A review by wyrmbergmalcolm
Nova by Chris Metzen, Keith R.A. DeCandido

5.0

First up, the front cover is a lie. This is literally the end result at the conclusion of the book. November is a young girl who traumatically reaches her psionic potential. Heavily influenced by Alfred Bester’s The Demolished Man this barely qualifies as a StarCraft book in that it’s played out on the streets of poverty but curiously makes the StarCraft universe stronger. There’s more to the Kropulu sector than just the three species war and this book shows how ordinary rich and poor people live as well as their views on the war. Not what I expected, but far better than I had hoped for a book based on a first-person shooter game that never happened.