Vor(TM) : Into the Maelstrom

Rating:
Summary: Good opener for Vor: The Maelstrom, but good sci-fi too!
Review: I enjoyed this book. As an owner and collector of the Vor: The Maelstrom game, it enhanced my gaming experience. As an avid reader of science fiction, however, it also seemed to stand on its own. Having a few concurrently developing plotlines showed good reflection of how the world might react in the Vor setting.

Even though FASA is now defunct, I'd recommend this as a good read anyway....

Rating:
Summary: Good opener for Vor: The Maelstrom, but good sci-fi too!
Review: I enjoyed this book. As an owner and collector of the Vor: The Maelstrom game, it enhanced my gaming experience. As an avid reader of science fiction, however, it also seemed to stand on its own. Having a few concurrently developing plotlines showed good reflection of how the world might react in the Vor setting.

Even though FASA is now defunct, I'd recommend this as a good read anyway....

Rating:
Summary: A better WWIII novel than a game-based novel series lead-in
Review: Since this was supposed to be the background for the FASA board game, I expected that when the Earth gets drawn into the Maelstrom, everyone would suddenly be at war with these alien horrors that immediately showed up; at least that was the impression I got from FASA's web site on the game. Instead it read like a distant-future version of World War Three with some occasional alien weirdness thrown in.