Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crysis: Legion | 2011 | Peter Watts | Buy |
Crysis: Legion is a novelization of the video game Crysis 2, written by Peter Watts. Published in 2011, the book is set in a near-future Manhattan under alien invasion. The protagonist wears a nanosuit — advanced military technology that enhances strength, speed, and armor — and fights through the collapsing city.
Watts brought his hard science fiction instincts to the project. The book goes deeper into the science behind the nanosuit and the alien biology than the game does. It reads like a Watts novel that happens to be set in someone else’s universe: dense, dark, and interested in what the technology is actually doing to the person inside it. For readers who know Watts from Blindsight or the Rifters trilogy, this is a shorter, more action-oriented piece, but the voice is recognizable.