Halo The Fall of Reach, Eric Nylund
Halo The Fall of Reach, Eric Nylund
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Halo: The Fall of Reach

Author: Eric Nylund

Series: Halo #1

Narrator: Todd McLaren

Unabridged: 11 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2019


Synopsis

The New York Times bestselling origin story of the Master Chief—part of the expanded universe based on the award-winning video game series Halo!

The twenty-sixth century. Humanity has expanded beyond Earth’s system to hundreds of planets that colonists now call home. But the United Earth Government and the United Nations Space Command is struggling to control this vast empire. After exhausting all strategies to keep seething colonial insurrections from exploding into a full-blown interplanetary civil war, the UNSC has one last hope. At the Office of Naval Intelligence, Dr. Catherine Halsey has been hard at work on a top-secret program that could bring an end to the conflict…and it starts with seventy-five children, among them a six-year-old boy named John. And Halsey could never guess that this child will eventually become the final hope against an even greater peril engulfing the galaxy—the inexorable confrontation with a theocratic military alliance of alien races known as the Covenant.

This is the electrifying origin story of Spartan John-117—the Master Chief—and of his legendary, unstoppable heroism in leading the resistance against humanity’s possible extinction.

About Eric Nylund

Eric Nylund is the author of many novels, including the New York Times bestselling works Halo: The Fall of Reach, Halo: First Strike, and Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, and the World Fantasy nominated Dry Water. As a writer for Microsoft Game Studios, Nylund helped develop such game franchises as Halo and Gears of War. He has also helped shape the intellectual property for some of the world’s best videogame developers, including Bioware and Epic Games, and also worked with Amazon’s game studios. Nylund lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife, award-winning science fiction/fantasy writer Syne Mitchell, and their son.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Master_chief on November 05, 2007

it describes my training and how i become famous and brave.......more

Goodreads review by Tena on May 09, 2014

Ha! A book about Halo?! ROFL. I was wrong. Expected this: "Grenade, headshot, headshot. Two grunts down. More grenades. 360 no scoped an Elite." etc. A book about mindlessly shooting things up. Got this: A book that doesn't focus on wars or engagements, but the thoughts and emotions of the Spartan's (......more

Goodreads review by Ben on September 01, 2018

Well, I’m doing it: I’m diving full on into the Halo universe. Games, novels, comics, web series, podcasts…I’m doing all of them, in the order that they were released. So, in other words, it was nice knowing ya’ll – I’ll see you in 20ish years. I played the original Halo trilogy years ago, and distin......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on April 01, 2022

If I were to just compare this book with the grand majority of MilSF titles out there, I'd probably rank it as one of the best for pure grit and against-all-odds heroism, with a solid background for Master Chief and all the plausible extra SF bits like bio-enhancement, super armor, AI assists, etc.......more

Goodreads review by Tom on February 03, 2009

I have played all of the Halo games and followed the story in the games and thoroughly enjoyed them. I was given this book several years ago and never got around to reading them, until I got my hands on the audio book version! This book was incredible. It was not predictable at all. It begins when M......more