Jman4117 Posted July 18, 2004 Report Share Posted July 18, 2004 OMG....An X-com book????.....WTF???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FullAuto Posted July 18, 2004 Report Share Posted July 18, 2004 Available at all good amazon websties, Jman. Been out for a while, mate. Didn't you know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman4117 Posted July 18, 2004 Report Share Posted July 18, 2004 No...When'd it come out? O.o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FullAuto Posted July 18, 2004 Report Share Posted July 18, 2004 Late 95, early 96, I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman4117 Posted July 18, 2004 Report Share Posted July 18, 2004 O.o *Jman goes to check Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FullAuto Posted July 18, 2004 Report Share Posted July 18, 2004 It's cheap, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgtsurge Posted July 18, 2004 Report Share Posted July 18, 2004 It has alot to be desired if you have read Hobbes work https://www.geocities.com/aadlg/xcom.htm You can find all his stuff at his own site at the above site. If you like the game than definately try the terror site mods, they are a welcome change to the boring normal terror site. I do not know if he read this book before or during writing of X-COM The Unknown Menace of not, but some of the stuff in the book jives with his story.... example the talk of the Artic base..... It was a good fast read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobbes Posted July 18, 2004 Report Share Posted July 18, 2004 I've never read the Diane Duane novel. I've looked it up on Amazon and considered ordering it but the mostly not so good/acceptable reviews I've seen about it had put me off against it, plus the fact that it would not be a good idea to read it while I was writing my fanfic (unconsciously you end using other people's ideas). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FullAuto Posted July 18, 2004 Report Share Posted July 18, 2004 No-one needs the faint whiff of plagiarism hanging around their work. No-one's writing is perfect, and for a book based on a computer game, it is a perfectly acceptable bit of writing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobbes Posted July 18, 2004 Report Share Posted July 18, 2004 I think I need to buy it to make my own mind about it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FullAuto Posted July 18, 2004 Report Share Posted July 18, 2004 Well, if your fic is done, no-one can accuse you of plagiarism, unless they have photos of you reading it or something. With a time/date clock in the background. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox Posted July 20, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 20, 2004 I personally think her work was good. I've read the book about 4 or 5 times.  My only bad opinion of it was the fact that if you had never played X-COM before, you wouldn't know wtf she is talking about. She just didn't give much good backstory, and just sort of threw the reader straight into a war tale which the reader could very well not understand. The story of X-COM is a long one, and can't really be put into a short read. Think of the book merely as a glimpse into the long tale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shades of Green Posted July 21, 2004 Report Share Posted July 21, 2004 The "official fanfic" was (IIRC) authorised by Microprose (sp?) and was available from their site (now long dead, IIRC) as well as several X-Com fansites. There was one main multi-part story arc, but there were also several short ones wriitten as a prologue to Terror from the Deep. I've read it long ago, so I don't recall the author... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman4117 Posted July 21, 2004 Report Share Posted July 21, 2004 Something about an Alien War I veteran I think. Saw it in the TFTD manual. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pumpkinhead Posted July 21, 2004 Report Share Posted July 21, 2004 I bought the novel last night off Amazon, so I guess I'll find out if it's any good in a few weeks time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pumpkinhead Posted July 28, 2004 Report Share Posted July 28, 2004 It arrived today!! Only a week after buying it too; that's pretty good! Â All I've got to do now is finish the book I'm currently reading so I can start on it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomb Bloke Posted July 28, 2004 Report Share Posted July 28, 2004 When was that book published? I think I heard something about it a few years back... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman4117 Posted July 28, 2004 Report Share Posted July 28, 2004 Mid 90's, I just heard about it last week Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pumpkinhead Posted July 28, 2004 Report Share Posted July 28, 2004 January 1, 1996 according to Amazon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FullAuto Posted August 3, 2004 Report Share Posted August 3, 2004 Tell us what you think when you've finished reading it, mate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pumpkinhead Posted August 3, 2004 Report Share Posted August 3, 2004 That's if I get to it  At the same time that I bought it, I also bought The Twilight Zone Companion and Steven Speilberg's The Dig (the novel, not the game) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FullAuto Posted August 5, 2004 Report Share Posted August 5, 2004 "Tonight, ladies and gentlemen, Pumpkinhead will be hosting X-Com.co.uk's book review, telling us all exactly how many sectoids out of five each piece of sci-fi literature deserves. Over to you, Pumpkinhead." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pumpkinhead Posted October 14, 2004 Report Share Posted October 14, 2004 I just read the first 2 chapters the other day, and it is sooooooooo tedious. This Diane Duane is far from being a good writer. I've read fanfics that read better than this novel! Oh, well, I've paid for it, I guess I'd better keep reading... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobbes Posted October 14, 2004 Report Share Posted October 14, 2004 *topic just comes back from the world of the dead* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FullAuto Posted October 15, 2004 Report Share Posted October 15, 2004 Pumpkinhead: The Topic-resurrecting Jesus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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