Turbine Games Q&A/Backstory/Q-27

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Any chance we'll start seeing AC novels?

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Asked:	2000.11.22
Name:	Mann ibn Mann
Question Title:	Any chance we'll start seeing AC novels?
Category:	Backstory
Question:	Any chance you'll farm out the AC backstory to fantasy authors, similar to what they did with AD&D;, Magic the Gathering and Battletech? I'd definitely snatch up a copy or two if you had a decent author writing 'em, Salvatore, Stackpole and Hickman & Weiss come to mind.

Answered:	2000.11.22
Name:	Stormwaltz
Answer:	That's up to Microsoft - they own the intellectual property. Judging solely on the basis of their previous decisions, I would doubt it. MS has never published a tie-in novel for one of their games. Personally, I can't abide Stackpole's work. He's a good plotter, but all his characters are indistinguishable from each other - often they even have the same mannerisms. If the job wasn't offered to Pierson and myself, I'd ask for Mary Doria Russel, Neil Gaiman, and Tanith Lee.