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In the distant future, a loose confederacy of terran exiles is locked in battle sixty thousand light-years from Earth, caught in the crossfire between two powerful alien races: the enigmatic protoss and the ruthless zerg swarm. Conflicts rage across the Koprulu sector as each of the three species fights for its existence among the stars.
LIBERTY'S CRUSADE: Behind the attacks of the zerg and the protoss lies the story of a lifetime, and investigative reporter Mike Liberty is determined to uncover it. But every new piece of information only deepens the mystery. Thrown into the middle of a war that may determine the fate of humanity in the Koprulu sector, Liberty reports on the escalating conflict and wonders whom he can afford to trust.
SHADOW OF THE XEL'NAGA: Bhekar Ro is a bleak, backwater world on the fringe of the Terran Dominion, and every day is a struggle to survive for the planet's human colonists. Yet when a violent storm unearths an unfathomable alien structure, Bhekar Ro becomes the greatest prize in the Koprulu sector. Zerg, protoss, and terran forces turn the planet into a bloody battlefield in their haste to claim the lost secrets of the most powerful species the universe has ever known.
SPEED OF DARKNESS: All Ardo Melnikov ever dreamed of was living in peace on the verdant colony of Bountiful. That dream was shattered when the zerg attacked the colony and annihilated his loved ones. Now a marine charged with defending the worlds of the Terran Confederacy, he must come to terms with the painful memories of his past...and the unsettling truths that may dominate his future.
UPRISING: She is the Queen of Blades. Her name has become legend throughout the galaxy, and that legend is death for all who dare oppose the swarm. Nevertheless, Sarah Kerrigan was once human, and an extraordinary human at that. Forced to become one of the Terran Confederacy's merciless psionic assassins, she carried out her orders without question until a twist of fate propelled her toward a destiny no one could have foreseen. This is the tale of Kerrigan's shadowy origins -- and the war that was fought for her very soul.
About the Author
Gabriel Mesta is better known as his alter ego of Kevin J. Anderson. He has over 16 million books in print in 29 languages. Readers are most familiar with his Star Wars and X-Files novels; the Young Jedi Knights series with his wife, Rebecca Moesta; the prequels to Dune with Brian Herbert; and his original SF epic, "The Saga of Seven Suns" -- Hidden Empire, A Forest of Stars, and Horizon Storms (in which "Gabriel Mesta" briefly appears as a fictional character). His previous "fantastic historical" novel, Captain Nemo (written under the not-so-clever pen name of K. J. Anderson), has been optioned for a feature film or a TV miniseries. For more information on his numerous projects, see his website, www.wordfire.com.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A nice Starcraft Anthology., Feb 20 2008
By Zer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Starcraft Archive: An Anthology (Paperback)
This is a very good collection of Stacraft related stories--and has a pretty cool cover picture (though something tells me you aren't going to buy it just for that, eh).
It has all the good ones: Liberty's Crusade, Speed of Darkness (for me, and seemingly many, the best of the SC1 series) and, of course, Uprising; which I'm glad someone finally put it on paper, not only because it tells us about the beginnings of Sarah Kerrigan and the Sons of Korhal, which makes it wicked awesome, but also because it felt weird to read it as an ebook, at least for me.
However, as mentioned in the other review, it also has, ugh:-- Shadow of the Xel'Naga. Believe public opinion: it is bad. Anyways, you can just skip it, plus it doesn't have anything new; well, yes it does, but that's why spoilers exist, so you don't have to read the whole book and quite possibly cause youself serious injury--so yah, just skip it. They could've just added 'Queen of Blades' instead.
Now, back to topic: if you want a nice collection of some SC1 books instead of buying these three separately (I always found it more practical to have this one big book than all of those, anyways), plus the ebook, here it is.
It also has a cool intro by Blizzard's president, Mike Morhaime.
So, enjoy!
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
includes "Uprising" = good, includes "Shadows of the Xel'Naga" = bad, Dec 14 2007
By Nerwen - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Starcraft Archive: An Anthology (Paperback)
The main reason I can see for buying this anthology would be to acquire a copy of "Uprising" by Mickey Neilson. The other three stories are out as individual paperbacks, while "Uprising" was previously released only as an ebook. The following paragraph was my review for "Uprising" at the time it was still available:
I really enjoyed reading the story. This book is an excellent prequel to "Liberty's Crusade" (also an excellent Starcraft book), beginning with the destruction of Korhal from Mengsk's perspective, to his rescue of Kerrigan and how she came to be working with him. The characters were developed wonderfully and given fleshed-out backgrounds from the few hints given in the game. (20 Mar 2002)
Sadly, I lost my copy of the ebook because it was locked to the computer it was downloaded on, with no means whatsoever to move it anywhere else nor make copies. I'd been looking forward to getting a paper copy of "Uprising" ever since. Unfortunately, my refusal to have any part in monetarily supporting "Shadow of the Xel'Naga" greatly outweighs my desire to have a paper copy of "Uprising", so I will continue to wait on the hope it will be published again later on in another format, without being saddled by that monument to unspeakably bad writing.
And I will also continue to hold out hope that someone commissions a rewrite of the "Shadow of the Xel'Naga" story premise by an actual competent writer, so we can pretend that the Gabriel Mesta version never existed.
"Liberty's Crusade" by Jeff Grubb is very good. It follows the plotline of the first set of Terran missions from the game, and includes all the same relevant dialogue bits that you hear as you play - but from a different vantage point: through the eyes of civilian reporter Michael Liberty. It's an intriguing new perspective on a familiar story.
Tracy Hickman's "Speed of Darkness" is awesome. The story is set in the Starcraft universe, but is a brand new story. Instead of having an epic scope like all of the other storylines, it focuses in on one small group of Terrans as they try to defend against the Zerg in one bunker. The characters, all of them new, are very compelling and given a lot of depth.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
2 very good, 1 ok, 1 very very very very bad., Mar 11 2009
By Carlos E. L. Augusto "Sectoid" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Starcraft Archive: An Anthology (Paperback)
Just a "quick" review with my personal opinions, there are plenty others already if you look into the books one by one:
First and last books are really good. The first one starts slow, and I thought I wouldn't like it. I was wrong, it turned out to be the best of the compilation in my opinion. The main story in itself is not entirely new since it follows events on the original Terran campaign, but it's very well written and has much attention to details about the SC universe. You'll see yourself soon sympathyzing with the main character, and overjoying about the known characters acting like you would expect them to act. You can really hear their original game voices talking the lines :P
It's major problem is that it ends, much too soon.
The second book is just the contrary. WORST BOOK EVER, with all sincerity (and I can't live without a book to read in the everyday bus). In all aspects, it's gross: bad story overall, bad main characters, bad new characters, SC characters don't act like they should at all, no matching knowledge of anything SC, etc etc (read my review at the book link). Really, just skip this one. If you think of reading it because it may add something new and worthy to the universe (like I did after the first few chapters and kept doing until the end), even a tiny bit, know that you're wrong; it doesn't. It's hours of your life that'll never come back!
The third book is OK, so-so; it's not very engaging but it's true enough to SC. Has a few military acronyms thrown in that may lead you to Google, which I didn't like (small notes would solve the problem...). Worth reading if you're not too much picky.
The fourth and final book is also very good, almost as much as the first. It tells the story of how Kerrigan ended up at the hands of Mengsk, which in itself is the most promising plot. It also starts a bit slow, but after the middle it gets real good, and keeps up that way until the end. This book has a connection with the first, since it's a prequel to it. It's at the end for a reason though, and I also recommend reading it after the first and third books (don't read the second!).
All in all, it's not a very solid compilation, but I recommend it for the first and last books (which I would give 5 stars). I took one star off for the third book (which I would give 3 stars). I didn't take into account the second book (which I would give minus infinity), because I would have to give one star to the entire compilation if I did!
To Blizzard: you can say that you have only released mind-blowing games, but you really can't say that about your other products. How was a book like Shadow of the Xel'Naga approved?? It's utter crap and the authors clearly don't have a clue about SC! How about demanding of these other products the same love and high quality you give to your games?
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