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Prophet Without Honour, Anarchy Online Book One
Anarchy Online Book One
332 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 2001
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May 13, 2014
The introduction to the world of Anarchy Online, an excelent book which made me instant fan of Ragnar Tornquist and all of his work in other Videogames, shame it didn't get a second part, for anyone who didn't play the game it will still be good but without an end, since the game story starts at the end of the book and evolved during the game existence thru ingame events and short stories, etc.. Roleplaying and immersion like never seen in any other game, shame it's now old and mostly abandoned, but it came close to being the integrated storyline experience and roleplay that others tried and failed, this was the best interaction with multimedia and videogames yet to date, and this book is just a little part of it and by itself is an awesome book and universe.
April 28, 2026
25 years ago, when the Virtual and Physical world was quite different, I spent many late nights roleplaying as a Omni-Tek bureaucrat in and around Omni-1. We had a guild/corporation called "Red Tape" and primarily hung out in bars chatting
This might sound a bit silly these days, but the online world was a seperate "third place" that existed as its own thing. The modern internet with all its brain-rotting failures had not yet been invented.
Anarchy Online was my second taste of this new concept called a MMO. My first being Ultima Online a few years prior. Unlike UO, this was in beautiful 3D and had a very cool sci-fi setting.
Walking around and being immersed in this world was quite enchanting back in 2001.
If only I had known about this book! It was quite interesting to go back and read the backstory of this world we all wanted to spend so much time in.
That said, it being titled "Book One" and there not being anymore books will probably tell you what to expect. It spends almost all its pages introducing characters and places and then it just ends.
The characters and dialogue is rudementary and it will probably be extremly uninteresting without having an attachement to the game its based on.
Anyway, for me it was a fun trip down memory lane.
This might sound a bit silly these days, but the online world was a seperate "third place" that existed as its own thing. The modern internet with all its brain-rotting failures had not yet been invented.
Anarchy Online was my second taste of this new concept called a MMO. My first being Ultima Online a few years prior. Unlike UO, this was in beautiful 3D and had a very cool sci-fi setting.
Walking around and being immersed in this world was quite enchanting back in 2001.
If only I had known about this book! It was quite interesting to go back and read the backstory of this world we all wanted to spend so much time in.
That said, it being titled "Book One" and there not being anymore books will probably tell you what to expect. It spends almost all its pages introducing characters and places and then it just ends.
The characters and dialogue is rudementary and it will probably be extremly uninteresting without having an attachement to the game its based on.
Anyway, for me it was a fun trip down memory lane.
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