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Posted: Feb 11th 2008 1:06PM (Unverified) said

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I just love how "Tom Clancy's EndWar" is written by David Michaels. I'm going to write a new book called "David Michaels' Tom Clancy's EndWar" and it will be a novelized adaptation of this really great Sudoku puzzle I did on the train last week. I'll be selling the movie rights on ebay later today.
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Posted: Feb 11th 2008 1:11PM (Unverified) said

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hahahhahahhaha
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Posted: Feb 11th 2008 1:13PM xenocidic said

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tom clancy just provides the scenarios these days
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Posted: Feb 11th 2008 2:54PM (Unverified) said

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Actually, I didn't understand it for a while either, but apparently Tom Clancy has made persistent settings and had people write books set in them, like Asimov did. There's a couple series like this -- I don't have the time to look them up now, but I think one is "Net Force" or something? Anyway, I get the impression that's the deal here. I think it's a weird setup, but it's not unprecedented.
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Posted: Feb 11th 2008 3:07PM Demon G Sides said

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Its the Tom Clancy universe, not necessarily the writer. Just like all the games; set in the Clancy-verse, but not designed, written, or produced by Clancy at all.

Its a good gig; He gets paid royalties for the setting, and game developers get guaranteed sales because of its connection with good games.
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Posted: Feb 11th 2008 1:14PM (Unverified) said

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Well I can explain.
Somehow you managed to travel into the future through a portal. While 2 years in the future you saw a book that was actually based on Endwar which has sold 3 million copies worldwide.
Then the fabric of space-time un folded blasting you back to the year 2008 making the picture seem "Ironic" or as English Speakers will say, because we know the real meaning of Irony a "Complete load of bull"
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Posted: Feb 11th 2008 3:11PM Accessgranted said

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haha that's what I was thinking! =)
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Posted: Feb 11th 2008 1:20PM Evan Tribley said

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It really isn't that hard to think about. Just because the game isn't out doesn't mean the principle story and background isn't already written.

That said, Tom Clancy is one lucky guy, he wrote some great books, but now he gets to pull in the money sticking his name on video games and other people's books.
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Posted: Feb 11th 2008 1:36PM (Unverified) said

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Whoops. Meant to ask how it can be best selling. Fixed.
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Posted: Feb 11th 2008 1:25PM (Unverified) said

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tachnically after the "script" for the game was outlined an author could use that as source material and in fact base a book on the game even though the game wasn't out yet. Same for Movies... Books on movies have a habit of coming out just before the movie came out even though it is based on the movie so it isn't too hard to believe....
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Posted: Feb 11th 2008 1:27PM (Unverified) said

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Is the game out in Japan???
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Posted: Feb 11th 2008 1:44PM (Unverified) said

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that is funny
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Posted: Feb 11th 2008 2:27PM (Unverified) said

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It's 50% funnier IMO
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Posted: Feb 11th 2008 2:07PM (Unverified) said

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anyone read the mass effect prequel book months before the game was released?? it had something similar to that printed on it: "The prequel to the award-winning video game from Bioware!"

book release: may 1st, 2007.
game release: november 20th, 2007.

now, i guess they could mean "best of E3" awards or something, but it seems like the same idea.
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Posted: Feb 11th 2008 10:36PM (Unverified) said

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but it says bestselling, not award winning. What, did Ubi just sell millions of preorders before the game came out? That would be hilarious!
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