A great read. We found no such entries for this book title. Pursued by the Covenant, the Spartans retrieve the shard and collapse the passage behind them, which saves them from the pursuing Covenant forces, but also traps them deep under the surface of Reach.[8]. First Strike is one of the many books set in the Halo Universe to fill in the gaps of story between the trilogy of games. This is a great book to read because the plot is interesting, the conflict is simplisti. In the next few weeks, the Covenant will find Earth and Halo Installation 05. 505 words, approx. [7] There they meet Dr. Halsey who, with help of some of the surviving Spartans, uncovers a strange crystalline shard in a cavern built by the ancient Forerunners. Oddly, the huge ship has almost no warrior-caste on board, and with the help of Cortana's hacking abilities they capture the ship. [15] On board the Ascendant Justice, Whitcomb tricks the Covenant fleet into following the ship closer to the Unyielding Hierophant; when the station explodes the entire Covenant armada is destroyed or damaged.

Also includes sites with a short overview, synopsis, book report, or summary of Eric Nylund’s Halo First Strike. The book never veers from intence combat, like all Halo novels, "Grace hit the floor and rolled away. Master chief always seems to live even in the face of death.

I wasn’t really as invested as I felt I should be, and I think some of that comes from the escalation that happens. [20] About.com's Eric Qualls stated that First Strike and the other Halo novels "make you appreciate Halo and Halo 2 a hundred times more", and strongly recommended that fans of the game pick up the novel.

The way that Eric Nylund structures “First Strike” is pretty interesting – it serves as both a direct follow-up to the events of the first “Halo” game, as well as being what’s ostensibly Part 2 of a single broader narrative that Nylund started in his first novel, “The Fall of Reach, which was set BEFORE the events of the first game. For many fans of the Halo video games, that time period in-between the first two Halo games was always one of the franchise's greatest mysteries – Sgt. Be the first to ask a question about Halo. Gambit, Page 265, Anton, Blue-Four, had John worried. Halo: First Strike is a military science fiction novel by Eric Nylund, based on the Halo series of video games.The book was released in December 2003 and is the third Halo novel; Nylund's second contribution to the series.
(228) The novel also is very good about making sure to imerse the reader in the depth and technology of the Halo universe, "There-a jump to the Lambda Serpentis system to gather tritium gas for their reactors. Halo: First Strike describes another brilliant adventure lead by the franchises’ main protagonist, the Master Chief.

[18], Upon release, First Strike was a critical and commercial success, being the first Halo novel to make The New York Times bestsellers list. Long Journey Of The Company. [15] On board the Ascendant Justice, Whitcomb tricks the Covenant fleet into following the ship closer to the Unyielding Hierophant; when the station explodes the entire Covenant armada is destroyed or damaged. Eric Nylund is back to provide a thrilling end to the trilogy! But victory has come at … 7 key chapters of Halo First Strike by Eric Nylund. This is a great book if you are a fan of the Halo Universe. But also they add Spartans to the blue team and a surprise. After the destruction of Halo, Master chief has to evade covenant searches in the debris field of the halo ring. I listened to this as an audiobook, and it was decent enough. Griffin wrote a sci-fi" and that, for me, is a very good thing.

"[4] To write a better novel than The Fall of Reach, Nylund read military combat manuals and biographies of soldiers, he also tried to improve where fans had criticized the first Halo book.[3]. I remember I really enjoyed that other Spartans were found and that they had distinct personalities (at least Kelly, Fred, and Linda anyway), and the action scenes were quick-paced and realistic (they actually run out of ammo quite a bit, unlike in The Flood where MC kills thousands of those creatures and never runs out. The Master Chief sends a team of Spartans to the surface of Reach to protect the MAC's planet-based power generators. [16] Master Chief and the surviving Spartans take the partially repaired Gettysburg, which has been equipped with Ascendant Justice's slipspace drive, back to Earth with Sgt.

Browse books: Recent| popular| #| a| b| c| d| e| f| g| h| i| j| k| l| m| n| o| p| q| r| s| t| u| v| w| x| y| z|. With the knowledge that the Covenant are en route to Earth, the Master Chief and his fellow Spartans decide to disrupt the invasion force at their rendezvous point. First Strike takes place in the 26th century, where humanity, under the governance of the United Nations Space Command (UNSC), has been fighting a losing war against a religious collective of alien races known as the Covenant.
In this one Halo has been destroyed and the Master Chief is searching for survivors. This is a great example of Military Science Fiction and I recommend it to fans of Halo and of Eric Nylund. Johnson even relays that that information was “classified” in Halo 2, and so it was never mentioned in any of the games since. It is here, in the "Castle", that several Spartan-II soldiers, enhanced genetically and equipped with high tech armour, have managed to survive.