As part of the 25th year celebration, Catalyst Game Labs is publishing Classic BattleTech: 25 Years of Art and Fiction. An over-sized, full-color deluxe book, it's filled with a huge retrospective of 25 years worth of art. Additionally, we've got something extra special planned. We've selected over a dozen "premier" illustrations that cover the gamut of style, subject matter, time period and artists. Authors are then generating in the neighborhood of a hundred thousand words of new, original fiction to mesh with those illustrations. All the seminal BattleTech novelists are involved: Thurston, Charrette, Milan, Coleman, Keith, Long, Pardoe, and Stackpole, as well as some new authors. A comprehensive universe timeline as well as detailed bibliography of all published material for Classic BattleTech by FASA/FanPro/WizKids/Catalyst rounds out this fantastic product.
Итак, на юбилей нас ждет здоровенная книжка с кучей арта, нового худлита - в том числе и от авторов, которые очень давно ничего не писали для БТ, таких как Тёрстон, Чэррет и Кейт, подробным таймлайном и детальной библиографией всех материалов выпущенных по БТ FASA, FanPro, WizKids и CGL.