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This Novel Might Have The Most Neurotic Superhero Origin Story Ever
Superheroes don’t start out super. It’s a hoary trope that’s a key part of every adventurer’s origin story. Superheroes don’t have to be penciled onto the printed page, either. In the right hands, words alone can make the powers and responsibilities of a gifted protector come to life in a mind of a reader.
Portal 2 Writer Ted Kosmatka Imagines A World Where Creationism Won
Ted Kosmatka’s Prophet of Bones takes place in a world where absolutely everybody knows that Darwin was wrong, and the world is only 5,800 years old. Until one researcher happens on an archeological miracle: an early hominid who used tools, and clearly diverged from humans longer ago. And then people start turning up dead.
These Games Made You: Classics That Inspired A New Video Game Novel
Like many of us, Austin Grossman has lived with video games his whole life. But, like a lot fewer of us, he went on make them, working as a writer and a designer on beloved titles like Deus Ex and Dishonored. Yesterday, his literary love letter to the medium — a novel called You — hit screens and bookstore shelves all over the world.
Dishonored Writer’s New Novel Shows A Video Game Generation Being Born
If you’ve ever thought that it’s long past time that someone wrote a novel about people who make video games, then rejoice. YOU — a book of fiction about the how, why and who of video game development by Austin Grossman — comes out today. You can read an excerpt from the book’s first chapter right here.
Soul Sacrifice Looks A Lot Different In Book Form
Soul Sacrifice, the game where you battle deformed creatures and make the choice to either save or sacrifice them is getting a Japanese book adaptation. Apparently, the book will be an original story set in the world of Soul Sacrifice, and won’t be an adaptation of the original game’s plot.
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