Editing Turbine Games Q&A/Backstory/Q-27

{{Turbine Games Q&A
 |  Link = <nowiki>http://www.turbinegames.com/qa/view_questions.html?id=2842</nowiki>
 | Title = Any chance we'll start seeing AC novels?
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{{Turbine Games Q&A Question
 |    Asked = 2000.11.22
 |   Player = Mann ibn Mann
 |    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
 |      Dev = 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.<br /><br />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.
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