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I read the sample, seems quite interesting. Erika's writing style feels really colorful to me. I've read over a lot of Battle reports and when they describe a battle it feels very mechanical. It's written in a way so that you could really envision how the players are feeling, and what the battle really looks like on screen so that the hardcore gamer won't complain about it being too vague in description.
The way Erika wrote it (in the sample) seems to appeal to a broader variety of readers. I felt like I was watching a battle scene from Lord of the Rings but in space across three continents. So it was really cool, and I can see other people who don't know what Starcraft is enjoying the read.
Overall I think I think it's awesome that a book like this is written. Now if I have a friend who I want to introduce Starcraft to, I can show them this book. Looking forward to buying a copy of it.
EDIT: @Odal yeah sure the GSL Team games thing was silly, but let's not hammer down the book just for that. You'll basically be mocking people who aren't as dedicated to E-Sports as we are and as a result comments like that will stagnate our growth.
Not being a big reader myself, we should leave the opinions of the authors writing to serious readers =P. Otherwise this is going to look like the Strategy forums.
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Sean Boxer... o.o If he's forced to kill someone in the book his name better be changed to Slayers. In any case, very interesting. I wonder what you could get a progamer set up for. 
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@ErikaMitchell, Scouter: Just from one artist to another, I was taught not to have disclaimers when reading in public or presenting the material to anyone. It cheapens the experience for the reader, as the summary of text will provide the answers to a readers questions.
Good fortune!
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On June 22 2011 05:04 Odal wrote:
I don't know if any of you have actually read the chapters but.. Practicing for gsl in team games? It's horribly written and it makes me embarrassed to be a member of the starcraft community
I didn't want to be the first guy to say this, but... it's true  There's a reason people don't write sports fiction any more: it doesn't work. You simply can't recreate the excitement of a real game, and the only sports fiction that really works is the type where the in-game action is barely mentioned. Try The Damned United (there's a decent film version if you can't get hold of the book in America).
The fact that there were errors in the sample chapter isn't helpful (the plural of colossus is colossi) and the writing style is incredibly wooden and lifeless. The content was genuinely cringe-worthy (sorry, but i can't lie) and it felt like the author was just trying to cram in as many insider references as possible. I mean, Sean Boxer? Really? I haven't read much fan fiction in my life, but i imagine that this is what it reads like. Sorry to be harsh, but hopefully you can take some helpful criticism from this.
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How long is that book? I'm very interested to read it but I'd like to hear some reviews first :D. Available in the UK? (Paperback)
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Interesting idea to bring into a novel format, I might just have to pick this one up!
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I'm surprised this got published
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Haha, this sounds like such a troll.
Cool anyhow, anything that promotes E-sport ^^
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On June 22 2011 04:26 ErikaMitchell wrote:
PWNED tells the story of Sean Boxer
Oh come on now, that was just too obvious.
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On June 22 2011 05:04 Odal wrote:
I don't know if any of you have actually read the chapters but.. Practicing for gsl in team games? It's horribly written and it makes me embarrassed to be a member of the starcraft community
Yeah. I don't want to shit in someone's sponsored thread but I am torn between this just being bad but an honest person's effort at writing a story or if it's the result of someone who noticed how popular SC2 is lately and having the clever idea to type out a short story one afternoon and sell it because they knew at least a handful of people will support anything if you throw out the magic word (esports).
It's not very good
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On June 22 2011 05:33 Brotatolol wrote:I'm surprised this got published
Self-publishing is very easy. There are also many books which are basically an interesting title/premise and really horrible content that sell well because... people just look at the title. It's like a book called Zombie Ninja Monsters! Isn't that so outrageous??
I don't know if that is the case with this book, but I'd be weary and hope to find a sample of the writing before spending money on it, just because it is likely it was written because StarCraft is popular, not because the author wanted to write about StarCraft.
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i read the chapters. this book is terrible! the author is obviously a silver level noob, not even in touch with the community.
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On June 22 2011 06:34 Chef wrote:Self-publishing is very easy. There are also many books which are basically an interesting title/premise and really horrible content that sell well because... people just look at the title. It's like a book called Zombie Ninja Monsters! Isn't that so outrageous?? I don't know if that is the case with this book, but I'd be weary and hope to find a sample of the writing before spending money on it, just because it is likely it was written because StarCraft is popular, not because the author wanted to write about StarCraft.
Sample chapters here http://www.erika-mitchell.com/books/pwned/pwned-chapters-1-2/
Consider yourself warned...
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On June 22 2011 06:31 floor exercise wrote:Show nested quote +On June 22 2011 05:04 Odal wrote:
I don't know if any of you have actually read the chapters but.. Practicing for gsl in team games? It's horribly written and it makes me embarrassed to be a member of the starcraft community Yeah. I don't want to shit in someone's sponsored thread but I am torn between this just being bad but an honest person's effort at writing a story or if it's the result of someone who noticed how popular SC2 is lately and having the clever idea to type out a short story one afternoon and sell it because they knew at least a handful of people will support anything if you throw out the magic word (esports). It's not very good
Yeah. Ripping off midnight gladeus my reaction to this book is Mreow? (sc1 probe sound >.>)
I'm torn on this one.
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Nice book but what I want is a movie about Savior.
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On June 22 2011 04:30 fearlessparagon wrote:
Sounds like Enders game
Have you read Ender's Game? I haven't read anything about this book except for the description in the OP and I can promise you that this is NOTHING like Ender's Game.
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I was interested, then read the sample chapters. I was very disappointed, reads like a medicore online fanfic, sc2 seems references seems to forced, going to pass,
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I know every thread is supposed to be very positive these days on tlnet... but that summary and those outtakes were horrible and convinced me i'd never want to read this book.
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