# Empires of Eve: A History of the Great Empires of Eve Online

EVE Online has fascinated me from the sidelines. I was able to endure about 20 minutes of it before I grew bored, but I have followed the game from afar ever since. The stories that come out of EVE are unlike anything else in gaming (and perhaps even human history). It’s a fascinating and under-covered subject.

I struggle with this book, though. It’s a bit clumsily written, but my bigger issue is that the book’s ambition (covering the great wars of EVE Online for the first 6 years of the game’s existence) is so vast that there is little room left for personalities. Great alliances rise up and bash one another, but there is little drama to it as the factions tend to be faceless and the reasons for wars are typically “because this corporation needed to declare war on someone and this was the best target.”

I would have loved a take that was less comprehensive and more focused on smaller stories and individuals. However, this book and the story within are still unlike any other and has offered me the best insight yet on what makes EVE so different than other online worlds.