No Man’s Sky Novel

[Musicman]

Just a thought: Have the devs looked into commissioning a No Man’s Sky Novel? It would be amazing, as there are many stories that can be written based on this game.

The ideas for a novel are flowing like the sentinel mining police.

[Mr. Bufferlow]

Who knows since they keep very tight lipped about everything. Since they seem to still be adding to the game, they might have decided to hold off until they are sure where the existing lore should end up. (if anywhere)

The "story/lore" folks can get almost as upset as the "this is not the game promised" folks when the Developer starts breaking canon.

I still hold out hope for some final mission update where we somehow get at least a partial resolution of the Atlas failing situation. It has always bugged me that we go through the current story only to get the "it is broken. Oh well, never mind, go on about your business- nothing to see here."

Even a failed attempt at fixing things would be more interesting than where we ended up.

[Musicman]

I’ve had the game since release. Haven’t played it for a couple of years, and now I’m hooked and going through it. The story is interesting but I’m doing my own way and moving along at a decent pace.

I’ve been inspired to start writing myself, have a good story in mind. Going through Star Wars Legends novels and that has been the inspiration.

There is potential there with this. Haven’t read the Mass Effect Novels but that’s on the list.

[UncreativelyNamed]

This makes me wonder if there's No Man's Sky fanfiction...

(I'm almost afraid to look, frankly, knowing the, er, nature of most fanfic. LOL)

[Musicman]

Originally posted by UncreativelyNamed:

This makes me wonder if there's No Man's Sky fanfiction...

(I'm almost afraid to look, frankly, knowing the, er, nature of most fanfic. LOL)

I did a simple Bing search, there is that unofficial journey guide called Limitless Sky but that's it.

[UncreativelyNamed]

Originally posted by Musicman:

Originally posted by UncreativelyNamed:

This makes me wonder if there's No Man's Sky fanfiction...

(I'm almost afraid to look, frankly, knowing the, er, nature of most fanfic. LOL)

I did a simple Bing search, there is that unofficial journey guide called Limitless Sky but that's it.

Yes, but you didn't look on Archive of Our Own. That's where the action is. ;) That and maybe Fanfiction.net.

I went to AO3 because of course I did. There are 66 stories there, which isn't a lot as these things go, and I didn't look through all of them, but the subject matter of some of them was...as expected. LOL I will have to read some of them out of morbid curiosity because I'm like that.

[Dirak2012]

Originally posted by Mr. Bufferlow:

Who knows since they keep very tight lipped about everything. Since they seem to still be adding to the game, they might have decided to hold off until they are sure where the existing lore should end up. (if anywhere)

The "story/lore" folks can get almost as upset as the "this is not the game promised" folks when the Developer starts breaking canon.

I still hold out hope for some final mission update where we somehow get at least a partial resolution of the Atlas failing situation. It has always bugged me that we go through the current story only to get the "it is broken. Oh well, never mind, go on about your business- nothing to see here."

Even a failed attempt at fixing things would be more interesting than where we ended up.

Well, you are basically a videogame character trapped inside a game console, which is inside a house about to be destroyed by a landslide.

It would be nice that the videogame character could save the house but that wasn't meant to be.

[Creative Guy1]

Write your own novel using chatGPT4 and feed it prompts based on your NMS explorations?

[Musicman]

Originally posted by Creative Guy1:

Write your own novel using chatGPT4 and feed it prompts based on your NMS explorations?

I did that for the original idea I had for a novel (not NMS), and ended up with a trilogy.

I don’t think a lone traveler story would be appropriate, as it is a galaxy, other travelers would have to be there as well.

It is challenging, but if you add the atlas story, a galaxy, and main a side quest, could be good.

[Masque]

Written by someone like Charles Stross, Neil Stephenson, Tad Williams, Greg Bear, or Dan Simmons, I'd read it. It has to be someone of high quality, though.

None of the recent Hugo winners, for sure.

[Musicman]

Originally posted by Masque:

Written by someone like Charles Stross, Neil Stephenson, Tad Williams, Greg Bear, or Dan Simmons, I'd read it. It has to be someone of high quality, though.

None of the recent Hugo winners, for sure.

I've been digging James Luceno and Drew Karphyshyn.