The newly launched Aconyte Books says it’s publishing a new series of novels inspired by Marvel’s hit tabletop miniatures game Crisis Protocol, and a series based on the Assassin’s Creed video game series.
Written by multiple award-winning author and comics editor Stuart Moore, Target: Kree will be published in the US and Canada on July 6 2021 and on Sept. 16 in the UK. This first book in the trilogy will be available in trade paperback and ebook formats, with an audiobook version expected to follow shortly after. A variety of translated editions are being planned with Aconyte’s European publishing partners.
Marvel: Crisis Protocol is a tabletop hobby miniatures game set in the Marvel Universe. Players assemble, paint, and collect highly detailed miniatures representing iconic Marvel characters. Players choose characters from their collections to form their own Marvel inspired dream team, and then pit their chosen forces against each other on an interactive tabletop space.
At the end of 2019, Aconyte was announced as Marvel’s newest fiction partner for original prose novels, creating new adventures based around a roster of Marvel’s comic book characters including Legends of Asgard, Heroines, Untold, and Xavier’s Institute.
Ubisoft Deal To See Assassin’s Creed Novels Launching in June
Aconyte has also been previously named as Ubisoft’s go-to fiction partner for novels for adult readers for properties like Watch Dogs and Tom Clancy’s The Division, and the company is also launching the first of its Assassin’s Creed novels with the publication of The Ming Storm this June. The novel is the opening volume of an exciting trilogy set in 16th century China, featuring the young assassin Shao Jun. Written by Chinese author Yen Leisheng, the novel has already been published in China and France, with editions in several other languages planned.
This first book will be followed in early 2022 by a new trilogy of novels set in the time of Ubisoft’s latest smash hit game Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, which offers players the captivating experience of playing as a legendary Viking warrior leading their clan to glory in 9th century England. A third trilogy of novels in a wholly new setting is also in development.