Eve Online's most famous player wants to novelise its most famous war

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There are many novels written about video games (I own a few) but few like The Fountain War project that's raising money on Kickstarter right now. Whereas other books are stories imagined by game companies, this book will be about actual player events in Eve Online - sci-fi non-fiction.
It won't be a stale historical regurgitation but rather a proper storied tale woven by acclaimed military fiction (and sci-fi) author Jeff Edwards, who spent many years in the US Navy understanding things presumably not a million miles away from fleet warfare in Eve Online.
"The Fountain War has got everything an author could possibly want," he wrote on themittani.com. "It's loaded with action, espionage, greed, badass technology, betrayal, dirty politics, massive battles, acts of extraordinary heroism, and occasional moments of abject failure. It's got drama, comedy, irony, and all the other ingredients of blockbuster fiction.
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