Finished this a while back, and just a few weeks ago finished the sequel. This is a cool series! I'm giving it the full 5 stars, though I admit that may be partly b/c I'm just impressed that an "expanded universe franchise" book is this cool. More later-- hopefully I'll be doing a blog post on these books sometime. Original review is below.



Ok, I don't have an x-box, and haven't read any of the books, but if Greg Bear, one of the big names in sci fi since the 80s, is going to add to the saga , then I will plan on reading it. While to a degree it is "just" a first person shooter series, it is also a pretty major point in the development of narrative in video gaming (and it has a few nice allusions to sic-fi classics- Ringworld is the one that first springs to mind.). I'd like to buy an x-box and play through the series too, but I've got way too much going on right now...