For starters I am not here to get annoyed at halo books or story segments. So please no Travis bashing this is not a thread for it. Even though her books are included in this.
What happened to giving a Month, day, and time in the Halo Book. I have noticed after Contact Harvest. Giving that information started to get a little sketchy. I mean, sure giving the Month and year was not that important and all, the story could still be told the same way, but I always felt that a day and time helped show how time flowed in the halo books.
And to add to my view I understood the Events of The Fall of Reach and First Stike better after I looked at how the days and months changed.
But in recent books. Kilo-5 ones most prominent. We are only given a month at best, I have nothing against the book(please no bashing this is a convo about dated books). Just when reading Grasslands and The Thursday War. I struggle to follow it a little bit. I like to know how much time passes in each chapter. As we jump around a lot in those books. Even a day mentioned would of helped me understand.
I am just curious if dated books will come back. As I kinda miss them
I liked getting the extra time info as well, but I can see writer’s not including it anymore to give them more leeway in the story lines.
A common enough complaint with Reach was how the dates didn’t match up with the novels and it lead to retcons and rewrites. By giving a general sense of time, I bet that 343 and Travis are hoping to avoid this kind of headache in the future.
I’m guessing it caused the author to think about when points in their stories took place in relation to each other and outside Nylund and Dietz, no one really cared to think that carefully about it. Shame. I rather fell in love with Halo because of the attention to detail the fiction had…
> I’m guessing it caused the author to think about when points in their stories took place in relation to each other and outside Nylund and Dietz, no one really cared to think that carefully about it. Shame. I rather fell in love with Halo because of the attention to detail the fiction had…
Oohh oohh that pulls up a valid point.
All the attention to detail helped map out stuff better.
> Shame. I rather fell in love with Halo because of the attention to detail the fiction had…
Yes because the series is now devoid of detail now that some of the books don’t have dates… Never mind the expansion of the lore across 100 billion years or such, no it’s the TIMESTAMPS that were the real soul of Halo!
> > Shame. I rather fell in love with Halo because of the attention to detail the fiction had…
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> Yes because the series is now devoid of detail now that some of the books don’t have dates… Never mind the expansion of the lore across 100 billion years or such, no it’s the TIMESTAMPS that were the real soul of Halo!
They did help a lot though. Sure I love all that detail I never said anything bad against it.
I only brought it up as the timestamps only started to disappear or started to get more vague. I didnt intend to start a argument on what is more important or not.
It just personally stood out to me more as I work on a canon order. Some of you may have read or looked at.
Plus I really dont think timestamps would of worked in the Forerunner saga anyway. Only exception in my own personal opinion.