I just saw that my good buddy Tobias S. Buckell got a gig writing the next Halo novel. I don’t know exactly how well those books sell, but I suspect that it has to be measured by the cubic crapload. Toby, whose futuristic fiction combines kickass action and adventure with cutting-edge speculation and research, is an inspired choice to pen a Halo novel. Very exciting.
Hopefully some significant fraction of the vast legion of Halo players will pick up Toby’s Halo novel and then from there find their way over to his other fiction and to other science fiction generally. When I was an adolescent, my interest in fantasy literature was nurtured by TSR’s Dragonlance novels, which were perfect for me at that age and which I first came to through the associated video games, so I know firsthand that this sort of videogame -> media fiction -> standalone fiction migration does happen.
Good pic! There’s been much hyperactive jumping around our house.