Has anyone here read them?
Are they any good?

Ah I asked this the other day at another forum. In the manuel their is an excerpt as Im sure you know, wich was interesting.

FYI
Well I went looking for them and found you could still get them. I hope someone here has read them as they look cool.

I have the first one in the series. Not great, but worth reading if you like SMAC. If I happened to find the second book I would definitely buy it.

I also read the first book...it was ok. I want to know what happens, but haven't been able to get my hands on Dragon Sun (book#2, I believe.) Of course, it's a moot point, since obvioiusly the Hive will conquer all and rule the world.

As I remember it nothing at all was mentined about the Hive in the first book, they probably crashed their landing pod against the Pholus Ridge... :)

They are barely mentioned, in passing. Apparently, the Hive landed on a continent it had more or less to itself...so obviously they will expand, and then gobble up all the squabbling, lesser factions.

The books are fairly decent for game fiction. I ordered the whole set from Amazon.co.uk and read them over easter.

I shant say how it ends, but at least I found it surprising. :D

And Zak is still my hero. :)

Read them. Loved them. Each one I read forced me to eject the civ3 cd and play a few games of SMACx. Ely does a great job w/ the unexpected (re: Hive), and harsh realities of life on Chiron. I must say the image of Clinical Immortality made me nauseas.

I bought the last book a couple of days ago. IT HAS THE MOST AKWARD ENDING.....but Im not gona ruin it for u guys =)

Yeah, didn't like the ending (of the last book) either, to pessimistic about mankind. But I enjoyed reading the books.