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When they vanished fifty thousand years ago, the Protheans left their advanced technology scattered throughout the galaxy. The chance discovery of a Prothean cache on Mars allows humanity to join those already reaping the rewards of the ancients’ high-tech wizardry. But for one rogue militia, the goal is not participation but domination.
Scientist Kahlee Sanders has left the Systems Alliance for the Ascension Project, a program that helps gifted “biotic” children harness their extraordinary powers. The program’s most promising student is twelve-year-old Gillian Grayson, who is borderline autistic. What Kahlee doesn’t know is that Gillian is an unwitting pawn of the outlawed black ops group Cerberus, which is sabotaging the program by conducting illegal experiments on the students.
When the Cerberus plot is exposed, Gillian’s father takes her away from the Ascension Project and flees into the lawless Terminus Systems. Determined to protect Gillian, Kahlee goes with them… unaware that the elder Grayson is, in fact, a Cerberus operative. To rescue the young girl Kahlee must travel to the farthest ends of the galaxy, battling fierce enemies and impossible odds. But how will she be able to save a daughter from her own father?
This novel is based on a Mature-rated video game.
Scientist Kahlee Sanders has left the Systems Alliance for the Ascension Project, a program that helps gifted “biotic” children harness their extraordinary powers. The program’s most promising student is twelve-year-old Gillian Grayson, who is borderline autistic. What Kahlee doesn’t know is that Gillian is an unwitting pawn of the outlawed black ops group Cerberus, which is sabotaging the program by conducting illegal experiments on the students.
When the Cerberus plot is exposed, Gillian’s father takes her away from the Ascension Project and flees into the lawless Terminus Systems. Determined to protect Gillian, Kahlee goes with them… unaware that the elder Grayson is, in fact, a Cerberus operative. To rescue the young girl Kahlee must travel to the farthest ends of the galaxy, battling fierce enemies and impossible odds. But how will she be able to save a daughter from her own father?
This novel is based on a Mature-rated video game.
About the Author
Drew Karpyshyn is the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Darth Bane: Path of Destruction and its sequel Star Wars: Darth Bane: Rule of Two, as well as several other fantasy and science fiction novels, including Mass Effect: Revelation. He is also an award-winning writer/designer for the computer game company BioWare, where he was lead writer on Mass Effect and the popular Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic video game. He can be contacted through his website at www.drewkarpyshyn.com–it’s all Drew, all the time!
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Recommended for Mass Effect fans only,
This review is from: Mass Effect: Ascension (Mass Market Paperback)
N.B. If you're looking at this book purely from a Mass Effect storyline perspective, and not from a general SF PoV, add another star to my rating.Maybe I've been reading too many books by really great SF authors, but I found this book underwhelming. The story is decent, but if you read much SF none of the ideas here will seem all that original. Descriptions of the universe seemed a bit blah, too. It is a quick read, if you like that. Oh, and Kahlee Sanders returns from the first book. This time she's in the biotics business. She just can't seem to stay out of trouble. Of course, you probably won't bother with this unless you've played Mass Effect and are wondering where it's going next. That's the interesting part. Given the connections between the first ME book and the game, I spent much of my time reading this one wondering how it will relate to the next game. I don't have an answer for that, but there certainly were a lot of quarians, biotics, and alien-hating humans in this book. Oh, and mysterious aliens who live behind an unexplored relay and collect sentient beings... There are a number of interesting directions set up here for the second game to take. Too bad for me I won't be playing it unless EA/Bioware change their DRM policies. At least I can, and probably will, keep buying the novels.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Solid Filler For Games,
By Head Injured "Sam" (Québec, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Mass Effect: Ascension (Mass Market Paperback)
Gotta say it took me much longer to read than the first one. Light on plot, great on descriptions and really passable on dialogue, this little video game novel is a gem in itself in the sense that it achieved its purpose wonderfully, that is fleshing out the Mass Effect universe. I played the game once, read Ascencion again and on a replay I must say that I see Tali the Quarian completely differently. The Quarian race has been excellently introduced in this novel and has me looking forward to more. This novel served to pique my interest in the Mass Effect universe and in the end I think that that was what it was intended to do. Though Drew has written dialogue for Bioware's Knights of The Old Republic and IMO it is better, I expect more from a third novel, if ever there would be one.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Unrelated to the game story, but still interesting.,
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This review is from: Mass Effect: Ascension (Mass Market Paperback)
I read the book before Mass Effect 2 was out, so I enjoyed the fact that the book was kind of an introduction to many new element in the world of Mass Effect. Otherwise the story is unrelated to the main story of both game. It was still somewhat fun but nothing outstanding.I would recommend this book only to the hardcore fan of the series.
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