New EVE Online novel "The Burning Life" is on the way
by James Egan 
Jun 4th 2009 at 4:00PM
Filed under: Sci-fi, EVE Online, Lore, News items
There may be big things on the horizon for the lore of EVE Online with the forthcoming release of a second novel for the game, "The Burning Life". The sci-fi novel is written by Hjalti Daníelsson (aka CCP Abraxas) who has written many of the EVE Chronicles -- short, gritty tales that show readers the various facets of life in New Eden. The Chronicles have been a way of driving the game's lore forward for years, so we're wondering what to expect from The Burning Life. Could it possibly be tied in with the new directions that CCP Games wants to take with EVE's lore?
At this point we don't know have much information about the novel, or whether it will be tied in with an upcoming expansion as the Empyrean Age novel by Tony Gonzales was in 2008.
There are paperback release dates listed for 2009 in North America (Tor) and 2010 in Europe (Gollancz).
[Via Ga'len]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
THAC0 said on 4:19PM 6-04-2009
See CCP favors Caldari theres a Raven on the cover! lol jk jk
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SgtBaker said on 4:33PM 6-04-2009
erm, seeing how crappy the Caldari ships are, I hope CCP never favors anything I like.. :-D
Myria said on 4:55PM 6-04-2009
Ignoring for the moment that I prefer Minmatar ships, thus obviously have no taste in ship design, at times it seems I can hardly dock anywhere without seeing a CNR or three, and if there's any L4 +16 or better agents anywhere near there'll be enough CNRs to blot out the local sun.
What they're good at, they're really, really good at.
Joel said on 5:19PM 6-04-2009
I've had the Empyrean Age book sitting around with 15 other books I ordered from Amazon a while back and Age hasn't yet made it to the front of my queue, so I can't compare the two author's writing style, but I have to say, Abraxas has good ideas and stories, but I think his style needs more time and polish before he should get into publishing novels that need to sell plenty of copies in order to justify the cost. His ability to show rather than tell and immerse the reader are not quite at the point I'd expect from a published author.
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