Not too long ago, Neil Kaplan from Simon and Schuster released an Audio Book of William C. Deitz' new Starcraft book, Heaven's Devils. The first chapter begins with a report from Max Spear, a UNN News Caster, overviewing recent Kel-Morian attacks in the Koprulu Sector. Because of said attacks, increases in Military resources hinder Agricultural support, causing independent farmers to suffer financially. From here, we follow an 18 year old Jim Raynor, on the planet Shilo, where learn about rashioning and tax increases for protection against the Kel-Morian Combine. This chapter offers a decent amount of dialog as opposed to general back story. Fortunately, Kaplan does a nice job at differentiating between characters when dialog is going on and goes reads the book very clearly.
You can download and listen to the first chapter of the book at your own leisure here.
First chapter catch your ear? Interested in getting your own copy? Starting right now, we are running a contest and five physical copies of the Audio Book will be given out.<span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span>
If you aren't lucky enough to win your own copy, you can still purchases it from Simon and Schuster. You may also get it from iTunes and Audible.
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">How to Enter:</span>
In order to be added to the drawing for these CD's all you need to do is make a constructive comment on this announcement. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The deadline on this giveaway is May 31st.</span>
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Posted May 31, 2010This announcement is great to add to the lore of the Starcraft universe. it should be interesting how Deception test Raynor's will to survive in this book. I am excited.
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Posted May 29, 2010Great news, I really look forward to listen to this, because Starcraft have a huge potential for good stories to be written. I hope Heaven's Devils will introduce Tycus Finley (Jim Rynors's companion) and other interesting characters. And when the game comes out, campaign will be even more interesting. I only hope that narrator voice is fine and not annoying :)
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Posted May 22, 2010I remember when we used to listen to these 3 hour radio dramas with the whole family. I've never again listened to an audio book since the coming of television and the computer. It would be great to hear one again, especially if it's StarCraft! Would be a great help on my running exercise :)
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Posted May 20, 2010Its been ages since I last listened to an audio book (cassette tapes on long car journeys...those were the days)..would be interesting to hear some of the more recent books.
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Posted May 18, 2010am so excited about this i been a starcraft fan for a long time and been waiting for it to come out!
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Posted May 17, 2010This is really cool. I used to spend hours just reading about Starcraft Lore on sites such as starcraft.wikia.com lol. I'm actually planning on buying the physical book, maybe even the collectors edition because I'm liking the excerpts I read so far on the official SC2 website. I would love to win a copy of the audio book though as it will probably be a while before I buy the physical book.