We don't want to quote the entire Amazon.com description, so let's just say that Valentine's Exile by E.E. Knight is a novel about Space Draculas best read upon the toilet. But the novel's gaggle of vampire spacemen from beyond the moon aren't the only blood suckers connected with Valentine's Exile: the cover artist is also parasitically draining the Halo art team dry.

From Kotakuite Dylan C. (who was also responsible for this post's incredibly impenetrable subject wording):

On June 11th, a fan over at halo.bungie.org noticed a book in Barnes + Nobles (a sleazy vampire sci-fi novel to boot) with a cover picture that reminded him of something every Halo 2 player should recognize: a Battle Rifle. Long story short, someone contacted the author of the book, who contacted his publisher (I think) who has decided to change all future covers for fear of plagarism. It is very obvious that it was plagiarised, but it is good to see a fan community do something productive.

This is "something productive"? Granted, it is undeniably ripped wholesale from Halo... but, like, who cares? Even though I've played all the Halo games, I didn't even recognize it — I've never once seen the gun from that angle.

It's a fargin' generic looking sci-fi ray gun, man. Let the poor generic cover artist have it. Isn't shameless plagiarism what sci-fi is all about anyways? Florian Eckhardt

Valentine's Exile: A Novel of the Vampire Earth [Amazon]

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