So, I started reading books

[Agmen of Eladesor]

Okay, time to do some digging here:

First, Robert A. Heinlein. Just because he's been dead for 20 years now don't make his classics any less. He has many 'juveniles'. Podkayne of Mars, Rocket Ship Gallileo, Star Beast, to name a few. Then when you're a bit older, Time Enough For Love, and THE classic sci-fi book, Stranger in a Strange Land.

Grok it!

For space ship combat, nobody does it better than David Weber. Start with 'On Basilisk Station' in the Honor Harrington series, and keep on going. You'll understand why I reference the Chertwell Convention sometimes.

John Ringo - A Hymn Before Battle, and the rest of the Aldenata series. Go, Bun Bun! (I'd recommend the Ghost series, but I'm not sure how kinky you are - and that series isn't science fiction.)

Eric Flint - 1632 and the series that follows up after that.

David Drake - the Belisaurius series

And then the David Weber Prince Roger series...

Harry Turtledove does in depth alternate history, but after a while, he got ... stale.

(I have, in case you're wondering, an entire wall in my basement - 35' long - that is nothing but 6 foot tall bookshelves - and they're mostly full.)

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Oh god... The end of days... Agmen agreed with me.

[ivr56]

Contact Harvest
Fall of Reach
Flood (During H1)
First Strike (Before H2)
Ghosts of Onyx (Between H2 and H3)

Read in that order if you want chronological order

First Strike is a great read.
Fall of Reach good read also but I would read it first, will give you more background information for First Strike.

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[cobraSting]

Halo does suck massive eggs of a hen

Whoever says this is full of crap and has obviously has never played the games or payed attention to the storyline. Honestly, the plot of Halo is one of the more epic in terms of Sci-fi genre, and if you disagree, I suggest you seek a therapist.

[Fletcher]

Whoever says this is full of crap and has obviously has never played the games or payed attention to the storyline. Honestly, the plot of Halo is one of the more epic in terms of Sci-fi genre, and if you disagree, I suggest you seek a therapist.

The first game's lore was epic, no question, I fell in love because of it. But the games afterwards tended to butcher and dull down the lore so the kids could understand better. Aliens learning English so they can understand us better? In the Contact Harvest book, they wanted to exterminate them, find the Halo's and turn them on like a big lightbulb of doom.

The lore in Halo Wars... odd to say the least but it tried not to damage it, but extend it that was ok.
Halo 2, grrr. Not a good bridge between 1 & 3.
Halo 3 tried to tie up some loose ends, and you had to hunt around for the terminals for the gamers to get into the lore, but it wasn't really conveyed. It wasn't a story, it was blasting aliens. True its a game, but RPG's have been able to do it for ages. Fallout 3 did an amazing job and its a hybrid! (not a Prius of hell).

True, the games cannot be great mediums for lore, but Freelancer, Fallout and Final Fantasy games, not to mention Homeworld, have done so to great lengths and I dare say success.

Halo is a good Sci-fi sub-genre. Refreshing from the Star-Wars, Trek lovechilds. But the games after 1 didn't do it justice. The book I've read, did wonders. I need to start reading Fall of Reach.

Yes, I need to see a therapist, but I may scare him and bite him in hunger for food.

I can banter some more, I'm Welsh, its our bloody job. :P

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[Marburg]

I could've left well enough alone, but I disagree & I don't need to see a therapist & that type of thinkin' is all in your head.

I played Halo 1 & 2 and you know what? there ain't nothin' special about it.

I mean sure, if I haven't already played a million games like it I'd probably be just as easily wowed, but after seeing what i've seen, it takes ALOT more than what halo has to offer to make me start going weak at the knees.

What else ya got boyo?

::edit- Oops...Oh yeah, books. Umm, so yeah...if you like the halo books, then good on ya...read more::

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[Kazinsal]

The Da Vinci Code was a very good book, in my opinion. I suggest you give it a read.

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Retired, permanently.

[jetblack357]

You need to read The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams.

Thats a good book, the H.P. Lovecraft books are also interesting.

[Fletcher]

Well I'm now halfway through The Fall of Reach; its a good insight into the SPARTAN program and the Spartans themselves. Its a good read so far and I'm finding it hard to put it down.

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[The_Scarlet_Pimpernel]

Classic school stuff, but good short reads anyway:

For whom the bell tolls (Hemingway)
Of mice and men (Steinbeck)


Some SciFi

Sphere (Michael Crichton)
Fiasco (Stanislav Lem) -A bit long and you will need some patience
The Dark Tower (series of books by Steven King)


If ur interested in african writers

Things Fall Apart (Achebe)
Stars of the new Curfew (Ben Okri)


Various:
Miss Smilla's feeling for Snow (Peter Hoeg)
The Stranger (Albert Camus)

[Fletcher]

I've recently finished reading "The Fall of Reach". A great book too, gave me great insights into the Spartans, Captain Keyes and Dr Halsey, the mother of the Spartan II program. It also made me envisage the space conflicts a lot better, and the deep tragedies that befall the colonies and her men and women in the UNSC.

Cortana was also portrayed very well, now I know why the Chief is so really attached to her.

Now, on to read "The Flood", even though I'm being advised not too...

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