Turbine Games Q&A/Backstory/Q-27
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Any chance we'll start seeing AC novels?
| Asked: | 2000.11.22 |
| Name: | Mann ibn Mann |
| Question Title: | Any chance we'll start seeing AC novels? |
| Category: | Backstory |
| Question: | Any chance you'll farm out the AC backstory to fantasy authors, similar to what they did with AD&D;, Magic the Gathering and Battletech? I'd definitely snatch up a copy or two if you had a decent author writing 'em, Salvatore, Stackpole and Hickman & Weiss come to mind. |
| Answered: | 2000.11.22 |
| Name: | Stormwaltz |
| Answer: | That's up to Microsoft - they own the intellectual property. Judging solely on the basis of their previous decisions, I would doubt it. MS has never published a tie-in novel for one of their games. Personally, I can't abide Stackpole's work. He's a good plotter, but all his characters are indistinguishable from each other - often they even have the same mannerisms. If the job wasn't offered to Pierson and myself, I'd ask for Mary Doria Russel, Neil Gaiman, and Tanith Lee. |