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[Signal27]

The majority of BattleTech fiction novels I've ever seen or heard of usually dealt with either Steiner, Davion, Kurita, or the clans. Does anybody know of any novels where House Marik is the primary House it focuses on? And are they any good?

[Adridos]

Maybe some Jihad stuff? They must've made a novel with Marik in mind during that age...
Before, well, I only know of this one:

Star Lord - Knights of the Inner Sphere, but that's only loosely Marik.

Oh, and Ideal War, which is again about the KotIS, but at least this time, they're the ones the novel is about..

Edited by Adridos, 16 February 2013 - 03:02 PM.

[Polignac]

Yeah, I've been wondering about this myself but don't know of any

[dal10]

there are a couple in the Dark ages, but really only star lord and ideal war deal with marik in the original series.

[Abrissbirne]

If you're benevolent, you might count "The Price Of Glory" as well. It's focused on the GDL, true, but it is set in Marik space.

[Stormwolf]

IIRC, Bred for war had a part about Operation Guerrero in it, not quite sure since it's been more then a decade since I read the book.

[Adridos]

Mark Brandhauber, on 17 February 2013 - 01:33 PM, said:

Ideal War, deals with the formation of the knights of the Inner Sphere.

I've already suggested that one to him.

Edited by Adridos, 17 February 2013 - 01:40 PM.

[Kraven Kor]

Aren't we kind of "to blame" for the whole Word of Blake thing? Was that covered in the novels?

I only ready a very few of them.

[Abrissbirne]

Nope, we were not. As stated in "Lost Destiny", WoB seceded from ComStar after Tukkayid, when taking over the FIS didn't work and Precentor Martial Anastasius Focht and Prima Sharilar Mori tried to enforce parting with the old ways of ComStar at gunpoint. In later novels the actions of WoB was mentioned, and the CBT novels never went beyond the end of the FedCom Civil War.

WoB was ComStar's "fault."

[Panthros]

The Marik people and Word of Blake are to blame for the millions of lives taken during the Jihad. The Marik people fought beside and assisted WOB. The only good thing that came out of the Jihad was the Knights,of the Inner Sphere. Oh wait the Marik military killed their own people as well.

That is like saying only {Godwin's Law}'s are only to blame for the millions of Jews who died during WWII. The German people at the time are just as much to blame as the {Godwin's Law} regime. They supported and allowed it to happen.

Now Germany is the most prosperous European county so perhaps there is hope for the FWLM.

[Strum Wealh]

Signal27, on 16 February 2013 - 02:27 PM, said:

The majority of BattleTech fiction novels I've ever seen or heard of usually dealt with either Steiner, Davion, Kurita, or the clans. Does anybody know of any novels where House Marik is the primary House it focuses on? And are they any good?

As was mentioned previously, the main coverage of the FWL in terms of novels comes during the Dark Age - specifically, Pandora's Gambit (which covers the power struggle for the (would-be) Captain-Generalship) and the trio of Fire at Will, The Last Charge, and To Ride the Chimera (which cover the Lyrans' invasion of the FWL - what's left of it, anyway - in "Operation Hammerfall").

Also, there are a trio of German novels - Früchte voll Bitterkeit (a technically-apocryphal novel published under license from FanPro), In Ungnade (a non-canonical translation of a canonical BattleCorps story), and Präludium (another technically-apocryphal novel) - that focus on the FWL; the first two take place during the Star League era, and the latter takes place during the later part of the Succession Wars era (specifically, 3015-3030).

Edited by Strum Wealh, 21 October 2013 - 08:54 AM.

[Trynn Allen]

Panthros, on 20 October 2013 - 03:14 PM, said:

The Marik people and Word of Blake are to blame for the millions of lives taken during the Jihad. The Marik people fought beside and assisted WOB. The only good thing that came out of the Jihad was the Knights,of the Inner Sphere. Oh wait the Marik military killed their own people as well.

That is like saying only {Godwin's Law}'s are only to blame for the millions of Jews who died during WWII. The German people at the time are just as much to blame as the {Godwin's Law} regime. They supported and allowed it to happen.

Now Germany is the most prosperous European county so perhaps there is hope for the FWLM.

Unless of course you were from...Oh wait for the Silver Hawks. Those guys nuked more WoB's than any other faction including Marik House troops. Those guys went after WoB with a vengence not even the disaffected from ComStar could match.

[Kraven Kor]

Trynn Allen, on 20 October 2013 - 05:21 PM, said:

Unless of course you were from...Oh wait for the Silver Hawks. Those guys nuked more WoB's than any other faction including Marik House troops. Those guys went after WoB with a vengence not even the disaffected from ComStar could match.

I did not know that, and it makes me proud

I hate the whole WoB storyline.

[dal10]

the principality of regulus also nuked the blakist "Capital world" of Gibson.

[AlexEss]

While not Marik specific you have the books about the Camacho´s Caballeros who hail from the FWL.

Close Quarters, Hearts of Chaos, and Black Dragon, all written by Victor Milán.

[CyclonerM]

Wobbies are just not fault of ComStar.. Nor the FWL.. But my knowdlege of the Jihad and Dark Age eras is so limited..

[dal10]

hell, the wobbies may still exist. 2 of the 5 hidden worlds have never been found to the best of my knowledge. and one is a ship yard while the other is a mech factory.

[Molossian Dog]

Back to the original question.

The whole storyline of the impeding FWL re-unification in the 3140ies is spread out over several novels.

Pandora´s Gambit
Fire at Will
The last Charge
(especially) To Ride the Chimera

The last novel kind of summarizes alot of Dark Age plotlines, even if it is not specifically FWL centered : A Bonfire of Worlds

I don´t consider them especially well written though. Entertaining yes, but not great literature.

[Strum Wealh]

Molossian Dog, on 22 October 2013 - 12:08 PM, said:

Entertaining yes, but not great literature.

Isn't that a fairly accurate generalization of BT literature as a whole - more "guilty pleasures" than "literary masterpieces"?

[dal10]

stackpole doesn't even get that much... cerulean beam much?