, you will have access to a diverse array of sophisticated tools and interfaces to forge your own destiny in EVE.

EVE: The Burning Life will be published in November 2009 via partnerships with Tor Books and Orion Books ($14.99).

'The Burning Life' is the first effort of novelist Hjalti Danielsson who has worked in different capacities on EVE Online since its 2003 release and currently serves as CCP's main creative writer for the harsh universe of New Eden, the setting for EVE Online. He is the author of more than seventy short stories and some plays set in the EVE Online universe. A visceral writer whose aggressive prose and grand operatic scope is reminiscent of Iain M. Banks and Joe Haldeman, Danielsson's storytelling talent and familiarity with the EVE universe make him the ideal candidate for a full-length novelization for fans and newcomers alike.
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Original update published on July 23, 2009
 
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Little note, this is the second Novel to EVE but the first novel from this author.
Anyway I hope that the novel will be as interesting to read as the first one I read about EVE.
The other novel is Empyrean Age
 
I don't know about this. I'm sure the novels are great and all, but with games like EVE it feels like all of the universe stuff is just there so Aw3zumFRED69 can blow stuff up in his maxed out level 500 whatever-the-best-ship-in-EVE-is.

It seems a bit awkward going from that to a serious story and back.
 
From my short experiance with EVE, just playing for about 1 moth or so, I have a rather different experiance. This is definitly not WoW. Haveing the biggest ship around won't help you much, at least not allways ^_^

Big ships, using big turrets have the problem that they are to slow to track smaller ships.
For example I was able to render a battleship useless because I was fast enough and very close so he couldn't track me, landing some grazing shots was all he managed.
Takeing his attention that way two friends where able to take him out before he could realign his guns.

A valid point is that the first book had a far better story, in my opinion, then the ingame story missions. EVE is more like "go out there and create your own story" kind of game.
Its pretty much what I would call a Sandbox game.
Even if I prefer Storydriven games I still return again and again.

About the first book, I have read it before I started playing EVE and its even good and interesting to read without knowing the background of the game.
 
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