EVE Fiction

I just finished The empyrean age yesterday. I don't exactly understand why it gets so much hate, themittani.com and other places seem to really rag on it.

Its not masterwork of literature, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.

I don't fully understand Jamyl Sarum and both her "sides"
Whats up with Falek Grange?

I am getting ready to start the burning life, then on to Templar on. Sadly I was only able (at that time) to get the second two in hardback.

I am going to guess that Templar one is going to expand more on some of the lingering issues.

I hated TEA, almost since the beginning. But not because it is not well written (not a masterpiece of literature, but it doesn't fail horribly either), but of the story: it's too full of Deus Ex's everywhere (the Elders, the Broker, Jamyl...) that seem to just derail the story every time they appear, throwing into an unexpected and rather hard to believe direction each time. It has things that are quite hard to understand from a scientific point of view (for example, why the hell does The Broker's disease move with him from clone to clone?) and it twists the lore of all factions beyond the point of logic (megacorporations? Bah, throw them all under Heth, we need to simplify Caldari lore even if we basically destroy it!).

So, all and all, I hoped those pages had never been written, and it has taken all my desires to read the rest away.

That issue with Sarum.... Templar one explains that.

It also explains why DUST Bunnies are evil :O

Burning life is not as bad as people make it out to be. But at some point you will be confused, and will strugle to actually finish the book. The ending was a nice twist.


He was cloned before the disease was discovered I guess/

The main points, I believe. Not from me, just the view of the community as I perceive it.

• The Caldari are portrayed as fascists, and the fundamentals of culture and structure of the Caldari State are annihilated.
• The Amarr are portrayed as cartoon villains. Zero redeeming features. Its leadership seems to consist of sadistic atheists and blooders.
• The Gallente are portrayed as blundering idiots.
• The Broker's involvement cheapens everything he touches.
• The portrayal of women is borderline misogynic.
• Gratuitous sex scenes to get teenage boys flustered.
• Not a single plot resolves without an ass-pulled Deus Ex Machina
• Constant misspellings of character and ship names.

Falick Grange had a memory loss when he woke up in his new clone, the data transfer when someone is podded isnt perfect happens to another character in the book as well but not as severe. And without his memories he is another person. I have always wondered if the burning scanner tranfers the consciousness or the soul. Or just copies the memories and personality of the person who dies have read a lot that suggest that the clone is just a copy of the former nothing else. CCP did play a little when it came to the races characteristics the gallente are for example hedonistic and grand ;) .

I read The Empyrean Age before I got a better understanding of the lore in EVE. It's a good read on it's own but compared to the actual lore of the game it doesn't do much justice.

Some parts are better than others. I like the depiction of Heth's takeover of the Kaalakoita corporation, that part was particularly well written and easy to picture. Some other parts, eh not so much. I feel that a lot of work was put into making the Caldari and Minmatar as interesting as possible where as the Amarr and Gallente are a bit simplified. At least that's how I see it. I've met people who've argued the opposite.

The Deus Ex Machina's are a little excessive, but they are pretty fun to imagine if unrealistic.

I feel the main problem is that the author just needed to jump around between so many view points and perspectives in one book that it left all of them feeling a little unsatisfying.

In my opinion, it should of been a four part series, one focused on each race's perspective. Put them all together and you get a full picture of everything. This will make virtually everything much more well thought out and developed. If well written and very focused, it wouldn't wind up spoiling the outcomes of the other faction's books.

I normally reread a book a couple of times, maybe 6 months apart but after I read George Martins A song of Ice and Fire series I can't read The Empyrean Age and get bored after a couple of pages

The Burning Life is very different from TEA and Templar One, but I liked it. The Tony Gonzalez novels are big space opera epics, where The Burning Life is smaller scale. It's the stories of two individuals, instead of huge-scale stories about history being made in Empire space. It's also a little more grim, similar to the way the Chronicles are grim. But I thought it was very well written. And if nothing else, it gives a lot of details on the Sisters of EVE and various pirate factions.

The RPer and Lore-studying community in EVE was aghast at TEA due to it's author having apparently not read a good chunk of his own world's documentation.

Honor Harrington?
Royal Navy space combat 4tw!