Mass Effect Book Samples at Bioware Site

Like Halo before it, Bioware’s upcoming and much anticipated science fiction RPG Mass Effect is being supported by traditional fiction and Bioware along with publisher Del Rey Books has released sample chapters of Revelation the upcoming 336 page novel. The title is written by Drew Karpyshy, a long time Bioware staff writer and the lead writer for Mass Effect, whose other credits include Baldur’s Gate II, Jade Empire and Neverwinter Nights. The site also features a Q&A with the writer in the message boards.

Here is the book’s summary from the Bioware site:

On the edge of colonized space, ship commander and Alliance war hero David Anderson investigates the remains of a top secret military research station; smoking ruins littered with bodies and unanswered questions. Who attacked this post and for what purpose? And where is Kahlee Sanders, the young scientist who mysteriously vanished from the base–hours before her colleagues were slaughtered?

Sanders is now the prime suspect, but finding her creates more problems for Anderson than it solves. Partnered with a rogue alien agent he can’t trust and pursued by an assassin he can’t escape, Anderson battles impossible odds on uncharted worlds to uncover a sinister conspiracy . . . one he won’t live to tell about. Or so the enemy thinks.