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Halo: The Fall of Reach

Series: Halo
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Set in the twenty-sixth century, Halo: The Fall of Reach traces the origin of Spartan John-117, known as the Master Chief, a six-year-old boy recruited into a secret military programme aiming to quell colonist rebellions. As Dr Catherine Halsey develops this elite force, humanity faces a dire threat from the alien Covenant. This thrilling novel explores the early life of the legendary hero destined to defend humanity from annihilation in an interplanetary war.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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Fans of science fiction and military fantasy, especially those interested in deepening their understanding of the Halo video game universe, will find this novel compelling and immersive.

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The Covenant, forging ahead with its plan to wipe out humankind, has arrived on Reach, the last military fortress to defy the alien onslaught, where it comes face to face with the SPARTANs, a team of bioengineered warriors that will never surrender.

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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 are 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. 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.

Series: Halo

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781982111618

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 25 May 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Gallery

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 33.0mm

Width: 135.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 358g

Pages: 464

About the Author

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.

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