dare reviewed Crysis: Legion by Peter Watts
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4 stars
Video game novel adaptations and tie-ins - are there any good ones? I'm trying to find out.
I've never played Crysis II. Peter Watts is one of my favourite authors. Maybe that was the best possible angle to come at this book. Also, Peter Watts was probably the best possible person to write this novel.
Crysis: Legion is about nanotechnology, the nature of consciousness, free will, biology and all other things typical of Mr. Watts, wrapped in a relentless grunt's-eye view story of an alien invasion. You can see the bones of a (linear and silly?) first person shooter in the narrative, but the prose here is simply beautiful. The care and intelligence put into a story that might be really damn stupid blows your mind.
After reading the book, I feel I need to play Crysis II, just in case it's half as impressive as this novel. So, mission …
Video game novel adaptations and tie-ins - are there any good ones? I'm trying to find out.
I've never played Crysis II. Peter Watts is one of my favourite authors. Maybe that was the best possible angle to come at this book. Also, Peter Watts was probably the best possible person to write this novel.
Crysis: Legion is about nanotechnology, the nature of consciousness, free will, biology and all other things typical of Mr. Watts, wrapped in a relentless grunt's-eye view story of an alien invasion. You can see the bones of a (linear and silly?) first person shooter in the narrative, but the prose here is simply beautiful. The care and intelligence put into a story that might be really damn stupid blows your mind.
After reading the book, I feel I need to play Crysis II, just in case it's half as impressive as this novel. So, mission accomplished, I guess. Also, the question of whether there are good video game novel adaptations has received a definite answer. There is at least one.