Reddit reviews Knee-Deep in the Dead (Doom, Book 1)

Try the book series of Doom, Knee-Deep in the Dead

Anyone else here read the 4-part Doom book series? One of my favorite book series of all times (although it takes the Hitchhiker's Guide/Ender's Game approach and gets increasingly insane with each sequel). One of the great travesties of my childhood was the fact that they ended the series on a cliffhanger. Still amazing books though.
Found it on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Knee-Deep-Dead-Doom-Book-1/dp/0671525557

Anyone ever read the book?

Brings back some good memories.

I have the answer!

There were novelizations of Doom! Doom Guy was a caring sonuvabitch who struck his superior after being told to kill civilians. On the way to face a court martial their ship is diverted to Mars where the rest of the team gets slaughtered.

But wait! Not his best friend somewhat almost lover who happens to be a woman and a sniper. Together they fight the demons, even putting down her real boyfriend who was now a zombie and thanks to some amazing jury rigging build a shuttle to get back to Earth. Oh also Demnios has been moved to orbit earth for the alien invasion.

Wait. ALIENS??

Yeah fucko, the demons were not demons at all! I mean they were fucking tacky as shit how could you think they were really from hell?

No what REALLY happened is they were all bioengineered by an alien race based on scouting reports taken a millienia ago as a sort of shock and awe campaign to conquer earth. Why? Religion!

Okay so there are all kinds of aliens in the galaxy and they have been divided into two factions who have warred for millions of years over slight disagreements about what the first Progenitor race were all about.

Also FTL travel doesn't exist so yeah at best you travel at the speed of light which is why the war has been going on so long and the evil invading aliens had bad Intel.

Oh also humans are the only mortal race around. Turns out even when aliens bodies get destroyed their spirits or whatever just have to hang around their body going slowly insane forever. So they try not to do any actual fighting. As long as their body is not damaged they won't age or get sick.

Also they evil aliens really fuck up and create a race of super evolving humanish beings who wipe them all out as a show of gratitude.

What does this have to do with fucking ANYTHING?

Well Doom Guy and his gal pal were heading to the alien home world thanks to the not so evil other faction to kick ass. But ass was already kicked. Then they get captured by the sorta-humans. By this point they've infiltrated a real human vessel and use its computer to copy their brains and run a super fast simulation of what happened on Demnios. But wait real Doom Guy and Arlene (fuck finally remembered her name) escape with the few humans left and head back to earth where her new Mormon boyfriend was waiting. Only not really because again space travel is long so he been dead for centuries.

FUCKING FINALLY THE POINT

But in the simiulation still being run by the sorta-humans Doom Guy and Arlene run through their previous adventures except not really. See since it's going off what they remember they can fool themselves into changing things a little. Like they gather a group of friends including her zombie exboyfriend, an eloquent and refined Cacodemon, and an imp even though I forget if it had a personality.

Oh also they FUCKING FINALLY hook up because shit they are the only two real beings they know about. And they are a happy family.

Oh also they somehow pull the sorta-human consciousness into the simulation and since it's running at superspeed and all the sort-humans are psychically linked they hyper evolve even faster than before and wink out of existence altogether possibly to become some sort of godlike entities that have beat the real Doom Guy to earth because when they get there it is super advanced but without signs of life. Also they never made any more books because HOLY FUCKING SHIT WHAT EVEN WAS THIS STORY?

So to answer your question Doom Guy is pretty chill, and a great guy to be around.

Also in case anyone thinks I'm clever enough to create such a yarn myself
http://www.amazon.com/Knee-Deep-Dead-Doom-Book-1/dp/0671525557

Maybe check the first two books in this series

http://www.amazon.com/Knee-Deep-Dead-Doom-Book-1/dp/0671525557

It's about as deep as you'd expect fanfiction to be.

there were 4 doom books.. none official tho

https://www.amazon.com/Knee-Deep-Dead-Doom-Book-1/dp/0671525557/ref=pd_sim_14_5?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0671525557&pd_rd_r=VSP8FPZY0HJVW510GS8G&pd_rd_w=obJGM&pd_rd_wg=QATcC&psc=1&refRID=VSP8FPZY0HJVW510GS8G

Pretty much all correct, but you should really read the official novels, the first 2 are awesome!

http://www.amazon.com/Knee-Deep-Dead-Doom-Book-1/dp/0671525557

I really enjoyed Daffyd ab Hugh's doom books. They are pretty old and maybe for a young adult audience but they are the best video game books I've read.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0671525557

There is a book about the game.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0671525557?pc_redir=1397581943&robot_redir=1

The Doom series!

The first two are pretty great and dovetail quite nicely with the games. I like the last two as well, but they get...rather odd.

http://www.amazon.com/Knee-Deep-Dead-Doom-Book-1/dp/0671525557

http://www.amazon.com/Knee-Deep-Dead-Doom-Book-1/dp/0671525557


This book series is pretty cool. Until it goes all batshit crazy in books 3 and 4.