World Book Day lets us come together on the first Thursday of every March to celebrate the best fiction medium that’s ever existed. That’s right, the video game tie-in novel. Many games contain a novel’s worth of text and fiction, but strangely the video game tie-in novel is still underused...
Yes, that’s Max Brooks, the author of amazing future-history zombie yarn World War Z. He’s writing a Minecraft novel, titled “Minecraft: The Island”. I’ve peeked at an early draft and it’s entirely amazing, just as we knew it would be. Think cuboid Robinson Crusoe, but madder: a hero stranded in...