Tor Books and Visceral Games today announced that the Dead Space franchise is expanding into books with Dead Space: Martyr. This seems to gel with the marketing strategy established by Electronic Arts (which owns developer Visceral Games) where they’ve pushed other game properties like Dante’s Inferno, Mass Effect and Dragon Age onto multiple mediums.
“One of the most compelling storytelling aspects of Dead Space has been the Church of Unitology: its origins, power, and role in Dead Space,” says Tor editor, Eric Raab. “Writer B.K. Evenson gets into the terrifying aspects of mob mentality like no other writer today. This isn t only a great story within the Dead Space universe; it s a great novel on its own.”
Dead Space: Martyr will deal with the backstory behind the games, where geophysicist Michael Altman finds an alien artifact that causes strange visions deep within the Chicxulub crater. B. K. Evenson, the award-winning author of Last Day, will write the book, which will release in July 2010.
