| Halo: The Fall of Reach Contributor(s): Nylund, Eric (Author), McLaren, Todd (Read by) |
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ISBN: 1508284873 ISBN-13: 9781508284871 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio OUR PRICE: $35.99 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: January 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Science Fiction - Military - Fiction | Science Fiction - Action & Adventure - Fiction | Media Tie-in |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Halo Series, 1 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.8" W x 5.6" (0.70 lbs) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 is 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. And 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): McLaren, Todd: - Todd McLaren, an Earphones Award-winning narrator, was involved in radio for more than twenty years in cities on both coasts, including Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. He left broadcasting for a full-time career in voice acting, where he has been heard on more than five thousand television and radio commercials, as well as television promos; narrations for documentaries on such networks as A&E, Discovery, and the History Channel; and films, including Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Nylund, Eric: - 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. |