Eric S. Nylund
Paperback | Pages: 383 pages Rating: 4.16 | 10598 Users | 332 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Ghosts of Onyx |
| ISBN: | 0765354705 (ISBN13: 9780765354709) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Halo #4 |
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Continuing the saga of the award-winning Xbox(TM) game!The Spartan-II program has gone public. Tales of super-soldiers fending off thousands of Covenant attacks have become the stuff of legend.
But just how many Spartans are left?
While the Master Chief defends a besieged Earth, and the myriad factions of the Covenant continue their crusade to eliminate humanity, an ultrasecret cell of the Office of Naval Intelligence known as "Section Three" devises a plan to buy the UNSC vital time. They're going to need hundreds of willing soldiers, though . . . and one more Spartan to get the job done.
The planet Onyx is virtually abandoned and the perfect place to set this new plan in motion. But when the Master Chief destroys Halo, something is triggered deep within Onyx: Ancient Forerunner technology stirs, and fleets of UNSC and Covenant race to claim it to change the course of the Human-Covenant War.
But this reawakened and ancient force may have plans of its own . . .
This novel is based on a mature-rated game.
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Present Appertaining To Books Halo: Ghosts of Onyx (Halo #4)
| Title | : | Halo: Ghosts of Onyx (Halo #4) |
| Author | : | Eric S. Nylund |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 383 pages |
| Published | : | April 3rd 2007 by Tor Books (first published 2006) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction. Games. Video Games. Fantasy. Science Fiction Fantasy. Novels. Sports and Games |
Rating Appertaining To Books Halo: Ghosts of Onyx (Halo #4)
Ratings: 4.16 From 10598 Users | 332 ReviewsWrite Up Appertaining To Books Halo: Ghosts of Onyx (Halo #4)
Ghosts of Onyx is a bit of a return to form for Nylund. I found the characterisation in Halo: First Strike a bit tepid, especially that of Spartan John-117 (Master Chief). Ghosts is reminiscent of Halo: The Fall of Reach in some aspects, notably the training of a new generation of Spartans. The book also dispenses with featuring Master Chief as the protagonist. Its a fairly solid novel, and a continuation of the Halo story-line, albeit parallel to the arc featuring Master Chief.I suppose it hasGhosts of Onyx is a bit of a return to form for Nylund. I found the characterisation in Halo: First Strike a bit tepid, especially that of Spartan John-117 (Master Chief). Ghosts is reminiscent of Halo: The Fall of Reach in some aspects, notably the training of a new generation of Spartans. The book also dispenses with featuring Master Chief as the protagonist. Its a fairly solid novel, and a continuation of the Halo story-line, albeit parallel to the arc featuring Master Chief.I suppose it has
Mindless but not very entertaining; really a rather dreadful little book. If I were reading a hardcopy I would have dropped it after about 50 pages.*It makes one appreciate the skills of Heinlein or Haldeman (or - by hearsay, in my case - Bujold and Scalzi) when it comes to military SF. Aside from the extraordinarily clunky writing style, the greatest sin Monsieur Nylund commits is not being able to tell a story well. He has no conception of pacing (or he doesn't evidence it here). Novels have
This book is a very great one actually its more than a book its a world, because you can see many stories in every character. Seeing how they got where they were before the event took place, i like this story mostly because i feel like i am meeting new people. So this is a really amazing story as i feel like remembering the first time i met someone new in my life. So when you read this book you could feel like you are some where else in your life knowing how they are feeling. I also like the way
A knowadge of the xbox games Halo 1 and Halo 2 is a must if you want to read this without that you'd be lost.Some good action parts but there is allot of techno talk that is confusing and near the begining of the book the chapters jump forward several months in time making it hard to follow.The story itself was kind of hard to follow Nyland made it a hard read/listen, and I wanted to just put it down but I wanted to finish it just for the sake of being able to say I finished it.I did discover
Halo:Ghosts of Onyx is one of the books in the massive Halo franchise, in this book it shows the development of the spartan 3 program, this program featured children being genetically engineered when they were children instead of the spartan 2 program which was train them when they were children and when they reached near adulthood then they engineered them.The new spartan 3 program proved to be more successful than the spartan 2 and with each batch(about 300) there were only 2 or 3 casualties
This was a great wrap up to Eric Nylunds contributions to the Halo line up. Action, excitement, cliff hangers; his usual style. Well written.
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