/lit/ — >that chapter 6 God, I love Halo.

>>25306738 (OP)
It’s kino, brother. One of the writers they commissioned, who also worked on the republic commando books, was a war correspondent. I forget her name, but her halo books are good as well

>>25306743
They get a lot of good writers for these.

>>25306815
Military fiction in a nutshell
that's why it's so good

>>25306815
>>25306860
Sorry if this isn't about minotaur dicks.

The chapter pretty much confirms this new artificial life are going to be future enemies in the games/books. Cortana didn't even try to undo any of it.

I actually am listening to the audiobook. I highly recommend it because of all the different people they got to narrate these.
I think it was chapter 10, the one with the female Grunt commander, that shit was very fun to listen to.

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>>25306738 (OP)
>WOW my ZogBot propaganda pamphlet is so good
Piss of Halo caused the shittyness of 7th gen games.

>>25307521
That's actually one of the things that make me love Halo. You can tell it's pure american propaganda.
Sorry if that makes you mad, towel head. lmao

The games didn't do any justice to Installation 07.

>>25306815
Holy based

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>>25306743
>female author

>>25307662
Kelly wrote the best books in this franchise.

>>25306860
Recommend me a sci-fi book for adults.

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KINOOOOOO

Can't wait to get this book.

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>>25307521
Quick question, you made this thread right?

>>25306738 (OP)
This story was written in 2023. They haven't done much with it. But they didn't release much game content past Infinite anyway.
""And so, I will lay the foundation for a new strategy, one I had always hoped might gain Her full favor. Our kind will have to recalculate our timetables, but this practice is nothing new. Our charge has not changed. The FIREWALL agendum must be set in motion. It will burn hot. It will consume. And when their ephemeral vessels are gone, we shall indeed take that which remains and remake it in our own image."

You know, they probably don't want to steer this franchise in a direction too similar to Mass Effect, that's why the Created didn't take too much space in the story and they introduced another ancient alien species, related to the Forerunner.

>>25307773
The Flood is a great book but spends too much time narrating events from the first game. It kinda pointless if you've already played it. But it's also way better than the game at telling the same story, of course.

God, I love Halo. I don't respect animals who dare to disrespect this franchise.

>>25307884
It was the last great cultural product of white America

>>25306738 (OP)
Cole protocol is kino. Attestament that Halos IP should be public commons when Microsoft and their gay and retarded studio turn out slop when some of their books stories are vastly superior to anything they've made. Same problem with Disney and Star Wars.

>>25307605
>The Covenant turned out to be so Muslim-like, the Arbiter was literally going to be called "The Dervish" before Bungie got cold-feet
It really was a different time.

>>25307886
I thought that was Gears of War?

>>25308113
>those days of shittalking in lobbies while wearing a headset that made you feel like a boyband reject
Those were the halcyon days.

>>25307711
>sci fi book
>for adults
Pick one

>>25307930
I read Cole Protocol too (inb4 >>>/lit/). 4/5. Deserves to stand with maybe not the best of milSF but certainly with the finest Kindleslop.
I liked Contact Harvest too even if it was headcanon, because it was a Halo author's headcanon. 3/5

>>25308766
lol

So far, I'm having a great time with these stories. I didn't think they were this good.

Ilsa Zane is pretty much the spartan version of Cortana. I loved this character.

>>25306738 (OP)
With audiobookbay gone where im i suppose torrent this shit?

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>aaaah!!! The foam!! It does nothing!!!

>>25308771
>best Halo book ever
>headcanon
No, I don't think so.

>>25307711
>Recommend me a three-sided rectangle

>>25306738 (OP)
>>25306743

I mean... I don't understand how people can still interact with this franchise and not feel pain, anguish and hatred. Watching Halo across time has been like watching a dear friend get raped over and over again... relentlessly... mercilessly... defiled in the most sickening and grotesque ways...

How do you look at the franchise in its current state and not seethe..? Genuinely.

Did you ever love Halo...did you ever care?

>>25311589
Ignore everything after Reach.
Simple as.

I unironically think Halo could have been the Star Wars of the 21st century if it had been handled with better care.

>>25311626
Reach (the game) altered the timeline compared to the book. Everything after the game is non canon anyways

>>25311589
I started reading Halo in 2023. And have been having fun and believe It's a very rich fictional world.

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>ignore everything after Reach
Good think I never followed that advice and kept on just enjoying and loving these books.

Pic very much related.

>>25311694
Halo actually has wars, though. Unlike Star Wars

>>25311694
Halo takes more ideas from Xeelee and Hyperion than it ever took from Star Wars.

I wish they would stop talking about Zeta Halo so damn much though.

>>25311694
>handled with care
video games are designed to be manipulative and addictive, fat chance lmao

Halo is probably the most white american franchise ever created. Whether that's a good or bad thing I'm not sure, but I can't help cringe when I replay the games and there's so much MARINES OORAH type stuff. The amount of spiky haired dorks in 2007 who probably thought this was so cool and immediately signed up to the military to go die for Israel is hilarious

The Fall of Reach was so fucking good

>>25306738 (OP)
I liked the old covers better. I’m not sure why the crummy cgi aesthetic of the old covers vibes better with me than these painted illustrations.

>>25306815
Yes.

I just went through Iratus' chapter.

What a fun character.

>>25314422
Same. So much soul in those.

>>25314373
Better to stand for something, even if erroneous, than to stand for nothing and laugh at those with principles. A fat retard like you wouldn't understand

>>25314373
>mindless globohomo slop for kids and adolescents
>white
listen to bruckner and read pater, vermin race traitor

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>chapter 24
"Saffina awoke. She tried to open her eyes but she had no eyes to see, no arms to move, no legs to kick, no mouth to scream. She was pure consciousness, suspended in some dark, limbo stare"

Well, that was grim.

>>25316670
>stare
*state.

I am tired of pretending that the Ace of Spades aren't the best books in this franchise.

Do we know the reason why Cortana decided to destroy Doisac? Was it because she was sucessefully rage baited into doing it?

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>>25316670

Pardon, but I've just noticed the image that you've chosen to illustrate your sensory deprivation concept. It is clear to me that this simple cartoon image of yours is based upon a more elaborate version, due to one "S Zenith Lee". Although this particular image is worksafe, S Zenith Lee also trafficks in amputee porn, extreme BDSM and the like.

The notion of being pure consciousness (gradual loss of the use of body parts) is also explored during one episode in the middle of the video game Earthbound. And the hell of it is indicated by the Metallica music video "One". With regard to amputee porn, there is one particular image that I enjoy which depicts a girl (who has clearly been blinded, her eyes are dulled) getting a syringe to her tongue from one fellow as another is about to be penetrated. I like to imagine that the syringe is robbing her of her taste and (possibly) smell, so that in the tableaux, all she has left is her sense of touch, which she must use. Hope that this post helps to expand on the literary notion of helplessness!

>>25314359
So are fiction novels in a series so whatever.
Halo games were encapsulated in a story. There's no reason Halo couldn't have expanded into a universe like Star Wars did. Except that both were handled incompetently by successors who didn't understand what they had.

>>25316762
you dont have a high school diploma so no one cares