Electronic Arts (EA) has announced that Del Rey will publish a novel based on the Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars video game title. Del Rey is connected to Ballantine Books at the Random House Publishing Group. Keith R. A. DeCandido will write the Command & Conquer Tiberium novel.
Command & Conquer Tiberium Wars Novel Overview:
- In COMMAND & CONQUER: TIBERIUM WARS, the novel by Keith R. A. DeCandido, the year is 2047 and the stakes could not be higher. Tiberium, a self-replicating alien substance that has infected the Earth, is spreading like a radioactive ice age. The Global Defense Initiative, a high-tech alliance of the world’s most advanced nations, is fighting to contain Tiberium, but Kane, the megalomaniacal leader of the Brotherhood of Nod has other plans for Earth. Kane’s secret society turned superpower is bent on using Tiberium to take control and transform humanity into his twisted vision of the future. In the midst of battles throughout the world, a third alien race emerges, and all-out war rages over Tiberium. The fate of the planet rests in the balance.
Patrick O’Brien, VP, Business Affairs, EA comments, “We’re excited to expand the Command & Conquer franchise to a new form of media and offer a profundity to the primary fiction of the game series like never before. Keith DeCandido wrote a great story, and we’re pleased to have partnered with him and Del Rey.”
Del Rey editor Keith Clayton says, “Command & Conquer remains one of the most popular and well-reviewed gaming franchises, and we’re excited to have the chance to work on an original story set in EA’s Tiberium Universe.”
Command & Conquer Tiberium Wars Novel will be release in the US and Canada on May 29, 2007. The UK and Germany launch will happen after some months. Some weeks ago, we had posted about the Mass Effect book. It seems that video game publishers have found out a ‘novel’ but a good way to promote their games.