The Best Wing Commander Book

What Is the Best Wing Commander Book?

  • Action Stations

    Votes: 3 8.8%

  • Pilgrim Stars

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Freedom Flight

    Votes: 5 14.7%

  • End Run

    Votes: 11 32.4%

  • Fleet Action

    Votes: 11 32.4%

  • Wing Commander III

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Wing Commnder IV

    Votes: 2 5.9%

  • False Colors

    Votes: 2 5.9%
  • Total voters
    34
pygmypiranha

pygmypiranha

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The Wing Commander books set themselves out from the games and are a completely different genre that allow us, the gamers, to get a more in depth look at the series from a whole new, more detailed perspective. I feel that the books are just as good as the games and in many ways are just as fun to enjoy. Here are the main books in the series. I am hoping for new books every day. End Run was the first book that I purchased right off the shelf not knowing anything about the series. End Run plunged me into the Wing Commander universe. I consider it to be a very good book, like the rest, and hope that everyone has enjoyed it like I have. Do you have any favorites? What do you consider the best book in the series?
 
Wow, that is a good question....*thinks for a second* Hmm, I'd probably have to go with Fleet Action or False Colors. But since I have to choose one, I'd say Fleet Action.
 
You may have left out hte most important one -- it's far from the best *written* or the most meaningful... but the Wing Commander movie novel *certainly* enhanced the experience of seeing the WC movie about a zillion-fold.
 
A little from column A, a little from column B.

You can still buy some from Amazon... get the rest from half.com or a used bookstore. (End Run will be the hardest to find).
 
End Run

I haven't checked for awhile for any copies of End Run. you have to look around. I know that they do still have them at some bookstores and what not, you just have to look pretty hard. Then there is eBay. *looks at tattered old copy* Yea I think I should try and find a copy while I still can.
 
Ehh, I'd say there are about as many End Runs as there are Action Stations, movie novels, Junior Movie Novels, TPOFs and False Colorses... but it has this 'collectors stigma' that's been assosciated with it so people have bought most of them up (it was also printed before the current books were popular, so people didn't buy it when it first came out).
 
I think you overlooked another book, too... well, sort of. End Run is divided into End Run proper, and Milk Run. Milk Run is more of a novella than a book, but given that it's written by a different author and in a style very different to End Run, I think that it deserves a separate position.
 
Originally posted by Quarto
I think you overlooked another book, too... well, sort of. End Run is divided into End Run proper, and Milk Run. Milk Run is more of a novella than a book, but given that it's written by a different author and in a style very different to End Run, I think that it deserves a separate position.
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If 'Milk Run' is what I think it is, then it went by a different name in my copy (which I no longer own). What I'm thinking of is the story of the Johnny Greene, which, iirc, went under the name 'Intruder'. Did they pull a name change on this at some point?
 
Milk Run

Milk Run was at the beginning of END RUN. If there was no Milk Run then the readers would not really know what end run was. It was pretty much a preface.
 
Originally posted by Bandit LOAF
Ehh, I'd say there are about as many End Runs as there are Action Stations, movie novels, Junior Movie Novels, TPOFs and False Colorses... but it has this 'collectors stigma' that's been associated with it so people have bought most of them up.
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Mmmhh... but how come End Run in particular was associated with this 'collectors stigma'??

On a side note, I just won an auction that will get me the last book I'm missing for my collection, Action Stattions. Yay!! :)
 
Congrats

I don't know why End Run is a collectors thing. I can purchase it rather easily here. Kindda easy anyway. I think it is just because the book is really well written.

Congrats on your auction dude. Its a good read.
 
Re: End Run

Originally posted by pygmypiranha
I haven't checked for awhile for any copies of End Run.
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Half.com usually has a decent amount available, and you don't have to bid!
 
Re: Milk Run

Originally posted by pygmypiranha
Milk Run was at the beginning of END RUN. If there was no Milk Run then the readers would not really know what end run was. It was pretty much a preface.
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Um, that doesn't really answer my question...

Is 'Milk Run' about the Johnny Greene or not?
 
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