Looking for a way to get more information about the Halo lore is there anyone out there with some recommendations
I like all the books but if you don’t want to read all of them my top choices would be:
Fall of Reach
First Strike
Ghosts of Onyx
The Forerunner Trilogy (Cryptum, Primordium, and Silentium) (slow reads but they’re very informative lore wise)
Halo mythos is a time line of every major event up to the release of HW2.
Yeah like someone said the forerunner trilogy is good but I only found the first 2 to be long reads while the last was a good pace.Eric nylunds trilogy is the pinnacle of halo writing and entertainment imo.And you have a few 343 era books like last light,envoy,hunters in the dark,and legacy of onyx which are pretty good as well
The Ferret duology (I don’t know if legacy of onyx does anything particular) is a really fun read but you do need to read the original trilogy of books by Eric Nylund and at least Halo: Glasslands to get the exact same level of enjoyment that I got out of the series. The Forerunner Trilogy is good but its a really dense read, the 3 books feel more like science fiction fantasy (because they couldn’t be any other way without getting confusing) but if you wanted to appreciate Halo 4 more its definitely worth it and the karen Traviss series Kilo-5 is personally enjoyable BUT only if you don’t hold Halsey to godhood like a portion of fans.
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> The Ferret duology (I don’t know if legacy of onyx does anything particular) is a really fun read but you do need to read the original trilogy of books by Eric Nylund and at least Halo: Glasslands to get the exact same level of enjoyment that I got out of the series. The Forerunner Trilogy is good but its a really dense read, the 3 books feel more like science fiction fantasy (because they couldn’t be any other way without getting confusing) but if you wanted to appreciate Halo 4 more its definitely worth it and the karen Traviss series Kilo-5 is personally enjoyable BUT only if you don’t hold Halsey to godhood like a portion of fans.
You found all the Halsey bashing enjoyable? She definitely isn’t a saint,but they compared her to -Yoink!- and mengele in those books As a jew I was kind of flabbergasted by the comparison.And I’ve heard traviss has done similar unorthodox additions to other game novels in the past like gears and star wars
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> > The Ferret duology (I don’t know if legacy of onyx does anything particular) is a really fun read but you do need to read the original trilogy of books by Eric Nylund and at least Halo: Glasslands to get the exact same level of enjoyment that I got out of the series. The Forerunner Trilogy is good but its a really dense read, the 3 books feel more like science fiction fantasy (because they couldn’t be any other way without getting confusing) but if you wanted to appreciate Halo 4 more its definitely worth it and the karen Traviss series Kilo-5 is personally enjoyable BUT only if you don’t hold Halsey to godhood like a portion of fans.
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> You found all the Halsey bashing enjoyable? She definitely isn’t a saint,but they compared her to -Yoink!- and mengele in those books As a jew I was kind of flabbergasted by the comparison.And I’ve heard traviss has done similar unorthodox additions to other game novels in the past like gears and star wars
So this is my thing, I study Sociolinguistics and Geopolitics. Its my job to study human response and what karen traviss wrote is completely in line with what humans do. They take an incident at face value that is fundamentally immoral, take it out of context and proceed to apply their own personal prejudices and own moral code to the incident without taking into account any of the context of the time (I’ve seen Saddam Hussain compared to -Yoink!- its a normal thing, not accurate whatsoever but normal). Did it irritate me? To an extent and Mortal Dictata does over do it but I love the series because its characters are so human, when humans stop being irrational and start criticising problems after taking into account this is a grey life then I’ll probably have a problem with its portrayal but that hasn’t happened yet.
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> > > The Ferret duology (I don’t know if legacy of onyx does anything particular) is a really fun read but you do need to read the original trilogy of books by Eric Nylund and at least Halo: Glasslands to get the exact same level of enjoyment that I got out of the series. The Forerunner Trilogy is good but its a really dense read, the 3 books feel more like science fiction fantasy (because they couldn’t be any other way without getting confusing) but if you wanted to appreciate Halo 4 more its definitely worth it and the karen Traviss series Kilo-5 is personally enjoyable BUT only if you don’t hold Halsey to godhood like a portion of fans.
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> > You found all the Halsey bashing enjoyable? She definitely isn’t a saint,but they compared her to -Yoink!- and mengele in those books As a jew I was kind of flabbergasted by the comparison.And I’ve heard traviss has done similar unorthodox additions to other game novels in the past like gears and star wars
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> So this is my thing, I study Sociolinguistics and Geopolitics. Its my job to study human response and what karen traviss wrote is completely in line with what humans do. They take an incident at face value that is fundamentally immoral, take it out of context and proceed to apply their own personal prejudices and own moral code to the incident without taking into account any of the context of the time (I’ve seen Saddam Hussain compared to -Yoink!- its a normal thing, not accurate whatsoever but normal). Did it irritate me? To an extent and Mortal Dictata does over do it but I love the series because its characters are so human, when humans stop being irrational and start criticising problems after taking into account this is a grey life then I’ll probably have a problem with its portrayal but that hasn’t happened yet.
If previous novels did what she did then I would agree,but it’s just so out of nowhere and so blatant that’s it’s jarring a lot of the time
Halo: Fall of Reach (Amazing!!!)
Halo: Ghosts of Onyx (Amazing!!!)
The Forerunner Trilogy, Cryptum (Good), Primordial (not that good though), and Silentium (Excellent!)
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> Looking for a way to get more information about the Halo lore is there anyone out there with some recommendations
Really depends which parts of the lore you’re after, because there’s so much in there. For me, when I started reading the books, it was all about getting the whole story of the Human-Covenant war, so I read chronologically (in the Halo universe) starting with Contact Harvest then going through the Eric Nylund series. After that I read anything with Spartan-IIs in the lead, then I chose by author once I’d found the ones I like.
After that, because I’m a fanboy, I just read them to read through the stories. Some books I found better than others. I haven’t managed to want to finish The Flood yet, and I haven’t even started the Forerunner trilogy because it just doesn’t interest me as much.
I highly recommend the short story collections, and my personal favourite authors are Nylund, Denning, and Gay. Amped that Denning is doing the new book on the Chief. That -Yoink- will be lit.
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> > > > The Ferret duology (I don’t know if legacy of onyx does anything particular) is a really fun read but you do need to read the original trilogy of books by Eric Nylund and at least Halo: Glasslands to get the exact same level of enjoyment that I got out of the series. The Forerunner Trilogy is good but its a really dense read, the 3 books feel more like science fiction fantasy (because they couldn’t be any other way without getting confusing) but if you wanted to appreciate Halo 4 more its definitely worth it and the karen Traviss series Kilo-5 is personally enjoyable BUT only if you don’t hold Halsey to godhood like a portion of fans.
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> > > You found all the Halsey bashing enjoyable? She definitely isn’t a saint,but they compared her to -Yoink!- and mengele in those books As a jew I was kind of flabbergasted by the comparison.And I’ve heard traviss has done similar unorthodox additions to other game novels in the past like gears and star wars
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> > So this is my thing, I study Sociolinguistics and Geopolitics. Its my job to study human response and what karen traviss wrote is completely in line with what humans do. They take an incident at face value that is fundamentally immoral, take it out of context and proceed to apply their own personal prejudices and own moral code to the incident without taking into account any of the context of the time (I’ve seen Saddam Hussain compared to -Yoink!- its a normal thing, not accurate whatsoever but normal). Did it irritate me? To an extent and Mortal Dictata does over do it but I love the series because its characters are so human, when humans stop being irrational and start criticising problems after taking into account this is a grey life then I’ll probably have a problem with its portrayal but that hasn’t happened yet.
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> If previous novels did what she did then I would agree,but it’s just so out of nowhere and so blatant that’s it’s jarring a lot of the time
I can get that but I disagree with that logic firstly to avoid a conversation point because it hasn’t been done before violates the very principles of writing and secondly, no other novel before it has that chance, Eric Nylund’s writings deal with characters who are already apart of that grey world, Mendez was fighting the insurrection and most certainly saw and committed some of the worst in the name of humanity so this is no greater leap to him, Halsey treats the world as statistics rather than people and the Spartans know nothing else. The crew of the Port Stanley are different, her ODSTs had never fought human insurrection so they haven’t had to do anything morally questionable in the name of humanity, Naomi’s father is a civilian who’s daughter was taken away by the government which is not an aspect that was ever going to get the chance for exploration until now. If a universe should sacrifice portraying real human beings and real human sociological tendencies because its never done it before then I want nothing to do with it for being unable and unwilling to write real people. The human condition is one of the very tenants of Science Fiction and to ignore it is to basically write fantasy.
Broken Circle’s a good one if you want specifically older Covenant lore, particularly regarding the San’Shyuum and Sangheili.
Reinforcing what others have said, if this is your first foray into the extended universe, you really ought to start with the Nylund trilogy (Fall of Reach, First Strike, Ghosts of Onyx). It’s a rite of passage. You’ll be hooked.
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Contact Harvest: How the Hunan-Covenant war started
Cole Protocol
Halo: Evolutions: Several short stories.
I am starting to read the original books. But I am going to go through all books. I want to know everything! lol.