Gabriel Mesta

This is generally cheap-feeling, probably rushed to produce, franchise tie-in media and reads like it. Worth it for nostalgia for an earlier era and that's pretty much it, you aren't going to feel the need to ever read these again. Quality, of course, varies.

Jeff Grubb's Liberty's Crusade - Basically the plot of the video game written from the first-person perspective of a reporter assigned to Jim Raynor's group. Grubb's new material is generally interesting instead of forced and it was show more worth reading as a companion piece to the game even if large portions of the text are literally the game script.

Kevin J. Anderson (Gabriel Mesta)'s Shadow of the Xel'Naga - Light this garbage on fire. KJA's work is godawful as per normal. Not only does he not actually have any familiarity or understanding of the world he's writing for, it isn't even good writing on its own.

Tracy Hickman's Speed of Darkness - On the complete opposite spectrum from KJA, Tracy Hickman is an excellent, imaginative writer and it shows. Even though this is clearly not one he was putting his best effort into, there's a high floor for his work. Tried to do a ground-level perspective from characters that are in-game just pixelly mans for you to shoot at, and provide some introspection. Best novel in the anthology.

Micky Neilson's Uprising - Includes some material relating to Proper Nouns that got namedropped with otherwise zero elaboration in the game manual's backstory writing and notable for that, but honestly I barely remember it at all. Obviously didn't make much of an impression on me. Did what the author was hired to do, I guess. show less

Only read the book if you are a die-hard fan of Starcraft universe and every single piece of Lore is interesting to you. If you are not, don't waste your time reading it. Other than that, the book is horrible .. I wanted to give it one stars, but I added one just because it's in the Starcraft universe.

Although the book didn't have an actual moral, the author's use of adjectives made the book really realistic. Also, the story itself was thrilling and exciting.

(218 pages carried over) This book is about a teenage girl with the name Octavia Bren, who's brother died from an alien called the Xel Naga, who created two alien species called the Protoss and the Zerg. The Xel Naga were supposed to be dead because the Zerg betrayed them and attacked them. An artifact was known to be one of the Xel Nagas. The Human, the Protoss and the Zerg all fight for the Xel Naga artifact so they can have unlimited power, but the only result was total chaos. No one show more ended up owning the artifact because it was actually an egg that hatched. show less