New Bioshock novel to shock readers

David Swan
Tuesday, 04 January 2011 11:43

Your IT - Entertainment

A recent listing on Amazon has confirmed that Bioshock: Rapture is on the way, a 448-page prequel novel that tells of the history of Rapture, Bioshock's fictional underwater world.

'¨The book, based on the wildly popular PC/console series and written by John Shirley, features an introductory chapter from Ken Levine, the founding member of Irrational Games.

The novel was set for release in 2009 but Shirley was apparently told to beef up the story, and has now added an additional 30,000 words to the novel's length. It is now due for release in March 2011.

The book's description on Amazon reads as follows:

It's the end of World War II. FDR's New Deal has redefined American politics. Taxes are at an all-time high. The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki has brought a fear of total annihilation.

The rise of secret government agencies and sanctions on business has many watching their backs. America's sense of freedom is diminishing . . . and many are desperate to take there freedom back.

Among them is a great dreamer, an immigrant who pulled himself from the depths of poverty to become one of the wealthiest and admired men in the world. That man is Andrew Ryan, and he believed that great men and women deserve better.

And so he set out to create the impossible, a utopia free from government, censorship, and moral restrictions on science--where what you give is what you get. He created Rapture---the shining city below the sea.

But as we all know, this utopia suffered a great tragedy. This is the story of how it all came to be . . .and how it all ended.