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Post by **DarkUnderlord** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 1:44 am

<strong>[Community -> Update]</strong>

Yay! Fallout: The book. Not a bad read. An epic tale of nuclear thievery by evil people who want to blow stuff up! More pre-apocalyptic then post-apocalyptic, seeing as the bad guys get thwarted an' all...
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<br>Anyway, click on the little image on the front page to see the front and back covers. Exciting!

Spazmo · Post by **Spazmo** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 1:45 am

HA HA BOOKS!

Mr. Teatime · Post by **Mr. Teatime** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 1:51 am

The front cover looks like someone got way overexcited in photoshop. "Hmm. How can we make a nuclear explosion more exciting? I know, let's make it a nuclear explosion.... BUT IN SPACE!"

Spazmo · Post by **Spazmo** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 1:53 am

Erm... wasn't that the plot to Van Buren?

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 2:07 am

Oww. by the author of SW books.

PsychoSniper · Post by **PsychoSniper** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 3:52 am

Actualy, KJA is one of the better SW authors.

As long as he's kept away from super weapons at least, he loves a good super weapon.

Sykotik · Post by **Sykotik** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 6:52 pm

Heheh, I read that book a while back. Pretty much all I can remember is "area 51 + UN killar forces delusions + nuke built up bit by bit by nutty TERRORISTS = yay plot!"
Oh well. It kept me busy.

PsychoSniper · Post by **PsychoSniper** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 8:10 pm

I prefer KJA's SW work, especily the YJK series.

Lunchmeat · Post by **Lunchmeat** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 9:39 pm

I enjoy acronyms.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 12:08 am

KJA's SW YJK series

LlamaGod · Post by **LlamaGod** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 6:06 am

LOL ATT

Koki · Post by **Koki** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 9:13 am

Ouch. I thought it was a book like the ones from Starcraft, Baldur's Gate etc. Based on story.

Or '200 Pages Of Why Bethseda Can't Do Fallout 3 Well', nyah nyah nyah.

SDMVersion3 · Post by **SDMVersion3** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 11:55 am

PsychoSniper wrote:Actualy, KJA is one of the better SW authors.

As long as he's kept away from super weapons at least, he loves a good super weapon.

It's a post-apocolyptic book, it kinda has to involve a super weapon of some kind.

PiP · Post by **PiP** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 12:18 pm

SDMVersion3 wrote:
PsychoSniper wrote:Actualy, KJA is one of the better SW authors.

As long as he's kept away from super weapons at least, he loves a good super weapon.
It's a post-apocolyptic book, it kinda has to involve a super weapon of some kind.

I see your point, but PA does not need to be of man's (or aliens') making, consider meteorites and comets, gigantic floods and erthquakes, and plagues. They don't involve weapons yet they have the capacity to create a PA world (be it merely for setting a story in it).

As regards the book discussed, I personally don't like the fact that it is titled "fallout" while it is not related to The Game(s), especially as The Game is a well established and known cultural artefact, the evidence for which is this very site.

PS: posting system is messed up (or is it my browser?) - when I click 'submit' it transfers me to the 'log in' page (despite I logged in before writing the post)

Ausir · Post by **Ausir** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 12:49 pm

As regards the book discussed, I personally don't like the fact that it is titled "fallout" while it is not related to The Game(s), especially as The Game is a well established and known cultural artefact, the evidence for which is this very site.

The book is from March 1997, before the game was even released, and I wouldn't call it THAT well known even now, outside the cRPG fandom.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 1:13 pm

My mom doesn't know either.

PiP · Post by **PiP** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 7:00 pm

Ausir wrote:The book is from March 1997, before the game was even released

damn it, blunder <blush> I didn't check the release date, I thought it was pretty recent since it's in the News... silly me. (no irony)

and I wouldn't call it THAT well known even now, outside the cRPG fandom.

well yes, on the one hand, but on the other hand I was speaking from the point of view of the cRPG fandom. Call me biased. If the book was released after the (relative) international success of F1 & 2, they should not use this title for an otherwise unrelated publication <= and this is my personal, subjective, biased opinion.

Anyway thanks for telling me the release date Ausir so that I no longer make a fool of myself.

Ausir · Post by **Ausir** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 7:27 pm

Maybe it's Interplay who shouldn't have made a game that was an obvious rip-off of the title of this great writer of boring Star Wars books?

PiP · Post by **PiP** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 7:41 pm

yea, I was thinking the same but I didn't want to say anti-cRPG stuff

Post by **Retlaw83** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 7:46 pm

I wouldn't be surprised if no one involved in the game's development had even heard of this book prior to the game's release.