Marathon / Destination: Void
It would be fairly accurate to describe my years in High School and University as a balance between sleeping through class, writing code ( Apple II projects, MUSH code , and so on), and haunting used bookstores. As an example, for High School english classes I typically wrote computer games - for Dune , a thumper-placement/avoid the worm action game. For King Lear , a "choose your own adventure" game. I picked up a tattered, second-hand copy of Destination: Void as a teenager while on a Frank Herbert binge. It was only years later that I learned that there was a sequel (by Herbert and Bill Ransom ), The Jesus Incident . As a rather religion-averse person I had never picked it up and flipped through it - the name put me off. Flash forward to 2004. I'm a little bit obsessed with Halo - not playing the game, mind you, just the beautiful game world. See previous entries about Iain M. Banks - they cribbed massively from his writing. The Halo itself is an Orbital (mini-ringw...