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It's a book by James Swallow.

A Deus Ex novel will be released next year to build excitement for Eidos Montreal's new game.

The book is called Deus Ex: The Icarus Effect and is written by British author James Swallow. The story follows "unlikely heroes" Anna Kelso and Ben Saxon, who will come "uncomfortably close to the truth" and write history with their choices.

Apparently these events and characters will overlap with the story of the new Deus Ex game.

Del Rey will publish the book.

The game, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, was unveiled around E3 last month. Eurogamer wrote a preview and interviewed lead designer Jean-François Dugas about the game.

Deus Ex: Human Revolution will be released in early 2011.

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Haloboy #1 2 years ago

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The pleasantly surprised effect.
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metalangel #2 2 years ago

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If this matches the quality of some of the in-game books (or indeed the Gears of War books) then it should be worth a read!
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Ninja_Tino #3 2 years ago

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Ahhh Icarus, like, too close to the sun and his wings melted? Wow, what a clever allusion for high-tech machinery. Never heard of that one before.
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Zapatero #4 2 years ago

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I read his WH40K book Flight of the Eisenstein last year. It was racy, fun and dark in the all the right places. Not the best book in the bloated Horus Heresy series and several notches below anything by the great M. Banks, of course, but true to the IP, which bodes well.
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Ninja_Tino #5 2 years ago

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Fine, I will! Not yet though; I'm busy.
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Stuz359 #6 2 years ago

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James Swallow? Hur hur hur...sorry.
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NimbusTLD #7 2 years ago

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I'd rather it be about "likely heroes" like Anna Navarre and Gunther Hermann. Now that, I would read!
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Jonny5Alive7 #8 2 years ago

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I miss JC Denton.
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Hunam #9 2 years ago

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Why? Denton's a Lunatic.
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m0thr4 #10 2 years ago

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Still can't imagine this being better than the original. In fact, I'd settle for the original, remade for consoles with nice graphics.
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Deckard1 #11 2 years ago

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So you'd rather have a game you played before with nicer graphics, than a whole new experience that is actually starting to look really promising?

So your the guy hollywoods making all the remakes for.
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chiefian #12 2 years ago

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He's quite a good author in the w40k universe. I'm quite hopeful this will be a nice read.
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Spunkweazle #13 2 years ago

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I want a remake of the first one and a new one.
Sort of like the Orange Box, but not quite so orangy
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metalangel #14 2 years ago

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@Deckard1: Ironic you should say that, given all the canned 'takedown' animations in the new game that are very much what modern Hollywood thinks people want in action movies these days.
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darkmorgado #15 2 years ago

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James Swallow is a pretty good writer, tbh. He's written some of the best Warhammer 40k novels.

He does a good action scene just as well as more character-driven stuff. It's hard to give a warhammer Space Marine a personality beyond "ARGH! KILL IT FOR THE EMPEROR!" but he actually manages it.
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