StarCraft: Shadow of the Xel'Naga

Blizzard Legends

By: Gabriel Mesta

Narrated by: Neil Kaplan

Far in the future, 60,000 light-years from Earth, a loose confederacy of Terran exiles are locked in battle with the enigmatic Protoss and the ruthless Zerg Swarm. Each species struggles to ensure its own survival among the stars in a war that will herald the beginning of mankind's greatest chapter - or foretell its violent, bloody end.

Bhekar Ro: a bleak, backwater world on the fringe of the Terran Dominion, where every day is a struggle to survive for its handful of human colonists. It is a veritable wasteland - one speck of dust among many in the vast, dark sea of space. But when the most violent storm in recent memory unearths an unfathomable alien artifact, Bhekar Ro becomes the greatest prize in the Terran Sector - the Holy Grail of the Zerg, the Protoss, and Humanity alike - as forces from the three great powers converge to claim the lost secrets of the most powerful species the universe has ever known.

An original tale of space warfare novels set in the world of the best-selling computer game!

©2001 Blizzard Entertainment (P)2020 Blizzard Entertainment

good book good reader

Neil Kaplan another amazing performance story was entertaining overall 8 out of 10 only issue was the ending kind of fell flat.

start slow and picks up

this story takes place between Starcraft and brood War. does a very good job of portraying the three sided conflict. the events at the end of the story are mentioned in other Starcraft books.

the story starts rather slowly and picks up quickly. before you reach the halfway point of the book it's like a runaway train and doesn't let up until the very end.

Neil carried the book

the story might as well have been written by a late teen for all its nuances...
it brings little to the SC universe and leaves more questions than it answers...

had it not been for Neil I might not have finished it...

Amazing work!!

I really liked how he put different inflections on the different parts of the story to let you know where in the story you are! just feel lucky to hear these amazing stories, miss the old Blizzard.

great series!

love this series, we need more starcraft books, cant wait to listen to the next one