I just recently learned there’s more to Halo than just the games. But I feel overwhelmed by all this information, do you guys have any suggestions on were to start. Thanks (I already have Escalations on the list)
You’ve got a lot of books to catch up on and you can pretty much start whereever, but I suppose going by book release date may be easier than trying to go by a strict timeline since the books tend to jump around the years and overlap. Save the Forerunner novels for last since they are pretty dense. They aren’t aren’t bad, but if you haven’t read a lot of sci-fi it can be a slog.
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> You’ve got a lot of books to catch up on and you can pretty much start whereever, but I suppose going by book release date may be easier than trying to go by a strict timeline since the books tend to jump around the years and overlap. Save the Forerunner novels for last since they are pretty dense. They aren’t aren’t bad, but if you haven’t read a lot of sci-fi it can be a slog.
Should I even read Halo: The Flood and The Fall of Reach? Arn’t those basically Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo: Reach.
The Flood branches off from Chief in some parts and I think The Flood is still a decent read. The Fall of Reach is not like the game of Reach at all and has a lot of origin stuff about the Spartans.
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> The Flood branches off from Chief in some parts and I think The Flood is still a decent read. The Fall of Reach is not like the game of Reach at all and has a lot of origin stuff about the Spartans.
Alright and Thanks for the help
i have to admit the forerunner trilogy was really really good and also very pertinent going forward. but everything else i would just catch up on on the wiki
The Forerunner Saga is great, but it’s the least derivative series in the Halo books. It’s steps into unfamiliar territory and exposes what life was like for the Forerunners and ancient humans over 100,000 years ago. There isn’t so much action and there’s a lot of science fantasy elements as opposed to science fiction. You’ll be reading a lot about imprinted personalities, genetic commands imposed on living things, and in turning them into AIs. There’s also a lot of cool lovecraftian stuff with the Flood.
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> The Forerunner Saga is great, but it’s the least derivative series in the Halo books. It’s steps into unfamiliar territory and exposes what life was like for the Forerunners and ancient humans over 100,000 years ago. There isn’t so much action and there’s a lot of science fantasy elements as opposed to science fiction. You’ll be reading a lot about imprinted personalities, genetic commands imposed on living things, and in turning them into AIs. There’s also a lot of cool lovecraftian stuff with the Flood.
Lovecraftian, what is that?
Halowikia is the easiest way of learning the halo lore
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> > The Forerunner Saga is great, but it’s the least derivative series in the Halo books. It’s steps into unfamiliar territory and exposes what life was like for the Forerunners and ancient humans over 100,000 years ago. There isn’t so much action and there’s a lot of science fantasy elements as opposed to science fiction. You’ll be reading a lot about imprinted personalities, genetic commands imposed on living things, and in turning them into AIs. There’s also a lot of cool lovecraftian stuff with the Flood.
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> Lovecraftian, what is that?
Stories reminiscent of H.P. Lovecraft’s style. Without revealing too much, H.P. Lovecraft is famous for writing stories about horrific monsters with origins and motives that are incomprehensible to humans.
I’d start with 1st grade English. It’s the place where you learn to spell the word “where”.
Start with the fall of reach.
It was released before halo ce and it’s the basis and ideal starting point of the lore.
The others are mostly sequels, some follow a different narration but you still need to read the fall of reach to know the characters.
Leave the forerunner saga last, as it’s so distant in time (and usually also space) and for writing style from all the rest of the lore to be for the 90% irrelevant, but when you have read everything else, then you see how it ties up everything.
Forget Kilo-V for the moment…
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> I’d start with 1st grade English. It’s the place where you learn to spell the word “where”.
Sorry about that, I made a mistake.
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> Start with the fall of reach.
> It was released before halo ce and it’s the basis and ideal starting point of the lore.
> The others are mostly sequels, some follow a different narration but you still need to read the fall of reach to know the characters.
> Leave the forerunner saga last, as it’s so distant in time (and usually also space) and for writing style from all the rest of the lore to be for the 90% irrelevant, but when you have read everything else, then you see how it ties up everything.
> Forget Kilo-V for the moment…
What’s wrong with Kilo-V? Like is it not written well, or just not interesting at this moment of time.
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> > Start with the fall of reach.
> > It was released before halo ce and it’s the basis and ideal starting point of the lore.
> > The others are mostly sequels, some follow a different narration but you still need to read the fall of reach to know the characters.
> > Leave the forerunner saga last, as it’s so distant in time (and usually also space) and for writing style from all the rest of the lore to be for the 90% irrelevant, but when you have read everything else, then you see how it ties up everything.
> > Forget Kilo-V for the moment…
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> What’s wrong with Kilo-V? Like is it not written well, or just not interesting at this moment of time.
It’s because it is very controversial, the author tried to show us everything from another perspective, the perspective of her characters, and it makes all the good previous character look bad and the bad look good. This is because these new characters are told lies, so if the reader knows those are lies because he has read the other books ok, if he doesn’t he can get a wrong idea of the halo universe and it’s main characters. There are also some inconsistencies.
Here on waypoint there is lot’s of debate on that trilogy, most don’t like what the author did, for different reasons.