by Tiffany Bechdel on Sep 19, 2015
If you are a fan of the novels based off Blizzard games you have probably noticed that production on these books has all but become obsolete lately. However, this book dry spell will soon be broken. Blizzard has revealed that they have partnered with Random House to pump out new novels for our reading pleasure. The new publishing line will launch in March 2016 and will contain books from the Starcraft, Diablo, and Warcraft settings.
Being one of the biggest publishers in the world, we can expect to see some pretty big names writing about our favorite games. For instance, the first book in line; World of Warcraft: Illidan is written by none other than William King. King is the author of Games Workshop's Warhammer novels. This book will lead us directly into the next World of Warcraft expansion: Legion.
Even more exciting, at least one book will be written by Timothy Zahn, the author of the Star Wars trilogy Heir to the Empire. For those looking for the return of writers like Christie Golden or Rochard A. Knaak, you will have to keep waiting. As of now, no word has been released on if these writers will be an active part of the new line of books.
As a fan of the books, this is pretty exciting news. If things go well we can expect to see some pretty epic things from the Random House/Blizzard combination. Let us just hope that with such a big publishing company, nothing of the game universes we love get lost along the way. What do you think about the Blizzard/Random House coupling?