With a forthcoming RAGE comic book, fans now have another reason to be excited as Bethesda Softworks and Del Rey have announced that Del Rey Books will publish a novel based on the upcoming RAGE video game as well. The novel, also entitled “RAGE”, will be written by author and game writer Matt Costello and will release on August 30, 2011.
The novel delves even deeper into the video game world and its characters. The world was doomed and only some of the population could be saved. That was what the scientists were saying, at least. So the best and brightest were gathered and put into stasis deep beneath the surface of the Earth--buried so that man could live.
When Lt. Nick Raine emerges from his Ark, he finds the human race has not been wiped out. And people, as resilient as they are, are scraping together a new world from the rubble of the old. This was not what anyone in the Arks expected--a new society where might is right, mutants plague the Earth, and “friend” is a term for the person who hasn't stabbed you in the back.