I'm pretty into Halo and i recently read Halo: Contact Harvest and loved it, so i was wondering which one you escapistists think i would enjoy most. I can only afford one, so which one do you think I should get?
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The Graphic Novel, but only if you like comics.
Otherwise I second Fall of Reach, I only read it and The Flood but Fall was the better of the two.
Otherwise I second Fall of Reach, I only read it and The Flood but Fall was the better of the two.
That one was historically inaccurate in the canon, if you cross-reference with other books. It was good, though.Eldritch Warlord said:
Anyway, I loved Contact: Harvest, Fall of Reach, The Flood, First Strike and Ghosts of Onyx. (BTW, The Flood is the book version of the original game itself)
My favourite book to do with Halo that I have ever read is the game manual for Halo: CE.
Awwwww yeah. I read manuals.
Awwwww yeah. I read manuals.
Fall of Reach is the one you want to go with since chronologically its next in the Halo storyline after Contact Harvest and its just a great read. The best books in the series are done by Nylund.
Also the books in order:
Contact Harvest
Fall of Reach
The Flood
First Strike
Ghosts of Onyx
The Cole Protocol is more of a side story and takes place during the later events of Fall of Reach and is (well part of it) a covenant prequel to the first Halo game.
Also the books in order:
Contact Harvest
Fall of Reach
The Flood
First Strike
Ghosts of Onyx
The Cole Protocol is more of a side story and takes place during the later events of Fall of Reach and is (well part of it) a covenant prequel to the first Halo game.
Only a couple paragraphs in Fall of Reach. I think it's a good and justified retcon anyway. I always thought it was a rather foolish idea to have no Hunters or Elites encountered until 2552, that's 27 years of brutal conflict and one army basically making do without officers and light artillery.Emperor Inferno said:
It looks like they're altering canon so that Brutes and Drones have been seen throughout the war too.
Actually, Cole Protocol is set between Contact Harvest. and somewhere in the middle of Fall of Reach (a book which, from beginning to end, covers more than fifteen years). The events of Cole protocol start not long after the beginning of the war and end a few years before any actual events at Reach itself.militaryspartan said:
@ Eldritch Warlord, you're right. According to information from Contact: Harvest and First Strike, the jiralhanae (brutes) were assimilated into the Covenant not long before the Covenant discovered the existence of humans. The jiralhanae were so new to the Covenant that their status on the Covenant hierarchy had not been decided yet, so they just weren't used as military personnel yet. As far as the yan-me'e (drones/buggers) go, they were just mechanics until the Covenant starting using huragok (technicians) for that purpose. At that point, when the yan-me'e suddenly had no purpose, their various abilities were looked at and their purpose re-imagined into scouts and that sort of thing.