TIMOTHY ZAHN HEADING BACK TO THE STARS?

In a recent statement Blizzard is partnering up with Random House LLC to release some exciting novels for 2016. One of the planed books will be an original StarCraft novel written by Timothy Zahn. Blizzard didn't provide many details regarding the upcoming StarCraft novel. The only tidbit that was provided was that explore the "aftermath" of the StarCraft storyline.

Starcraft franchise is a science fiction strategy based military game published by Blizzard on the PC platform. The first game was released in 1998, an expansion pack and two add-on followed by a sequel in 2010: StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty. The storyline has been adapted for a series of novels.

Timothy Zahn is well known for the being the author of the Star Wars Thrawn Trilogy. The Trawn trilogy also known as the Heir to the Empire. The novels were set five years in the future after Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi in the expanded universe. The trilogy was followed by a two book series: The Hand of Thrawn.