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Summary: Speed of darkness, the best book yet
Review: This is undoubtedly the best starcraft book i've read (and i've read all three). The story follows a confederate marine, Ardo Melnikov, and his squad during their battle against the zerg on Mar Sara. The Protoss aren't mentioned even once in the book, since it takes place so early in the war, but there's still plenty of action and battle. This book is much better than the other two books, and I reccomend it to any Starcraft fan.
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Summary: It's a REAL book!!
Review: This may sound odd, but the way I see it is this: Stracraft novels are based around a video game. Obviously, this leads to pretty low expectations. The first two novels in the series were essentially kid's books, more or less. They were meant to be fun little light-hearted romps throught the StarCraft world, where we could meet our favorite charectors and what-not. This third novel, however, is legitimate fiction. It has new charectors. Charectors with emotional trauma who go off to war and experience post-traumitc-stress-disorder and doubt their involvment in the army. Essentially, it's a "REAL" book. This book could be appreciated and considered by this who don't even know what StarCraft is, and that says alot. I hope people understand what I'm trying to say here.
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Summary: A Beautiful, if Cliched Story
Review: To me Speed of Darkness is the best book of the series, which unfortunately seems to have fallen on the wayside. The Starcraft universe enthralled me in a way I did not think a videogame could. Liberty's Crusade by Jeff Grub was a wonderful (if underdeveloped) telling of the original story, which spent some time in the trenches with the average Joe. I didn't care too much for Shadow of the Xel'naga. I enjoyed the read and the perspective, but it hasn't clung with me like Speed of Darkness. Being human helps me to relate to the Terrans and their plight, and since the game came out, I've had a special fascination for the Terran Marine. To me Speed of Darkness shines as a view in the trenches of a small squad of marines. My experience as a living history reenactor in 18th and early 19th century soldiering see the marine as a throwback to earlier warfare. Today we expect our soldiers to be super-smart, technological single-person armies. The Terran Marine seems like a throwback, a brainwashed conscript with no purpose in life but to follow orders.
Soldiers from the age of linear warfare were expected to follow orders and stay in line, Terran Marines are treated pretty much the same way. Yet just as the soldiers of that bygone age were capable of extraordinary acts of heroism, sacrifice, humanitarianism, initiative, and ambition. Tracy Hickman shows an incident where the Marines do the same thing. That small squad consisting of a diverse group of people, all with different backgrounds act on their own initiative. Not because of orders, or duty, or glory, they do it because it is the right thing. It's quite beautiful, without coming across as too corny, or over dramatic, because it works in context of the Starcraft universe. A place so dirty, corrupt, rife with conflict, death, and negativity. Speed of Darkness works, and it works in a memorable way.
Unfortunately, the novel is quite short, and somewhat underdeveloped, leaving a lot to the reader's imagination. Plus without a good working knowledge of the Starcraft universe, there is much that will be missed, and the story itself will just feel like something that's been done dozens of times.
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Summary: hard to put down
Review: Tracy Hickman work on Dragonlance was legendary. Starcraft#3: Speed of Darkness is also another prove of his talent. Of all 3 serie of starcraft, I think this is definitely the best.
For fan who expect a world of starcraft strategical game play might be a bit disappointed. This book detailed a life of one specific marine in a squad with an impossible mission to fulfill. Totally dramatic and action pack.
Perhap after reading this, your marine would worth more than 40 minerals ???
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Summary: Finally a StarCraft book not chained to the game formulas!
Review: While the book is not a literary marvel by any means, it is without a doubt the best book based on the StarCraft universe. After the boring recount of the game in Liberty's Crusade and mildly entertaining Shadow of Xel Naga, this book was a very pleasant surprise. The beauty of this one is that it breaks away from the mathematical formulas that govern the combat in the game and in the process brings realism to the way events unfold. Hickman has brilliantly tied his story to the original events that took place in the game and in the first StarCraft book. I hope that Hickman writes the screenplay for this one and gets in touch with the right people in Hollywood.
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Summary: Dis book does be good as heck, yo!!
Review: Yo, wuttup,
dis book is off da chain homies, for realio, no joke up in dis mug, no doubt. Ardo is all up on dis ho, Merdith, and she's bangin, for realio, homies. Some peeps said dis junk was sketch, but its straight up, for real. Check it.
peace out to my homies roun' da worl'
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