Do you read gaming fiction?

[Krug]

Been devouring a lot of Warhammer fiction lately. Fast moving pulp fantasy/SF that's a lot of fun.

 

[Dirigible]

Is it still as blood-soaked as it used to be? Some of the old, old novels, pre-Felix and Gotrek were horrifically gorey.

 

[Tinker Gnome]

*Looks over to his small collection of FR books*

Yep.

 

[Krug]

Yeap it is, though I haven't read those really old ones. I only read Skavenslayer but didn't enjoy it that much.

They (Black Library) does have quite a good list of authors. Ian Watson, Kim Newman (writing as Jack Yeovil) are no small potatoes.

 

[CCamfield]

The only gaming fiction I've read and consider worthy of owning a copy is The Deed of Paksennarion - well, it's unlicensed "might as well be D&D" fiction. I might read more if I knew of reliably good authors, but I don't, and I don't want to waste money on something that turns out to be crappy. (I don't like doing that in general.)

 

[Null Boundry]

After the horror of the DragonLance books never again. It will take an awfull lot to get me to try another game book after that.

 

[Dark Jezter]

Yes, I read gaming fiction. I've been a fan of R.A. Salvatore's Forgotten Realms novels for quite some time now.

Some day, I also plan on reading the first two Dragonlance trilogies by Weis and Hickman, which I've heard are very good (although I've heard that I can skip all the other Dragonlance novels).

 

[Desdichado]

Not much of it. While there's some decent stuff out there, most of it tends to be bland and mediocre.

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

Every couple of years I go on a short gaming fiction binge for 3 or 4 books, then realize that they still haven't gotten much better than the last time I tried them. There are some exceptions, and they are genarally quick reads, so a couple of afternoons spent slumming through a few bad fantasy novels isn't all that bad.

 

[hong]

Ya know, we have an entire board here on EN World devoted to gaming fiction.