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[Suicidal Mushroom]

So who here has taken up their reading of novels and tech books after they Got the news that there will be a MWO?

I will start today. Dont know where to start really. I have all the novels and I have read some of them.

Guess it would be smart to start reading novels in the years just before the Clan Invasion and under the invasion. But wish book is a good start?

[Stormwolf]

I've been rereading Blood of Kerensky recently.

[Kynlore]

Heh, I have. I have about a dozen of the paperback books that I started again the other night.

[Jack Gallows]

I'm finishing the Song of Ice and Fire series atm, but I've got Lethal Heritage going to work with me to read on breaks.

[Rubyfan]

If you have all of the Battletech books, I would start with Decision at Thunder Rift and read them in the order they were published. That way you follow the history of the Inner Sphere from around the end of the Third Succession War up to the beginning of the Fed-Com Civil War. I would estimate that is you read one book every five days or so, you would finish up just in time for the projected release date of the game.

[T S Hawk]

In all honesty I started re-reading the novels after I got the introductory box set for the table top game.

[Dihm]

Gotta finish A Dance with Dragons first, then some Terry Pratchett, then I'll probably roll through them again. I have been reading my old Field Manuals, core rulebooks, and TROs though.

Edited by Dihm, 05 November 2011 - 08:11 AM.

[Suicidal Mushroom]

Is Sword and the Dagger worth a reading? As far as I know its the first novel that was made. If not ill start with Decision at Thunder Rift.
I have read some of the novels already, but I dont remember alot from them xD I guess its most important to get to 3050 since the game with start in 3049

[IS Wolf]

minux, on 05 November 2011 - 08:27 AM, said:

Is Sword and the Dagger worth a reading? As far as I know its the first novel that was made. If not ill start with Decision at Thunder Rift.
I have read some of the novels already, but I dont remember alot from them xD I guess its most important to get to 3050 since the game with start in 3049

Second one to come out, but that was due to switching authors iirc.
Anyway, it's out of print, and it's one of the few novels that I haven't read (I pretty much ignore anything beyond Endgame. Rest never happened as far as I'm concerned. ). So, I'm afraid I don't have an answer for you, on how good it is.

[Jack Gallows]

I'm going to read the Blood of Kerensky, then the Twilight of the Clans, followed by the books that form the Fedcom Civil war, methinks.

[The Chief]

Actually I am on a slight break right now while I am reading another novel, but before that I have been reading the BT novels and making treks to any nearby used bookstores to find others to add to my ever growing library. Unfortunately I am missing the second of three books that Victor Milan wrote and the second of the Blood of Kerensky trilogy. I am still resisting the lure of e-readers.

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Edited by The Chief, 05 November 2011 - 10:56 PM.

[sorcerror]

If you want to catch up on the "core" storyline of Btech I'd suggest reading the following. The list spans roughly from 3049-3062 and I've further divided it under 3 headings. Always good to know your history!

(MW: Online is starting so early in the timeline though that the events depicted in the novels below might not be relevant at the game launch.)

Stackpole Era
Lethal Heritage
Blood Legacy
Lost Destiny
Natural Selection
Assumption of Risk
Bred for War
Malicious Intent

Reborn Star League Era (officially known as the Twilight of the Clans)
Exodus Road
Grave Covenant
The Hunters
Freebirth
Sword and Fire
Shadows of War
Falcon Rising
Prince of Havoc

Final Trilogy
Patriots and Tyrants
Storms of Fate
Endgame