Halo: The Fall of Reach

Eric Nylund

Jan 2019 · Halo Book 1 · Simon and Schuster · Narrated by Todd McLaren

About this audiobook

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.

Ratings and reviews

Aside from the fact that the game Reach makes this now non-cannon, it's a must read for any Halo fan, or just Sci-Fi fan. You require zero knowledge of the Halo Universe. Overall it's an OUTSTANDING Sci-fi novel on it's own merits, and it's a great story and addition to the Halo Universe as well. There's really no bad here. I can't see a reason not to read this.

I've been a fan since Halo 2 came out on the beefy XBOX. i listened to this audiobook while I was working. this book is by far the best BOOK! that I've listened to or read. Now I know about the Spartans and halsey. Best book before the rings came into play including the covenant.

Honestly I love a good sc-ifi book and world. I'm a huge fan of Star Wars. Halo is also awesome and creative. This book made me feel good

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.