I think I started reading the Halo novels right after I picked up the Halo Graphic Novel in 2006. That year the fourth Halo novel, Halo: Ghosts of Onyx by Eric Nylund, came out. I read that and then picked up the previous three books and read those too. After that I’ve been picking up every Halo novel day-one and devouring them. There were seven main series novels, all by different authors (three by Eric Nylund), then the Forerunner Trilogy by Greg Bear and now a full trilogy by Karen Traviss. That makes Halo: Mortal Dictata number thirteen. All I have to say is WOW!
I'm excited too, but amazon tells me January 21st is the release date. Am I being kept from teh haloz?!
It was listed in the new release section of Barnes and Noble's web site that I look at every week, so I went to the store and, yes, you're right, they told me the 21st. Why do they list it then THIS week?
Back in high school in the early aughts, I read halfway through The Fall of Reach. It was a far away football game and I borrowed it from someone that had brought it with him but was more social than me lol. I never finished it but I liked what I read. I've since picked up a copy and anothe of Nyland's books, First Strike, (thanks, Goodwill!) but I haven't read them yet. Hard to believe there are thirteen already. That works out to, what, one a year?
Just about. I was surprised to learn the first novel, Fall of Reach, came out in 2001, one month before the game. In thinking about this, I might have read the first trilogy of books just before Halo 2 came out in 2004. If you experienced the books and the games together than the chronology would be this: Fall of Reach, Halo: C.E./The Flood, First Strike, Halo 2.
The art on the book cover is the coolest I've seen among all the novels, it looks like a Dream Theatre album cover.
I've read 5 of the novels and liked them all, I need to get Primordium, Silentium, and Thursday War still.
I think my favorites so far are still Fall of Reach and then Contact Harvest.
I think the title sounds funny, but it looks interesting.
It sounded even funnier when I had to ask a Barnes and Noble salesperson because I couldn't find it on the shelves. I could just imagine her thinking, "You nerd."
The first pronunciation I had in my head would have required you to snap your fingers and bob your head a bit when asking. The second sounded like the name of an encyclopedia. I'm guessing you went with the encyclopedia pronunciation.
(First pronunciation: Dick tada (first a is long), second: Dick tada (first a is short)
I almost said Dictum because all the Greg Bear books' titles end with "um": Cryptum, Primordium, and Silentium. I had to say it in my head a few times before I opened my mouth. I used the long "a" sound which seems to be right according to Wiktionary.
Well ... guess you should have bobbed your head and snapped your fingers when asking.
Now I'm not sure what "long a" sounds like. Dic-tay-da? 'Cause maybe I used the short "a". Why didn't she just call the book Mortal Lessons.
Yeah, I meant like the a in hate for long a, the a in hat for short. Maybe I got the two mixed up, though.
Ok then I used the short one. Wiktionary used the "a" with the dash above it (not sure how to type that). I need to lookup what that means.
Pretty sure that's long a. And I should correct myself, the short a I was thinking of sounds like the o in octopus. Dick tah da.
and the Halo Universe just keeps on expanding, much like our real universe some say...
At this point though I'm going to have to check a flow chart to make sure I read all these books in order. It's why I had a hard time reading Battletech back in the day.
I was just looking at a Warhammer book on the shelves while I was waiting for my Halo book. That's some crazy stuff too and goes way deep into it's own... story.