Del Rey will publish the tie-in novel based on Electronic Arts’s Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars computer and videogame (currently available for the PC; the Xbox 360 version will be out on 10 May). The novel, by Keith R.A. DeCandido, will be published on 29 May, and is also scheduled to appear in the UK and Germany later this year.
In the novel, “the year is 2047 and the stakes could not be higher. Tiberium—a self-replicating alien substance that has infected the Earth—is spreading like a radioactive ice age. The Global Defense Initiative, a high-tech alliance of the world’s most advanced nations, is fighting to contain Tiberium, but Kane, the megalomaniacal leader of the Brotherhood of Nod has other plans for Earth. Kane’s secret society turned superpower is bent on using Tiberium to take control and transform humanity into his twisted vision of the future. In the midst of battles throughout the world, a third alien race emerges, and all-out war rages over Tiberium. The fate of the planet rests in the balance.”