Of Books and Men

Eric Trautmann, who popped up a couple of days ago with some interesting backstory info, has popped up again on the Marathon’s Story forum with some clarifications of his job. He’s part of the licensing team, so he interfaces with folks like Eric Nylund, who’s writing ‘The Fall of Reach’, due out in October, and makes sure that the details work. As Eric (T.) says:

I’m also a fanboy geek who HATES it when tie-in products don’t match the source material. Hence my annoyance about the timeline discrepancies between what goes into the book and what ends up on the website.

With zeal like this, the likelihood is good that the numbers will line up… as much as they’re supposed to, by the time it all gets out through the proper channels.