Mass Effect Andromeda books & comics (Nexus Uprising 'soon')

It is still possible for the book to be a prequel and for it to make sense that it came out after the game like, say, if there were a twist that was revealed in the game and in the book, said twist is a part of the plot.

To put it differently: in the game, the twist is, well, a twist and we see it as it is and deal with it. In the book, we see how the twist came to be like the thoughts and actions of the characters that helped make it.

The original announcement of the prequel novel has been very appetizing to me. I'm pre-salivating over it, actually, and my dog is licking up all of my drooling. (Gross!)

My first reaction, at hearing that Jemison's prequel book may now be the third novel installment and published after the game's release, is that this is one more unforced error and the loss of a golden opportunity for BW to create Mass Hysteria over Andromeda. Such a move doesn't create suspenseful anticipation - it creates a source for backlash which BW/EA certainly don't need to unwittingly foster again.

My second thought draws from the Halo prequel game Halo: Reach - a  game that shows the events immediately preceding the first game Halo: Combat Evolved. A very nice game indeed, and it doesn't have the primary Halo story characters. The player joins a healthy squad of super-warriors no one had seen before.

So I'm not ready to discount the value of a prequel novel that arrives after Andromeda's release.

But N7 day this year had better be a good one. However, if BW creates more self-inflicted wounds this time around.... Well, then the once great city (and franchise) will have fallen under it's own corporate management weight and marketing mismanagement (which is what I suspect is already happening), and I don't want to see that occur. May the countdown continue uninterrupted - and surprise the heck out of most of us (esp for the Nattering Nabobs of Negativity) on N7, 2016.

Unless they put a twist regarding the Rymother or someone else we already like during the game. They put a cliffhanger in the game, and the Jemisin's book explore that in the prequel, the origins of that character decision before the trip to Andromeda.
But yea, I was so interested in the prequel before playing the first game... a real bummer 

Yep, that's true.
We know nothing... for a change.
ARRRGRGGG!!!

I just finished The Fifth Season. I think N.K. Jemisin was cheated at the Hugos. She should have won all of them.

The style of TFS reminded me a lot of Gene Wolfe or Jack Vance. Easily in my top 5 for the decade, and that's saying something, since this decade has seen some great work by James S. A. Corey, Kim Stanley Robinson, Ann Leckie, Charles Stross, and GRRM.

*sneaks in*

Uprooted should have won

*sneaks out*

It won the Nebula, don't be greedy. I haven't read it yet, but it's on my list. I tend to prefer Nebula winners to Hugos, not sure why -- maybe because the Hugo vote can be manipulated. We'll have to see.

I love you Karpyshyn, but let's be honest here - the Mass Effect novels until now haven't been anything spectacular. They are pretty inaccessible to anyone who isn't already a fan of the series, the plots are predictable and the writing style extremely basic, all are thematically barren.

The authors that have been lined up for these books however are extremely impressive. I'm a big reader, so for Mass Effect to get potentially some novels which could be only half as good as The Witcher books is a big step in the right direction. The release of these books is a bit of a disappointment. I can't help but think if they were being released in the run up to the game hitting stores it would increase their sales a bit more and generate hype the right way, but you can't have it all I guess.

I really can't wait for them to be released.. That would help sate my Andromeda hunger.

Well.. at least for a little while.

It'll be an instant purchase as soon as they're released, that's for sure.

I did, but that's because I had the misfortune of reading his Halo novel.