All objects have uses which are critical to the plot. Too much of the plot is based on an adventure-game like series of events - an object is found, kept, and used. There are other, more subtle cases that show all too painfully that the book is based on a computer game. I don’t know about you, but to me, this sounds like a plain description of the game’s user interface! They shifted and turned with him so that they were always visible no matter where he happened to be in the room. Glowing labels hovered above or in front of many displays like convocations of fireflies participating in some lampyriaecous military tattoo.

Some were enclosed in flowing transparent cocoons fashioned of material like spun sugar. In chapter 11, we encounter the following description:īack inside the spire, he began to examine more closely the bulges in the walls and, in particular, various alien devices that rested inanimate in corners or clustered together on the bare floor. (It should be noted that I have not played, or seen, The Dig as a computer game.) However, in this case, the result is a little awkward. And indeed, the writing is fluent and enjoyable the style is Foster’s typical script-based style, allowing you to easily recall the sights of the movie if you’ve seen it before, or imagine how they look like if you haven’t. Writing a book based on a computer game should be nothing special for him. He wrote books based on numerous movies, including Star Wars (as a ghostwriter for George Lucas), the Alien series, and many others. The computer game, by itself, was a major production: inspired by Steven Spielberg and produced by George Lucas’s company, LucasArts, it includes special effects by Industrial Light and Magic, dialogs by Orson Scott Card, and so forth.Īlan Dean Foster is a good writer. This book was very intriguing for me because it’s somewhat of a first: a science-fiction book based on a computer game.

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