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

So the first Mass Effect Andromeda novel will be by a Hugo Award winner, can't wait.

Then i expect a masterpiece...hehehe kidding, no pressure. As long the book is pleasing to read i am okay.

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It has been announced and Titan Books has a a short synopsis of the prequel with Jemisin as the author. What puzzles many is the fact that there is no update on the book's publishing date.

I, for one, am not bothered by it. I accept the premise that Andromeda is a new Mass Effect story in a different galaxy. I know the why and don't care about the how.

Still won't buy the book.

If she is indeed the author for the first book, if not more, i look forward to the reads. If she's not, congratulations to her regardless. Reads like she really earned the award.

I suspect the thing Sartoz is referencing is the brief published on page 12 of Titan's 2016 Fiction Rights Guide. But with 7 days left in the month, it seems clear the August target mentioned there isn't happening, so who knows what else could have changed.

You don't care about the how because there is no satisfactory answer to the how, so you would rather damage the logical integrity of the ME universe than question BioWare's dubious judgment.

That's why I said we'll just have to keep waiting to see what, if anything, eventually comes out on it.

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You need to download the pdf file.
Download it here: media.titanbooks.com/filebrowser/2016_rights_guides_fiction_libf1.pdf

I thought there was controversy surrounding Hugo now. Ideological fights from both sides and less to do with stories.

There better be turian rickshaws.

Indeed so. I've read the Inheritance Cycle and The Fifth Season and they're all very readable books. The Inheritance cycle even has this rare thing: an ending I love. I never noticed any elements in her books that didn't feel natural. So whatever ideology she has IRL, she knows how to write good stories. I respect that. Even if she does inject her ideology into her work - I don't think any writer can avoid that completely btw - as long as it feels natural to the setting, it's ok with me.

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I am reminded again of Tolkien's famous comments on allegory and applicability. I don't mind it if stories set in fictional worlds have application for real-world issues, because that's in the hand of the reader. I don't like it, though, if they appear to be explicitly written to send a message about real-world issues. For the same reason, I applaud it how elements of Thedas are applicable to real-world racism while remaining perfectly in their own world (example: the city elves), while I do mind that in DAI, some of Thedas' characters look - completely without precedent in this long-running world - exactly like real-world Africans. Jemisin appears to understand the difference and she writes her stories so that whatever applicability they may have, they remain in their own world.

Edit2:
If the claims about her "controversial comments" are aimed at her comments about Theodore Beale, they appear to be completely spot-on.