Halo: The Flood
Written by William C. Dietz
Narrated by Todd McLaren
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As the fortress world of Reach and its brave defenders were bombarded to rubble, a single cruiser fled the carnage with the battle's only human survivors-Captain Keyes, his crew of a few hundred marines, and the last remaining SPARTAN super-soldier, the Master Chief.
With the cruiser's artificial intelligence, Cortana, concealed in his battle armor, the Master Chief crash-lands on Halo in the midst of a massive Covenant occupation. Curiously, the alien soldiers appear to be searching for something hidden on the ring. Built by a long-dead race, Halo harbors many deadly secrets, but one overshadows them all. Now the Master Chief must lead the scattered troops in a brutal race to unravel Halo's darkest mystery-and unleash its greatest source of power.
William C. Dietz
William C. Dietz is the New York Times bestselling author of more than fifty novels, including Halo: The Flood, StarCraft: Heaven’s Devils, and the Legion of the Damned series. He grew up in the Seattle area, served as a medic with the Navy and the Marines, and graduated from the University of Washington. Dietz worked as a surgical technician, a news writer, a college instructor, a television producer, and a director of public relations for an international telephone company prior to embarking on a full-time writing career. Visit his website at WilliamCDietz.com.
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Reviews for Halo
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Well if you like playing games and re=playing them through reading this is the book for you if not go read a book like starship troopers. It is like play reading a video game.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I liked the other Halo titles I've read better. While the plot was good, there just wasn't much as far as character development. Like the video game, there were a lot of fight scenes, and they just seemed detailed and repetitive. That sort of thing works well in a video game, but it didn't add anything to the plot of the book.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Read this purely because I loved the game. Nice to step into that world but as this part was a direct copy of the story of the game it was not as good as the others.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The second book in the Halo novelizations closely follows the first Halo game. The novel provides further information regarding the Covenant forces during Halo (in one instance following the grunt Yayap in his series of misadventures while trying to stay alive). The story has slow pacing in areas, noticeably during the 'lone wolf' adventures of John-117 and once the Flood are let out. Other sections provide greater insight into the marines' actions on the ground, their base and skirmishes with the covenant, and how UNSC military personnel react to highly stressful conditions. Ultimately the novel was a quick read with a story that was easy to visualize as it did its best to stay true to the game.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The Fall of Reach and First Strike by Eric Nylund were superior works, this novelization of the game just is not as good.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Halo combat evolved:The flood-Eric NyuldThe book is based on the popular Xbox game, halo: combat evolved. The story is about a super soldier, ‘Spartan 117’ or as most people call him ‘master chief’. Held in the year 2552, it starts of in the pillar of autumn. This is a space station that master chief is in. The space station is attacked and invaded by An alien covenant that they have been in war with for many years. He then has no choice but to fight his way to an escape pod, as there is too much aliens to defend the station. He is guided by a computer A.I, Cortana. After escaping they land on installation 04 or ‘halo’ (meaning ring).I think that the book was full of adventure and excitement. The plot is very well set out it contains lots of mysteries that left me in suspense and made me want to read more. It is part of a series of books. After I finished reading it, I wanted to buy more books of the series. The characters are very well developed and are unique in their own way. I enjoyed the book like T.V show or a movie. I would recommend it for teenagers who are a fan of the game or who like action-packed adventures.In conclusion it is a very well constructed book and my rating for it would be 5/5.-Review by Denzel Inciong
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great book that shows more sides of the story. If you liked the games you will.like this!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Halo combat evolved:The flood-Eric NyuldThe book is based on the popular Xbox game, halo: combat evolved. The story is about a super soldier, ‘Spartan 117’ or as most people call him ‘master chief’. Held in the year 2552, it starts of in the pillar of autumn. This is a space station that master chief is in. The space station is attacked and invaded by An alien covenant that they have been in war with for many years. He then has no choice but to fight his way to an escape pod, as there is too much aliens to defend the station. He is guided by a computer A.I, Cortana. After escaping they land on installation 04 or ‘halo’ (meaning ring).I think that the book was full of adventure and excitement. The plot is very well set out it contains lots of mysteries that left me in suspense and made me want to read more. It is part of a series of books. After I finished reading it, I wanted to buy more books of the series. The characters are very well developed and are unique in their own way. I enjoyed the book like T.V show or a movie. I would recommend it for teenagers who are a fan of the game or who like action-packed adventures.In conclusion it is a very well constructed book and my rating for it would be 5/5.-Review by Denzel Inciong
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The plot goes like this: Master Chief kills something, runs around, kills something, talks to Cortana, kills stuff, kills, kills, kills, has an emotion for two sentances, kills stuff. There are maybe five lines of introspection or charactarization in the whole book, but that's not why you're reading it of course. You're reading it because you play Halo and can't get enough Master Chief and Covenant and AIs and what-have-you.Yet, even next to some of the other Halo novels this one is pretty kill-heavy. However, it's probably the best of the lot I've read since, compared to the minus 11 tidbits of emotion the rest of the novels toss you, this one is fairly packed with pathos to get off on.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book takes place a few weeks after the fall of Reach(The last book). A ship called the Pillar of Autum comes out of slip-space and its corridnates brought it to a Halo like structure. Their captin, Keyes, decides to wake the Master Cheif(Spartan-117, XXX,John) from cryo-sleep. To their demise, a Covenant ship followed the and sent a boarding party their way. When the Autum was taken, the battle took place on the Halo array. After a few hard fought battles, a new alien race was releaced into the fray, the Flood. One thing was clear, Master Cheif had to destroy the array. I like this book because, once again, it is based off my favorite game saga, Halo. I also like this book because it is a Si-Fi novel. I like the future books because it could happen. The last Spartan remaining would fight 2 alien races who would do anything to kill the humans and destroy Earth. I would recomed this book to Si-Fi readers. If i were in John's shoes, i would do the last thing i know, survive. War ravages everyone.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I could have gone without reading this book. It was a total waste of time and money. I have never played the game, Halo, but I can imagine it is much like reading the book. After thousands of kills of Grunts, Jackals, Hunters, Wraiths, then the Flood, well, it got really boring. By the end of the book I was hating the Master Chief. How boring can it be reading someone trying to describe the action of the game. There was little plot at all. I want my money back! I give it a one star for the plot.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Based on the video game Halo, and not nearly as interesting as the prequel, [Halo: Fall of Reach], this is about as dull as watching someone play a video game (or watching grass grow). Fans might enjoy it, but for the rest of us, BORING.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5First of all, I am a big fan of science fiction writing, and I also really enjoyed Halo (the video game). With that said, this book was terrible. The writing was incredibly "blah" and it was next to impossible for me to read more than ten pages at a sitting because I would get so fed up with the writing style. I can't see myself reading anything else by William C. Dietz.